Correspondence Lead - London, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £35,400
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Higher Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Policy Unit and Private Office
    Type of role:
  • Operational Delivery
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • LondonAbout the job

Job summary:


The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is driving forward the Government's key priority to level up every part of the United Kingdom, creating opportunity for everyone, regardless of where they live, and putting UK citizens at the heart of our work.

We aim to provide quick and helpful answers to correspondence and parliamentary questions.

The Parliamentary and Correspondence teams handle the Department's replies to correspondence and parliamentary questions on behalf of Ministers, and we are looking for one sub-team leader to oversee and boost our performance.

This role will hold responsibility for a specific sub-team within the unit, working in Ministerial correspondence.


Job description:


This role will include:
- setting a culture of high performance and continuous improvement and development
- using data and feedback to understand and drive performance
- delivering our improvement strategy
- fostering a positive and inclusive work environment
- managing a small team responsible for delivering correspondence
- managing relationships with Ministerial offices and policy teams
- quality assurance of team's work
- ensuring a consistently high standard of Ministerial correspondence, taking account of individual Ministers' preferences


Person specification:

- seeing the bigger picture; using individual cases to identify and analyse patterns within their team
- exercise leadership, adaptability, and drive
- passionate about written communication, critical thinking and people management.


Behaviours:

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

  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Changing and Improving
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £35,400, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £8,688 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 average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
    We are for everyone

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.


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


  • 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) - Managing a quality service

Behaviour - Changing and improving

Behaviour - Delivering at pace

Experience - _What experience do you have of leading the performance or output of a team in a management role?_

There is a 250 word limit per question.


The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:
Behaviour - Managing a quality service, Changing and improving, Delivering at pace


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

Behaviours:
Managing a quality service, Changing and improving, Delivering at pace


Strengths:
Yes


HEO salary
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The salary for this role is £35,400 (London):


BENEFITS:


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


GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:


  • London

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES:

Sifting is envisaged to take place from 25th March 2024 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.


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