Head of Honours and Public Appointments - Darlington, United Kingdom - Department of International Trade

Department of International Trade

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Darlington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for someone to lead a team of five within the Ministerial Strategy Directorate in the Department for International Trade, leading on Honours and Public Appointments strategy and delivery.

The person in this role will also take on project work on behalf of the wider governance function and sometimes wider Ministerial Strategy Directorate.

Job description

Take pride in directing a high performing team with a culture of exceptional customer service and continuous improvement.
Develop and utilise internal and external relationships with stakeholders to support the Departments Honours and Appointments functions.
Manage relationships with internal policy and sponsor teams, providing an advisory function for senior appointments and oversight for Non-Executive Board Members recruitment for the Departmental Board and its Committees.
Provide detailed timely highquality advice directly to Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, Honours Committee members and senior officials demonstrating sensible judgement about sensitive matters while maintaining confidentiality.
Manage an ongoing programme of delivery, with contending priorities, anticipating and acting quickly to escalate issues appropriately and to mitigate risk to the delivery of effective honours committees and senior level appointments.
Draw together and evaluate information and data to support effective evidencebased decisionmaking relating to honours nominations and appointments processes.

Hybrid working
Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average.

If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Be able to take the initiative, plan and prioritise an ongoing programme of work across competing areas and demands, and achieve testing goals at pace.
Have strong communication, customer service and relationship management skills and the selfassurance to lead on briefing Ministers, the Permanent Secretary, and Honours Committees.
Experience in drafting wellstructured and clear written information, including interpretation and use of data, at pace, strong attention to detail and a problemsolving mindset.
Use sound judgement to know when to engage in developing risks and opportunities, bringing matters to the attention of the Deputy Director, Ministers and Permanent Secretary where appropriate.
Ability to network with officials across the Department, keeping them engaged and bought into the appointments and honours processes as necessary.

Personal Attributes & Skills

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership
Making Effective Decisions
Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pensionwith an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

Vetting Requirements

SC
UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
Security Services records

Security
See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standardchecks.

Nationality requirements
Further information on nationality requirementsThis job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Codesets 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 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.

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veteransinitiative.

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