Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt Directorate - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £50,155 - £65,950
  • National £50,155 to £60,781 Inner London £55,149 to £65,950
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DWP
  • Service Excellence
  • Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt
    Type of role:
  • Operational Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 2Contents
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  • Birmingham, Dudley, Harrow, Ilkeston, WalthamstowAbout the job

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Location
Posts are available at the following locations

Post - Harrow (Kings House), Walthamstow (Forest Road),

Post - Birmingham Arena Central, Ilkeston JCP, Dudley (Pedmore House)


Summary


Are you interested in safeguarding the public purse? Are you motivated to deliver the right outcomes in challenging situations? DWP could be the place for you.

This is a hugely important public service and our challenge is bigger than ever.


You will be at the forefront of tackling serious and organised crimes against DWP which often has links into wider criminality of modern slavery, human trafficking, and identity fraud.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Counter Fraud and Compliance Directorate (CFCD) on a team committed to tackling fraud encountered through our Economic, Serious and Organised Crime (ESOC) team.


You will work across multi law enforcement agencies on high profile and serious fraud operations involving many suspects in multi-million-pound criminality.

DWP Serious and Organised Crime (SOC) Strategy compliments and aligns with the Home Office SOC Strategy


Its objectives are to:

  • Maintain a clear and coherent intelligence picture of the threat to inform our investigations, capability development and protect and prevent strategies
  • Promote our successful operations both internally and externally to deter and prevent further criminality
  • Exploit a range of data sources to identify and respond to threats
  • Engage with stakeholders across DWP, HMG, Law Enforcement, and partners to shape policy, operations, and capability development
  • Maintain and invest in our capabilities to stay ahead of the threat.

Job description:


  • What you will be doing as either an Economic Crime Group or Serious and Organised Crime Regional Leader:
  • Role model exceptional leadership, working flexibly across boundaries, building capability, and undertaking regular activity to build and sustain engagement.
  • Provide transformational leadership to the team and beyond inspiring colleagues through demanding situations, transforming performance, and building high performing teams.
  • Play a key role as a member of the Senior Leadership team to deliver and shape the direction of ESOC, working flexibly and at pace in a complex in a fastmoving environment.
  • Through your behaviour and role modelling, strive to make ESOC an inclusive place where people can be their best. By inspiring and empowering the Leadership Teams to lead their people and deliver ESOC strategic and business objectives and priorities.
  • Drive people engagement across the team, setting ambitious standards for people leadership throughout the business.
  • Communicating at all levels and across the unit to personally lead culture change, fostering and embedding a climate of staff development and continual professional development, for yourself and teams.
  • Provide visible, accessible and effective senior leadership, taking a personal lead in communicating messages with clarity and conviction across your own team and with other colleagues. Seeking feedback from colleagues, listening and acting on this.
  • Coordinate the development of businesscritical relationships, internally and with key partners and stakeholders e.g. law enforcement agencies. Working cross government to deliver national initiatives combatting serious and organised crime, including human trafficking and modern slavery.

Person specification:


You will be accountable for creating an environment to support the delivery of excellent, high-quality service and performance nationally across a number of sites/geographical areas.


In addition, ensuring work is prioritised to meet changing demands and that colleagues are supported with excellent training and guidance.


You will be responsible for driving performance in investigations and other activities to protect the public purse and disrupt organised crime groups at the earliest opportunity, including supporting the Senior Investigating Officer in large or high-profile operations.


You will oversee high quality investigations targeted at the highest harm threats leading to judicial outcomes, disruptions, and asset recovery.

You will be accountable for the management of investigations, performance and service delivery within their teams, undertaking regular performance reviews, identifying risks to performance achievement and drivin
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