About the job

Job summary

About Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA)

We are an executive agency of His Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury), established in April 2015 to improve the quality of internal audit provided to central government.

Most of the Agency’s people are professionally qualified internal auditors, accountants or investigators.

Many are also specialists in areas including counter fraud, project management, digital and commercial audit.

We lead both the Government Internal Audit Profession and the Government Internal Audit Function.

Our workforce brings with it a unique depth of experience gained in a wide range of government departments, related bodies and other sectors.

This enables us to offer a high-quality service based on cross-government insight and a strong understanding of our customers’ business.

In GIAA, we aim to be a great place to work and to ensure that we have the capability and capacity to make even more of a significant contribution to achieving A Brilliant Civil Service over the coming years.

Our initial focus was on becoming “a single audit practice”. We are now focused on taking GIAA to the next level so we can provide better insights and better outcomes for government.

Job description

We are looking for up to six Resource Managers to join the GIAA. The primary responsibility of the Resource Manager will be to provide resource management services to ensure people with the right skills and experience are allocated audits at the right time to meet the demands of audit plans. This will involve using the Tempus Resource Management system to balance workload and ensure work is distributed fairly and within the time constraints of the audit plans. 

In this role, the Resource Manager will work closely with management teams to ensure effective utilisation of GIAA resources, therefore, we are seeking candidates with great emotional intelligence who can work collaboratively with others and build strong relationships, to ensure resourcing needs are met. 

The ideal candidate will be proficient in the use of computer systems, be able to navigate a Resource Management system with ease and analyse complex data to provide considered recommendations.  They will be expected to assess the workload of individual team members, delegate tasks accordingly and identify solutions to resourcing gaps.

Resource Manager Responsibilities

• Utilise the Tempus Resource Management system to plan resource allocation based on current and upcoming audits and assign employees to audits based on their skillsets, previous experience, and availability.
• Monitor daily audit activities and ensure appropriate staffing levels are in place to meet the audit plans
• Understand people’s workload and utilisation to collaborate with audit managers to manage and maximise productivity.
• Identify solutions to resolve resource conflicts.
• Address resource shortages by reallocating resources, assigning additional people, and informing senior management of any issues.

Person specification

You will be required to write a statement of suitability of up to 750 words setting out how your skills and experience meet the following criteria: 

• Previous experience of resource management, data analysis and database management, including proficiency in using software systems to solve complex and competing priorities. Examples of software include CRM, logistics,
• and resource management software.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective communication, negotiation, influencing and collaboration with colleagues
• Ability to efficiently prioritise and manage multiple tasks
• Strong critical thinking, analytical, and forecasting abilities,
• Able to utilise complex information to make effective and reasoned decisions
• Proficiency in conflict resolution and problem-solving skills
• Good presentation skills

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,900, Government Internal Audit Agency contributes £12,123 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, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of our pre-employment security checks, if you are invited to interview and are not a current GIAA member of staff, you will need to bring:

• Proof of identity, e.g. your passport or driver’s licence. Documents must be in date and valid.
• Proof of address, e.g. a utility bill or bank statement issued within the past 3 months
• Proof of your National Insurance (NI) number, e.g. letter from DWP confirming your NI number, or P60
• If you do not bring a UK or EU passport, you will need to bring other documentation of your right to work in the UK, e.g. your visa, biometric residence permit or birth certificate.

Further details regarding acceptable documents will be provided in the invitation to interview.

Please let us know if your contact details change at any time during the selection process.

Eligibility Statement

Individuals appointed to the Treasury Group will be subject to National Security Vetting. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis using all information that can be obtained following a successful application.

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

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.