About the job

Job summary

Our Change Delivery directorate, established in 2022, is responsible for scoping, designing and delivering those change programmes and projects across SFO that allow us to deliver on our ambitious strategic objectives.

You will lead a range of IT-enabled business change projects as part of the SFO’s wider Change Portfolio, working closely with our Senior Responsible Owners and in partnership with other key roles in our Change Delivery, IT and Commercial teams. 

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in the SFO’s wider digital transformation. The IT-enabled projects within the Change Portfolio will change over time, but currently include implementing enterprise document and records management (SharePoint and MS Teams implementation), implementing a case management system for our operational teams and upgrading our intelligence management software.  Looking to the future, the SFO needs to keep pace with the changing nature of technology and financial crime, exploring technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Managing multi-disciplinary project teams, you will take a hands-on working approach and role-model a can-do attitude to ensure the projects you are leading deliver on their promises in line with the SFO’s overall strategic direction.

Delivery may be through in-house teams, suppliers, partners or a blend of these methods depending on the needs of each project and you will be expected to nurture and maintain effective working relationships throughout.

We are looking for someone with a real passion for business change and desire to work as part of a team that shares this drive and energy. You will be an effective project management professional who has proven experience of managing multi-disciplinary project teams to deliver change. Whilst this role will principally be focused on delivery IT-enabled business change, depending on the makeup of the Change Portfolio and team capacity more broadly, there may be occasions when this role is required to project manage other types of internal change project.

Job description

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Shaping, planning and monitoring project delivery, overseeing and directing the work of the project team for each project you are leading (you will likely be project managing more than one project at any given time)
• Ensuring that project delivery aligns to project delivery best practice, the SFO’s delivery methodology and, where relevant, the Technology Code of Practice.
• Working with the Finance team and other stakeholders (including colleagues within your project team) to develop project business cases, track and manage project budgets and ensure that benefits are baselined, tracked and handed over to the SRO for continued benefits realisation at the close of a project
• Undertaking procurement of required services working with the Commercial team and ensuring effective ongoing supplier management
• Establishing strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and working with staff at all levels to ensure that projects meet user needs and deliver the required benefits

For more information and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see the attached Job Pack. 

Person specification

Please see above and the attached Job Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,998, Serious Fraud Office contributes £15,659 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 and Experience.

Application stage

As part of the application process you will be required to provide:

• A personal statement of no more than 750 words that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential and desirable experience criteria as listed in the Job Pack. 
• A supporting CV outlining your job history and qualifications, including how you meet the essential technical criteria for the role.

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage.

Interview stage

Behaviours and essential experience as outlined in the Job Pack will be tested at interview. 

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Sift to take place from 18th March 2024.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 8th April 2024.

All dates are indicative and subject to change.

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

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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.