Job Description

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Reference number

424394
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Salary

100,000
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 PB2 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
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Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2###

Contract type

Permanent###

Business area

HO - Public Safety Group###

Type of role

Senior leadership###

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share###

Number of jobs available

1

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

Location

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London, Manchester

About the job

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Job summary

The Home Office's Public Safety Group plays a vital role in keeping the public safe by cutting crime (including disrupting the most harmful offenders), tackling its root causes, bringing criminals to justice and protecting the vulnerable. At the heart of delivering the Government's Safer Streets Mission, we work closely with policing partners and the National Crime Agency to ensure frontline services are effective, efficient and responsive to public needs. To deliver this, we develop and implement policy, provide funding, deliver legislation and work with partners across the UK to ensure safer and stronger communities. We make the most of innovation, data and partnerships to prevent crime, protect the vulnerable and tackle the highest harm crimes.


This is a demanding strategic leadership role, tasked with delivering reform and transformation across a wide swathe of policing and law enforcement activities. In particular, the post holder will be accountable for managing the England and Wales policing budget, the largest in the Home Office. They will lead on the development and delivery of national level capabilities to support law enforcement, including directly overseeing and acting as the Home Office representative for a number of major law enforcement IT programmes and driving new work to ensure that policing can make the most of the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence. They will drive productivity across policing, supporting an ambitious programme, in close partnership with police colleagues, to deliver greater efficiencies among police forces. And, as part of a fundamental programme of police reform, they will act as the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the establishment of a new national centre to bring together functions currently housed across a range of parts of the police and law enforcement landscape.


The successful candidate will report into a newly established Director General for Policing who, along with the Director General for Safer Streets, will co-lead the Public Safety Group. The post holder will be part of a senior leadership team consisting of 10 SCS PB2s. It is expected the post holder will have approximately 4 direct reports at SCS PB1 level, oversight of 1 SCS PB2 and a wider directorate of around 120 staff.

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Job description

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Accountable for managing the policing budget and the police funding settlement which allocates funding to the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales. In 2025-26 this totalled 19.6bn. Drive productivity across policing and supporting the delivery of technical and allocative efficiencies within policing. This includes working to reduce burdens on policing and identify more efficient and effective ways of working for police officers and staff. Transforming policing through technology to support the Home Office's Safer Streets Mission. Developing and acquiring technology to enhance crime prevention, detection, and investigation, improve productivity, and foster better police-public interactions. Successful delivery of the Police Commercial Efficiencies and Collaboration Programme (PECP). Mobilised as part of our commitment to delivering the Safer Streets Mission it will tackle waste throughout the policing system, unlocking cashable savings to invest in priority areas driving improved outcomes for citizens. Design of the National Centre of Policing: including structure, capabilities, governance, development and implementation of necessary legislation. Oversight of the Home Office's overarching law enforcement IT programme (working in close partnership with Home Office Digital Data & Technology colleagues) including the Law Enforcement Digital Service and Police National Database. SRO responsibility of a Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) project to deliver ownership of the National Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Service (NAS). NAS is new technology that will replace the existing national and local ANPR systems within police forces to create a single national ANPR data set that all Forces can access. Co-ordinating the Home Office's important role within the criminal justice system through mapping demand flows across the criminal justice system, improving progression of case files from the police to CPS, enhancing the use of data within the CJS and the co-ordination of Home Office policy relating to victims of crime. Co-ordination of Home Office responsibilities in the planning and delivery of HM Government UK Major Events, such as state visits and major sporting events. ###

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:

First rate policy and strategic leadership skills with exceptional political judgement and integrity A significant track record of visible, inclusive and results-focused leadership, even in tough contexts, which inspires, develops and motivates staff to deliver and thrive Experience of delivering at pace and getting things done under pressure An ability to build and lead a diverse team from a range of backgrounds and organisations and bring together with commitment to a shared mission. Demonstrating an understanding of how to deliver transformation across a large system. Strong financial literacy and track record of success delivering value for money, with a demonstrable ability to engage effectively with both finance professionals and senior leaders. Strong Project Management skills and a track record of success in leading and managing major complex technical projects. If you have not already completed the Major Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA) course, you will be sponsored to do so. Excellent personal impact, resilience and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build sustainable relationships with a diverse range of operational partners.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 100,000, Home Office contributes 28,970 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%

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Selection process details

Online Application

Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than

23:55hrs on 07

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September 2025.

Provide some basic

personal information

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CV

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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;


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Statement of Suitability

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(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 developed vetting .



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

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.###

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 : Hannah Bailey Email : publicsafetydg@homeoffice.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

* Email : scsrecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk