About the job

Job summary

Do you have experience in managing the controlled delivery of major IT changes in a large-scale environment?

Are you a strategic thinker who can apply their skills in optimising the throughput of IT Change across a diverse and complex IT estate?

This role might be right for you.

This Enterprise Planning role provides an opportunity to be part of a team that is involved in all aspects of the DWP Digital Estate.

An Enterprise Planner formulates, creates, and publishes plans covering the entire DWP estate. The plans encompass major activities scheduled over the next 24 months with the objective of enabling the DWP to deliver its Digital strategy smoothly, seamlessly and without conflict or error. In creating and developing Enterprise Plans you will engage stakeholders to understand release strategies and business working requirements.

You will collaborate with others to analyse data, consider multiple scenarios, and where appropriate help the Enterprise Planning team to facilitate planned moves among several stakeholders to integrate business and technology releases and associated activities.

Job description

The Enterprise Planner will be required to create and publish Enterprise Plans.

To achieve that you will need to engage stakeholders from multiple directorates to understand the context of their release, delivery and implementation strategies.

You are expected to:

• Own one of the quarterly Enterprise Plans and to ensure its currency, maintenance, viability and publication.
• Be proactive in owning and managing the plan, engaging stakeholders, obtaining information and identifying issues and concerns.
• Take responsibility for coordinating, directing and managing more junior members of the team.

Specific Tasks involved in day-to day management of Enterprise Plans include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the collection of Data from multiple sources: Projects, Programmes, suppliers, Business et al.
• Lead the analysis of data including the understanding, documentation and communication of release schedules, risk and dependency management.
• Maintenance of Enterprise release planning data in DWP Place (e.g. EPARS).
• Maintenance and publication of individual Enterprise Release Plans (i.e. on a weekly basis).
• Act as the Enterprise release planning point of contact with specific Programmes / Supplier areas (e.g. Hybrid Hosting, Networks, Future Assessment Service etc.).
• Participate where relevant in Enterprise Release Planning continuous service improvement and process initiatives.
• Take the lead in stakeholder management, as Chair of regular calls, or through engagement with other functions or teams within Live Operations (e.g. Change Management, Release Implementation, Service Design and Transition, Service Catalogue), COO PPM, etc.
• Understanding the bigger picture and looking at the situation over more than one release package period to understand, disseminate and communicate complex programs of work to multiple audiences.
• Facilitate the movement of releases within packages/weekends with project and business stakeholders.
• Undertake line management responsibilities for other team members.

Person specification

The essential criteria are outlined in the selection process details.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Caicy.Sandford1@dwp.gov.uk.

Benefits

• An employer pension contribution of up to 27% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £52,412 to £63,517.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Location

Applicants should apply for suitable posts where they can travel to and from their home office location daily within a reasonable time.   

Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed 

Hybrid Working

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.  This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Stage 1: Application

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.

3. Personal statement up to 1000 words. 

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• Demonstrable skills and experience in consultancy, project management, ITIL service delivery and Service Management.
• Experience in the development and implementation of new processes and/or technology solutions to drive service improvement.
• Understanding of business and technical drivers in the context of the IT System Lifecycle, including Application Development, with the experience to recognize and identify potential conflicts of interest when necessary.
• Experience of risk management, change management and planning methodologies.
• Excellent Relationship Management, utilising interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels through strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Extensive knowledge of Technology and how it is used to improve business outcomes is also highly beneficial.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.

Important Information

• You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.

You will be asked to do a short (5 minutes) presentation on a specific topic. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview. 

Interviews will take place from late-January 2024.

Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” 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.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit page

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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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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.