Assistant Planning & Investment Manager
Department for Transport
About the job
Job summary
We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Would you embrace the opportunity to be involved in a range of projects at various stages of their lifecycle?
Are you an organised individual who can effectively manage conflicting priorities whilst meeting deadlines?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity available and would love to hear from you!
Job description
As Assistant Planning and Investment Manager, you will join the Rail Services Group, who plays a crucial role in developing and delivering railway enhancements. You will contribute to a diverse range of projects in an ever evolving and exciting environment.
Within this role your responsibilities will include streamlining processes and tools related to risk management, milestone tracking, lesson management, and governance. You will also manage a programme board, organising and facilitating meetings to ensure high-quality information is provided to board members and that minutes and actions are accurately recorded.
Utilising your positive interpersonal skills, you will regularly engage with delivery bodies, developing effective working relationships. Therefore, enabling you to ensure that the right information is available at the right time to effectively monitor development and delivery.
If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Facilitating risk, milestone and lessons management, and arrangements for governance and decision-making.
- Working with delivery bodies to ensure that timely information is available, and leading on regular reporting for projects managed by the team.
- Advising and briefing senior officials and Ministers within the Department and providing accurate, concise, credible and timely responses to Parliamentary Questions and official correspondence.
- Providing support to the team in action tracking.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.
Person specification
About you
You will be comfortable working within a fast-paced and complex environment and will have experience of working within projects and programmes, with an understanding of project management tools and techniques.
You will be a highly organised individual who can effectively manage numerous conflicting tasks and re-prioritise to achieve deadlines when required. You will display proactivity and a willingness to take on tasks and drive them to completion.
You will be an articulate communicator, both verbally and in writing, with the ability to prepare high quality briefings. You will enjoy engaging with a range of internal and external stakeholders, using your interpersonal skills to foster positive working relationships.
Additional Information
This role is available to individuals who wish to be spending their office time in London, Leeds or Birmingham, and we would also expect the individual to be willing to occasionally travel to visit different locations relevant to the route.
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement (maximum 750 words) please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Experience of having worked within projects and programmes in a fast-paced and complex environment.
- Experience of engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of preparing high quality verbal and written communications.
The sift is due to take place from 27/06/2024.
Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 15/07/2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- an interview
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Document Accessibility
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This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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) (opens in a new window)
- 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
Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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.