About the job

Job summary

Support the delivery of a vital, multi-strand migration and borders system

The Home Office’s mission is to deliver a safe, fair and prosperous UK. As well as working to reduce crime and enforce the law, we strive to protect the vulnerable and have a proud history of providing refuge to those who have been displaced or are seeking asylum.  It’s critical work that demands the very best systems to support it.

Job description

Migration and Borders Group.  Covering the most high-profile policy areas for the Home Office –asylum, migration, nationality, citizens’ rights and border transformation – it encompasses policy, legislation and reform of the immigration system. This system will be resilient, and well-placed to manage ongoing policy change. It will also be easy to understand and navigate, streamlining the process to free up time for more complex cases.  

Your challenge is to lead a team that supports the delivery and maintenance of an efficient, coherent and transparent migration and borders system. To do this, you will establish strong relationships with key stakeholders, and work closely with policy, design, operational and technology teams to ensure that delivery plans are fit for purpose.  A key task is to translate evolving policy, legislation, rules and guidance into tools and products that meet user needs (including customers and decision-makers).

An in-depth understanding of the legislative, business and technical design issues an organisation needs to consider when implementing new policies will be key to your success. You will also need the leadership skills to translate your insights into action. Adept in building relationships and influencing others, both internally and externally, you have experience of fostering collaboration and co-creation among multiple users or stakeholders. Your exemplary powers of communication mean you can negotiate and manage different points of view to achieve positive outcomes. Specific knowledge of the migration and borders systems is welcome, but not essential.

Along with extensive training and development, we offer structured career progression.  Other benefits include access to a valuable civil service pension and flexible working arrangements.

Person specification

It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience in each of the essential criteria of the person specification. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview.

Essential Criteria  

• An understanding of the legislative, business and technical design, and business change activities that an organisation needs to consider when planning the implementation of new policies;
• Excellent collaboration skills including experience of developing and implementing strategies or policies which need to be co-created with multiple users or stakeholders;
• Experience of senior level stakeholder engagement in a complex stakeholder environment;
• Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written forms at all levels.

 

Desirable Criteria 

• Experience of working in the Migration & Borders System
• An understanding of relevant legislation (primary and secondary)
• Familiarity with the concepts of product management and continuous improvement

For further information on this role please refer to the candidate pack attached at the bottom of the page.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Home Office 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

Online Application

Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs on Wednesday 7th February 2024.

Provide some basic personal information;

A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;

A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.

Diversity Monitoring - as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025-html

It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview.

Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.

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

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.