Job Description

Details

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Reference number

429832

Salary

81,000 - 91,000
Standard Cabinet Office rules on pay will apply to civil servants appointed on level transfer or promotion. Their salary will increase to the minimum of the SCS PB1 range or by a promotion award of up to 10% more than their current basic salary excluding all allowances (whichever is the greater). Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing basic salary excluding all allowances.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Communications Directorate

Type of role

Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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London

About the job

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Job summary

The Communications Directorate plays a critical role in delivering the critical areas of policy which the Home Office leads - keeping the streets safe and borders secure. This involves helping the department to spot and mitigate risks and deliver attitude and behaviour change that ultimately supports the security and economic prosperity of the UK.


The leadership team ensures there is a diverse, motivated and capable team in place to deliver this work, as well as providing support to the Permanent Secretaries and senior officials to deliver the Home Office's organisational strategy and build engagement among the Home Office workforce.

Job description

To be successful in this role, you will need to be able to draw on deep communications experience and a resilient, learning-orientated mindset as the basis of your professional and personal authority in a highly complex, contested and demanding area of public service.


As deputy director, the successful candidate will support the director in setting and maintaining outstanding professional standards in campaign delivery, leading leaders across all the communications disciplines, as well as continuing to grow team capability as challenges evolve.

For further information, please review the attached Candidate Pack.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high

standard against the following key criteria:

An expert senior strategic advisor -

Influencing and advising ministers and senior officials, to ensure the audience voice is properly heard and a 'whole system', Mission-led approach is in place to meet core communications objectives across Secure Borders communications campaigns.

Campaign strategic direction and delivery

- Design and evolve strategic campaigns derived from the annual departmental communications strategy and wider Government Communications Plan. Support the director in using programme frameworks to set and maintain outstanding professional standards in campaign delivery.

Building capability

- Support and promote learning and development, effective performance management and staff retention and recruitment of diverse talent across one or more functional areas. Support the director's continuous improvement projects across GCS linked to the Home Office's role as a pathfinder department for GCS programmes.

Crisis response

- Lead communications teams in a crisis, have excellent awareness of the media environment and HMG crisis structures, with the personal resilience to provide direction and support over a sustained period.

Ownership of culture, behaviour, and values

- Set the culture of the communications function and its role in supporting the Home Office and its collaborative, compassionate, courageous, respectful and curious values. Exemplify GCS and wider Civil Service propriety and ethics standards.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 81,000, Home Office contributes 23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using

examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and

discussed with candidates invited for interview.

Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the

panel only have limited information on which to assess your application

against the criteria in the person specification.

A

CV -

setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years; A

Statement of Suitability -

(limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.




Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.




As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .



See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Rob Hall Email : robert.hall27@homeoffice.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

* Email : scsrecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk