About the job

Job summary

Working at the heart of government, the Director, Property Delivery and Transformation, supports the Government Property Function in setting the strategic vision for the vast government estate, working across government departments, agencies, and arms-length bodies, and leading on the delivery of cross-cutting, transformational property programmes.

The broad range of programmes includes Better Buildings, One Public Estate, FM, Place Pilots and InSite/data. Leading high-performing teams in OGP, you will provide expert advice and challenge to departments on property-related performance, together enabling a more efficient, sustainable government estate. 

This is a unique opportunity for a senior property professional to drive the functional agenda, and through leadership of the many cross-cutting programmes, enabling the realisation of the ambitions set out in the Government Property Strategy 2022-2030.

Job description

The successful candidate will be a part of the cross-Government community of 7000+ property professionals, with benefits including: access to a diverse community of property professionals across government for sharing best practice; Government- and industry-led CPD; and a comprehensive career framework and learning and development curriculum to support your career journey across the UK's largest estate.

Key Responsibilities include:

Lead cross-cutting programmes (and, in some cases, act as the Senior Responsible Officer) to deliver the Government Property Strategy including:

• The award-winning One Public Estate programme, delivered in partnership with the Local Government Association, supporting c.1,000 projects, including bringing public services together under one roof and improving access to services;
• Driving the function’s work on cross-sector place-shaping collaboration through our Place Pilots;
• Disposals and efficiency programme, delivering £1.5bn in capital receipts and £0.5bn in revenue savings by 2025;
• The Better Buildings programme, tackling maintenance and safety issues where they exist in the government estate, including issues such as Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and ;
• Improving Facilities Management across the estate through a 10-year strategy and new standards including effective operation of the Facilities Management Spend Control to ensure Government departments comply with the Government Property Strategy and spend control policy

For more information on key responsibilities please view the attached candidate information pack. 

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Person specification

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Property professional qualification and / or membership of a relevant professional body e.g. ICE, RICS, IWFM;

• Substantial evidence of leading property operations across some/all of the property lifecycle (transactions, projects, FM operations);

• Proven track record of securing the confidence of senior stakeholders within and outside your organisation and in successfully managing conflicting views;

• Evidence of working with ambiguity and complexity in a property field, ability to develop policy, secure buy-in to a vision, develop plans and implement into delivery; and

• Successful experience of leading and managing a strategic agenda and delivering a challenging property change programme, alongside digital transformation, in a complex environment.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £97,000, Cabinet Office contributes £26,190 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

Advert Closes: 23:55, Tuesday 9 January 2024

Shortlisting: 16 January 2024

Assessments: 17-31 January 2024 (remote)

Interviews: 16 February 2024 (in London)

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).

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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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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.