About the job

Job summary

About Government Internal Audit Agency

We are an executive agency of His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government.

Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators.

Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit.

We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function.

Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors.

This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business.

In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years.

Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join small and busy governance team, based within the Corporate Services division. The team provides a wide range of corporate governance services, including overseeing the effective system of governance, risk management and internal control within the Government Internal Audit Agency, leading on planning and reporting, producing the Agency’s Corporate Plan and its Annual Report and Accounts, along with oversight of the Agency’s correspondence system.

This is a pivotal role within the team with responsibility for leading on matters relating to corporate governance and correspondence. This is a high-profile role across the Agency working side by side with senior colleagues to deliver a seamless, high-quality internal governance function.

The post holder will be the Agency’s lead on propriety and ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting. The post holder will create, maintain, and provide expert advice and guidance to colleagues across the Agency on the application of policies, including close working with Directors and Non-Executive Board Members.

The successful candidate will need to be highly organised, with strong delivery and excellent communication skills. You must be able to handle information sensitively and respect confidentiality and privacy with an ability to engage effectively with a wide range of colleagues. 

Person specification

• Lead responsibility to promote the highest standards of integrity and impartiality within GIAA. This includes management of the declaration system and policy for managing conflicts of interest and gifts and hospitality; conducting second line assurance checks; producing reports for Executive and Board committees; continuously improving guidance, systems and processes.
• Ensure the timely handling of external of external correspondence, including Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests, Data Subject Access Requests, complaints and general correspondence. To also lead on the development of policy regarding correspondence matters to ensure GIAA practices are aligned with the expectations of the Information Commissioners Office and learns from recent decision notices.
• Oversee the external reporting processes to ensure they comply with the government’s transparency agenda. Working closely with colleagues across the Agency to collect and publish information and to maintain the Agency’s Publication Scheme.
• Line management of the Governance Support Officer (Executive Officer).
• Ensuring that all the governance procedures and policies are fit for purpose, up to date and accessible to all colleagues.
• Contributing towards the wider team efforts to deliver effective governance advice and support to Directors, non-executive Board members and colleagues.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,900, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £12,123 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.As part of our pre-employment security checks, if you are invited to interview and are not a current GIAA member of staff, you will need to bring:
• Proof of identity, e.g. your passport or driver’s license. Documents must be in date and valid.
• Proof of address, e.g. a utility bill or bank statement issued within the past 3 months
• Proof of your National Insurance (NI) number, e.g. letter from DWP confirming your NI number, or P60
• If you do not bring a UK or EU passport, you will need to bring other documentation of your right to work in the UK, e.g. your visa, biometric residence permit or birth certificate.

Further details regarding acceptable documents will be provided in the invitation to interview.

Please let us know if your contact details change at any time during the selection process.

Eligibility Statement:

Individuals appointed to the Treasury Group will be subject to National Security Vetting. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis using all information that can be obtained following a successful application.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets 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 (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.