Job Description

Details

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Reference number

424159

Salary

40,669
The salary for this role is 44,319 (London) or 40,669 (National).




For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

3

Contents

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

Location

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Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton

About the job

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Job summary

Do you have exceptional written and oral communication skills? Do you bring strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your work along with desire to learn about social housing?


If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Stakeholder and Delivery Lead to join our team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and we'd love to hear from you!


At the Spending Review, the Government confirmed a new 10-year 39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP), kickstarting social and affordable housebuilding at scale across the country, sitting alongside the 12.3 billion 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) delivering affordable homes.


We are looking for three programme and policy professionals to join the Social and Affordable Homes Programme team, in key programme management and policy development roles across both programmes.


Role 1 (PMO role): Programme Manager (across AHP and SAHP), managing governance, assurance, risks and milestones. This role offers significant project delivery development opportunities, including exposure to delivery partners and stakeholders, and leading ensuring colleagues and delivery agencies apply programme professional skills and tools effectively. The Programme Manager will ensure SAHP is an exemplar across the Government Major Projects Portfolio, providing accountability to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented project professional seeking career development and to make a difference in their work.


Role 2 (Greater London Authority Delivery and Engagement role): Programme Manager, GLA delivery in London, including stakeholder and performance management, leading monthly stakeholder delivery and performance engagement, and building strong working relationships. The role includes risk management, leading on risk workstreams. A challenging and exciting opportunity, with monthly management information analysis and board preparation. This good development opportunity includes leading on finance engagement and completing quarterly payment sign off processes; along with drafting and providing timely updates for senior stakeholders.


Role 3 (Devolution, Policy and Engagement role): Policy Adviser, implementing the English Devolution White Paper commitment for Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities (EMSAs) to set the strategic direction of the SAHP in their area. The role holder will work with Homes England and EMSAs to communicate EMSA priorities to the social housing sector and potential bidders, oversee delivery to ensure EMSA priorities are reflected, and support longer term policy development on devolution of delivery. This is an exciting opportunity for a policy professional to work across social housing and English devolution policy areas.

Job description

As the Stakeholder and Delivery Lead your responsibilities will include:

Oversee monthly analysis of management information for programme boards. Contribute to risk management and lead on individual risk workstreams. Leading on drafting updates and delivery summaries to senior stakeholders and Ministers. Chair external meetings and build strong relationships with external stakeholders to drive delivery of programme objectives, including action log management. (PMO role) Ensuring effective programme governance and management across the 2021-26 AHP and SAHP, alongside maintaining products and processes to support the programme within the Government's Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP). (GLA Delivery role) A confident communicator, the candidate will use strong stakeholder and communication skills to engage with the agency and with finance colleagues, including the delivery of robust quarterly payment sign off processes. (Devolution, Policy and Engagement role) Oversee implementation of the policy approach to EMSAs, setting the strategic direction of the SAHP, and contribute to policy development to deepen devolution of delivery in the longer-term and related to the implementation and delivery of the new programme.

Person specification

We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey important messages respectfully to stakeholders and colleagues. Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, and act to reassess workloads and priorities when required. An ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with others to achieve common goals; a strong team player. Some project or programme management experience, ideally including Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) experience, which may also include risk management, governance or assurance experience (preferable: a project or programme qualification such as MSP, APM PMQ, Management of Risk) for both the GLA Delivery and PMO roles. Some policy experience is beneficial for all roles but particularly for the Devolution, Policy and Engagement role.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 40,669, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes 11,781 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

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

CV Declaration

As part of our pre-employment checking process, we will be using your CV to confirm your job history. Please note that by providing us with your CV you are consenting to us using the information enclosed as part of the checking process. Unless stated otherwise in the advert, your CV will not form part of the assessment but will be used for information purposes and only shared with the panel at interview stage.


Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system - this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).


Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to each question rather than seeing a candidate's full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reducethis as much aspossible.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.


When writing your application, remember:

the assessor won't be reading your answers sequentially do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers if talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!)

At sift, we will be assessing

Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) - Communicating and Influencing


Behaviour 2 - Seeing The Big Picture


Behaviour 3 - Working Together


Behaviour 4 - Delivering at Pace


There is a 250 word limit per question.


In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:

Behaviour: Seeing The Big Picture, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at Pace


Strength: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.


Experience: The experience-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates

In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements:

Behaviours: Seeing The Big Picture, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at Pace


Strengths: Yes


Experience: Yes

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox - you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.

SEO salary

The salary for this role is

44,319 (London) or 40,669 (National).

For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges.

Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisation's terms and conditions.

BENEFITS

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Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018:

Any move to MHCLG from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk


For further information about the benefits available to MHCLG employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

Wolverhampton Darlington
Manchester Bristol London


There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role.

Please note:

The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service.

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack.

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES

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Sifting is envisaged to take place 05/09/2025 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.

Reserve List

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details in a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@communities.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list.

Security Clearance Requirements:

Important note

Please note that successful candidates will need to pass the CTC security checks - this requires you to have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Please refer to the MHCLG Notes on Security Clearance section of our Candidate Pack for further information on Counter Terrorism Clearance (CTC).

Candidates should also note that with effect from 1st August 2018 the department will also check all applicants who are successful at interview, against the Internal Fraud Database (IFD) held by the Cabinet Office. In accordance with the Civil Service Internal Fraud Policy, any applicant who is included on the IFD will be refused employment by MHCLG. Please see the Candidate Pack for further information on the Internal Fraud Database.

Candidate Pack Information

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. The candidate pack contains information about the CS Commissioners appeals and complaints procedure.

Before starting your application it's very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the MHCLG candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules

Internal Fraud Database

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to MHCLG as a participating government organisations. MHCLG then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.


For more information please see - Internal Fraud Register



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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 counter-terrorist 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 : Judith Flashman Email : judith.flashman@communities.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

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