Integration & Reporting Manager
Department for Transport
About the job
Job summary
We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Would you embrace the opportunity to join a team which has oversight of the whole Rail interfaces portfolio?
Do you enjoy collaborating and developing positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity available and would love to hear from you!
Job description
You will join the Rail Interfaces Team, who are based within the Integration and Security Directorate, and are responsible for supporting the incorporation and alignment of rail activity across the rail network.
As Integration & Reporting Manager, you will support your Line Manager in handling rail interfaces across the North of England, but will also have direct responsibility for specific rail interfaces from London to the midlands, which will include creating tools for tracking and monitoring. As you will have an oversight of the whole Rail projects portfolio, you will understand the projects and the impacts which they have on one another. Therefore, enabling you to identify possible risks and implications, and highlight these to the relevant stakeholders to ensure they are understood.
Within this role you will form collaborative relationships with our key partners, including colleagues working in Portfolio Offices and Programme Management Offices across our Rail Groups, and external colleagues such as Network Rail. As the majority of the interfaces the team oversee are within the Rail industry, it is important that you will be able to quickly understand and retain technical information and terminology, whilst supporting multiple workstreams and projects.
If you would like to find out more about what it's like to work at DfT Rail, please click here.
Your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Managing and developing portfolio reporting, facilitating cross-group communication amongst disperse teams, and checking and challenging information to ensure key interdependencies and issues are appropriately raised and understood.
- Leading on the development and production of bespoke reports for Senior Management, ensuring technical jargon is communicated in a digestible way.
- Acting as a central point of contact for Public Transport and Local Group (PTLG) for Cabinet Office, Departmental and other commissions, ensuring a joined-up approach and response on behalf of the Group.
- Providing a secretariat support function for the team.
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.
Person specification
About you
You will have knowledge and understanding of project management processes and will either already hold an APM or similar qualification, or be willing to work towards a project, programme or portfolio management qualification once in role.
You will be a proactive individual who is confident working on your initiative, and enjoys having the autonomy to decide how to plan your workload. You will be comfortable working within a fast-paced environment whilst supporting multiple workstreams and projects and will remain flexible when faced with changing priorities. With a high attention to detail, you will confidently manipulate an array of data to produce detailed reports to support decision making. You will be proficient with the use of various IT systems including but limited to MS Word, Excel and Teams. You will be able to quickly understand and retain technical information and terminology.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills, allowing you to develop positive relationships within and outside of the Department, enabling you to effectively advise and influence stakeholders. You will be comfortable handling all types of conversations, including handling conflicting opinions. You will have excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, which excellent drafting ability.
Additional Information
This role is available to individuals who wish to be spending their office time in London, Leeds or Birmingham, and we would also expect the individual to be willing to travel to visit different locations relevant to the route.
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.
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.How to Apply
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement (maximum 750 words) please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Knowledge and understanding of project management and producing high-quality policy documents.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication abilities, enabling you to be effectively navigate diverse perspectives.
- Capability in consistently delivering high-quality work against tight deadlines, whilst maintaining flexibility amidst evolving priorities.
The sift is due to take place from 21/05/2024.
Interviews are likely to be held from 05/06/2024.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- an interview
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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Further Information
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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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