About the job

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity in a newly established CO Public Bodies and Appointments Team sitting within the Civil Service and Cabinet Office Governance Team.

We are looking for 2 Senior Executive Officers to join our friendly and supportive team. These are a stretching roles: the work is fast-paced and high-profile, involving a wide range of stakeholders across the department and beyond, including opportunities to work closely with Ministers’ Private Offices, senior stakeholders and occasionally No 10. It is a combination of policy and operational delivery with a high level of senior stakeholder management.

As a Public Appointments’ Senior Campaign Manager you will deliver a streamlined service resulting in high-quality, diverse public appointees who add the best value to CO Public Bodies' Boards and Honours Committees, and to the government as a whole.

Job description

As a Public Appointments’ Senior Campaign Manager you will deliver a streamlined service resulting in high-quality, diverse public appointees who add the best value to CO ALB Boards and Honours Committees, and to the government as a whole.  

In doing so, responsibilities will include:   

• Managing compliant recruitment campaigns for CO body Chairs or Board members: setting up and running public appointment campaigns often to tight timescales. 
• Providing policy advice to Ministers, senior officials and No 10 on appointment issues.  This means working with Minister’s Private Offices, and other senior officials across CO. 
• Ensuring high level candidate and panel member care throughout the campaigns, engaging with senior members of the private and public sector in the UK.
• Providing guidance to sponsor/policy teams dealing with public appointment issues and the running of campaigns. 
• Contribute towards maintaining excellent data for reporting purposes and on occasions ad hoc briefings. 
• Contribute to the team’s on-going work to develop Cabinet Office and ALB capacity to deliver diverse and good quality candidates for its public appointment roles.  
• Wider strategic work, for example the delivery of a diversity strategy, managing CO Appointments Team’s social media accounts and data capture and analysis.  

Person specification

We are looking for a fantastic team player – kind, inclusive, and caring towards colleagues and stakeholders – with an eye for quality, continuous improvement and a strategic mindset.

You are:

• A strategic thinker with an eye for detail.
• Curious and committed to continuous improvement.
• Interested in the work of Cabinet Office and our Public Bodies and keen to play a part in driving forwards Cabinet Office’s ambitious agenda.
• Adaptable and able to handle changing priorities and to work flexibly across the team.
• Resilient and able to recover from setbacks and learn from them.
• An inclusive and caring colleague who promotes the well-being of the team and colleagues/stakeholders. 

 Essential criteria: 

• Organised and self-starting, able to run and adapt complex processes to ensure high quality and timely outputs. You will be able to deliver at pace.
• Ability to comprehend government guidance and apply it to varied and complex challenges.
• Excellent written communication skills and quality assurance of written outputs (both in terms of detail, e.g. spotting typos and inconsistencies; and in terms of the big picture, e.g. thinking critically about the strategic purpose and fit of written outputs).
• Confident and capable of working closely with senior leaders, including upwards management, leading challenging conversations and maintaining positive and trusted relationships.  

As a member of the Civil Service and Cabinet Office Governance Team, successful candidates will be expected to take an active corporate role in making the Governance Team the best possible place to work. 

In line with current Cabinet Office policy, the postholder will be expected to be in the office at least 60% of the time. However, the post holders should be prepared to be in the office as business needs require.

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,500, Cabinet Office contributes £12,015 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.

Application process

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete three 250 word behavioural statements. We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing 

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour, Managing Quality Service. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to interview. 

Selection process

At interview candidates will be asked questions on the three Behaviours listed above, as well as two additional Behaviours:

• Working Together
• Seeing the Bigger Picture

Expected timeline (subject to change)

Expected sift date – w/c 29 January
Expected interview date/s – w/c 5 February
Interview location - 1 Horse Guards Road, Westminster, London

Further information

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to Cabinet Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Please note that this role requires CTC clearance, which would normally need 3 years’ UK residency in the past 3 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading. 

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Reasonable adjustments

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes. 

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: 

• Contact Government Recruitment Service via cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. 
• Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section in the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'contact point for applicants' section.

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 counter-terrorist 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.