About the job

Job summary

HM Land Registry are looking to appoint a Deputy Director of Business Design and are seeking a strong leader with experience in creating strategies or corporate plans within a complex organisational and operating context.

This key role will have responsibility for coordinating, synthesising and maintaining a business design to enable HM Land Registry to deliver its strategic objectives, including people, data, processes, technology, customer and assets and achieve its ambition to enable a world leading property market.

Job description

As Deputy Director of Business Design, you will lead the Design Authority that oversees the process of gathering ideas, promoting excellent design and prioritising delivery to ensure everyone in HM Land Registry can access, understand and contribute to the business design. 

You will ensure that the value, time and cost of achieving the business design is understood sufficiently to support board decisions, funding discussions with HM Treasury and portfolio and programme business cases. Setting the requirement for others so that HM Land Registry has the evidence and analysis to support board level decisions on business design options and the ability to assess the deliverability and impact of any proposals for additional functions coming from other government departments.

Providing visible and effective leadership as part of the Customer and Strategy Senior Leadership Team, you will develop a multi-skilled, flexible and resilient team capable of working across the organisation to analyse and synthesise corporate plans.

Please see the candidate pack for more information.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will have relevant experience in creating strategies or corporate plans in a complex organisational and operating context.

You have experience in the creation of financially strong and successful business cases to support a complex portfolio of change and delivering results in a complex environment.

In addition, you have a proven ability of strong leadership and building trusted working relationships with colleagues at all levels, along with excellent communication, influencing and persuasion skills and experience of managing senior stakeholders.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, HM Land Registry contributes £20,250 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.

Please copy and paste your CV into the online application form to include your skills, qualifications, and work history.

You will then be asked to complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 1000 words). This should be used to outline your technical skills and experience and provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview including a pre-prepared presentation exercise which will be conducted as a video interview week commencing Monday 11 March 2024.

The blended interview will assess some of the Technical and Experience criteria, the behaviours listed in the Candidate Pack, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

You should ensure you read the attached Candidate Pack fully before submitting an application.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.
Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

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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

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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.