About the job

Job summary

About Home Office

The Home Office is one of the original great Departments of State and its role is fundamentally important: to keep Britain’s streets safe and its borders secure. With a budget of £14.7bn, the Home Office leads on immigration and passports, drugs and crime policy, counter-extremism and counterterrorism and works to ensure visible, responsive, and accountable policing in the UK. The Public Safety Group works closely with partners across policing, the  National Crime Agency, and fire and rescue services to ensure they are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering  front line public services. We are delivering the Emergency Services Mobile Communication Programme – one of the biggest and most complex national IT programmes to  improve communications between police, fire and ambulance services. The new Emergency Services Network (ESN) has the potential to transform how Britain’s emergency services operate, providing first responders immediate access to life-saving data, images and information in real-time.

Job description

This is an exciting leadership role delivering cutting edge technology at national level which will directly impact people’s lives. As Deputy Programme Manager, you will lead the work of our Programme Management Office comprising an extended, multidisciplinary team of up to 200 professionals including Civil Servants, Emergency Services personnel, Contractors and Consultants and you will interface with partners who provide core functionality and services to the ESMCP. The programme includes 50 parallel projects and with accountability for planning, reporting, risk management and governance of the programme and you will work closely with senior stakeholders to inform and drive forward our strategy and underpin the delivery of critical outcomes.  

Person specification

As an experienced Programme Manager or with a grounding in relevant portfolio and project leadership, you will bring a track record within telecoms and other sectors that may also include offshoring. You will have delivered large, complex projects and programmes, preferably as a supplier to, or within government. Adaptable, resilient and intellectually curious, you will be motivated by the potential for self-development and learning and with strong influencing skills, you will possess the confidence, gravitas and credibility to communicate and present complex, technical information to a range non-technical audiences and stakeholders at executive level. With the ability to lead and manage partner contracts and large suppliers, you will be adept at developing and implementing strategies to deliver tangible outcomes, while ensuring value for money. A project or programme delivery qualification at degree level or equivalent, such as the Project Leadership Programme, Prince 2 Certification or other recognised accreditation, will be considered essential.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £86,000, Home Office contributes £23,220 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

How to Apply:

If you are motivated by the opportunity to grip the challenges of delivering functions of national importance and social impact, we would like to hear from you.

For more information or for an informal discussion about the role contact our advising consultants at GatenbySanderson:

Orla.Brennan@gatenbysanderson.com
Tracy.wicik@gatenbysanderson.com

Applications must be received by 23.55 on Sunday 11th August 2024 by clicking https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe109607

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

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.