About the job

Job summary

We are looking for a dynamic and committed Grade SEO with strong commercial governance experience who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. This role will report to the Head of Supply Chain Management and Strategy.

You will play an important role in ensuring that the Department’s work to support remediation of unsafe buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire by ensuring that the Supply Chain Management & Strategy part of the SGB Commercial team is implemented, endorsed, and used by both internal and external stakeholders across the Portfolio.

The Building Safety Portfolio was established following the Grenfell Tower fire to make sure that high-rise buildings are safe, and that residents feel safe in them, now and in the future. The Portfolio has and still/is leading fundamental reform of the building safety system as a priority area of work for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC).

The Commercial Supply Chain Management & Strategy team sits at the heart of the Portfolio, with the purpose of bringing together stakeholders at a Portfolio and Programme Level both internally and externally. A key part of this is to ensure that Commercial governance is effectively implemented, ensuring continuity is established and maintained through the effective management of documentation, processes and stakeholder engagement, whilst ensuring risk and opportunities are appropriately managed.

Job description

Provide a high level of support and guidance to internal and external stakeholder groups, supporting their understanding of governance and process.

Ensure that all boards, committees, associated meetings and memberships are provided with comprehensive governance and efficient support services to enable them to fulfil their roles and ensure these individuals are held to account.

Arrange, plan and support the running of governance meetings, maintaining all the appropriate governance documentation:

• Preparation and distribution of agendas
• Attending governance meetings and taking minutes
• Collating and logging actions, which are followed up on in a timely manner.
• Collating risk and issues via a RAID log
• Maintaining meeting terms of reference and linking agenda points across forums
• Deliver governance training/updates as required. Monitor and maintain any appropriate shared mailboxes and attendee calendars to ensure adequate representation at meetings

Work across the team to collate workstream updates and collate into a weekly team report to be shared within and outside of the team. Identify and log any personal development requirements Deliver training on governance and related topics as required To undertake and support other such duties as may be allocated by other members of the team (Head of Supply Chain Mgt. and or Supply Chain Manager)

Person specification

Key skills/criteria

• Experience in a similar role
• A good understanding of risk and PMO management
• Attention to detail
• A tenacious approach and a desire to drive actions forwards and ensure that timelines are met
• Able to make sense of often conflicting advice and steers, but gain consensus from parties and individual on a route forwards
• Great written and verbal communicator with good interpersonal skills who can foster strong relationships in what is often a challenging environment
• An organised self-starter who can work under pressure and is eager to learn
• Someone who is happy to work both on their own and as part of an exceptional team
• Competent in the use of technology and software to support their role particularly MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,732, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £10,457 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

We are for everyone 

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation. 

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 

 

CV and Cover Letter Declaration 

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment. 

Please remove references to your: 

• name/title
• educational institutions
• age
• gender
• email address
• postal address
• phone number
• nationality/immigration status

 

You will need to merge your CV and covering letter into one document. When submitting your application Applied will ask you to upload a CV, when doing this you should upload your merged document of your CV and covering letter. 

 

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

 

At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing: 

 Experience 

 

Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. 

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of experience, behaviour and strength based questions as listed in the advert. The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.  

 

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

 

Experience: Yes - Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description 

Strength: Yes

Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing and Working Together

 We do not consider direct CV applications – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs: 

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign 

SEO salary 

• The salary for this role is £38,732 (National). 

• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges. 

 

Benefits 

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

Any move to DLUHC from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk. 

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

 

Location 

• Leeds
• Manchester
• Wolverhampton 
• Darlington* 

 

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role. 

 

*Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service.  This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by: 

• HM Treasury  
• Department for International Trade 
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  
• Office for National Statistics  
• Department for Education 

 

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack. 

 

Sift and Interview dates 
 
We will be sifting applicants as we go – so please don’t wait until the deadline to submit your application. Interview dates will be confirmed at a later stage, all interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

OR:  We will perform a sift to assess and score the evidence provided in the CV and covering letter. Applicants achieving the pass mark will be offered an interview on a rolling basis. We will be sifting and interviewing applicants as we go – so please don’t wait until the deadline to submit your application. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

OR: sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 22/01/2024 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

 

Reserve List 

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Due to the length of time CTC checks can take, our HR Shared Services team will contact reserve list candidates for London based roles to commence CTC checks. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list. 

 

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules 

 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

Internal Fraud Database 

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.  

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register

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

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.