About the job

Job summary

This role is to support business management across the centralised analytical department and/or the embedded out wider analytical community. Most of the work will be to provide support and advice to the Business Manager, Deputy Directors and their people or finance champions in all corporate areas. They will also support the analytical professions across all DBT teams (Economists, Statisticians, Operational and Social Researchers) with a focus on learning and resourcing requirements.

Job description

This role can cover one of the following areas: Finance, People & Capability, and Capability & Governance (Candidates will ideally specify their area of interest). 

For Finance: 

• Coordinating and leading monthly and quarterly finance reviews across Analysis Group.  Being the first point of contact for answering any questions relating to Analysis Group spend and forecasts, ensuring that any forecast variances from budget allocations are flagged so mitigating measures can be taken. 
• Provide Analysis Group budget holders with an effective financial planning, forecasting, and reporting service and regular management information updates. 
• Working with the Finance Business Partner (FBP) and other finance teams to ensure that DBT’s finance systems reflects Analysis Group’s budget, structure and spend. 

For People & Capability:  

• Enabling the right people resource, outside of the SCS, with the right capabilities to be in the right place at the right time.  
• Helping provide and support a talent pipeline, particularly for wider analytical professional fast streamers (GES/GORS/GSR/GSS) and HEO Economists.
• Capturing and sharing the experience and knowledge gained to build a long-term picture on future capability needs. 
• Managing the degree apprenticeship programme.  
• Supporting students of Master degrees, and post-graduate developmental needs of professionals working within the analysis group.  
• Facilitating all assessment processes including DTA (Development Trajectory Assessments) and EPA (End of Programme Assessments).

For Capability & Governance: 

• Managing risk and opportunities registers to monitor risks including spend and to facilitate mitigations and/or provide short term remedial budgetary actions.  
• Preparing Analysis Group resourcing asks with supporting narrative during comprehensive spending reviews, business planning cycles and quarterly finance reviews. 
• Managing the meeting cycles including agenda, invites, forward look and progress against action plans.  

Ensuring compliance across all cross-departmental functions such as in-year rewards, performance management and adherence to process.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• High level communication skills adjusting to audience requirements.

• Good stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to be pro-active and enthusiastic, with good judgement and excellent organisational skills.

Desirable Criteria  

• Previous experience of working in a fast-changing delivery environment, showing a flexible approach to dealing with a challenging workload, and the ability to manage conflicting priorities. 

Personal Attributes & Skills

• A strong manager, with leadership potential, who supports agreed changes and displays behaviours that align with Civil Service and organisational values. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,858, Department for Business and Trade contributes £8,872 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception. 

Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way. 

After the closing date It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date though this is subject to change. 

To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:    

1. A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
2. A Personal Statement of up to 750 words, explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential criteria.  

Please specify in your Personal Statement which specific area(s) you are interested in and why:

• Finance
• People & Capability
• Capability & Governance

In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement only. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.   

Location

This role is available in seven UK locations and can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.

Reasonable Adjustments 

We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:  

Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.  

Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.   

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. 

Candidate Support 

You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.   

Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.  

Vetting

The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.   

Further Information: 

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.

• Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
• The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases. 
• New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.  
• 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. Any applicant who has 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.  
• Terms and Conditions are attached.  Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.  
• Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland/Access NI on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading. 

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk 

For further information on the Access NI confidential checking service telephone: the Access NI Helpline on 0300 200 7888 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email accessni@ani.x.gsi.gov.uk 

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 security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.