About the job

Job summary

Are you able to work with a wide range of senior stakeholders confidently and professionally?

Have you got experience of delivering and working on high profile digital projects?

Do you thrive in a fast paced environment and strive to achieve tight deadlines?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Job description

This is a high-profile role, offering the rare opportunity to play a pivotal part in the operationalisation of a digital application, while gaining experience in policy development, digital projects, and strategy.

The Department for Transport is developing the Forensic Collision Investigation Application (FCIA), a digital application solely for the use of Police Forensic Collision Investigators (PFCIs). . This is because the DfT have a responsibility to maintain high standards of safety and security in transport, with a priority to build a One Nation Britain. The FCIA will empower the police with a single means of identifying causation factors and ensuring offenders are brought to justice, thereby removing threats from Great Britain’s roads.

PFCIs attend the most serious road traffic collisions (RTCs) across Great Britain, and look at physical evidence on the road, such as tyre marks, damage to vehicles and other environmental factors, to establish from a scientific perspective what may have happened. The existing process needs a digital overhaul from pen and paper to a digital form and the FCIA will achieve this.

The FCIA project is dynamic and fast-paced, in a constantly evolving, challenging, and exciting environment. This project is a central part of the Department’s new Road Safety Strategic Framework and represents a real step forward in the Department’s understanding of and contribution to the reduction of road traffic collisions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work with the G7 Policy and Legislation Lead in developing the necessary policy and digital products, such as a strategic outline business case, digital and policy strategy, as well as various documentation for governance boards.
• Work with colleagues across DfT, OGDs, and the private sector to deliver the policy and digital workstream that will provide a robust foundation for the operational capability of the DfT in respect of road safety;
• Represent the Department in discussions with other government Departments, senior internal and external stakeholders, and third-party stakeholders;
• Manage one third-party supplier, one contractor, and one secondee.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile

Person specification

Candidates should be able to demonstrate a range of policy and project delivery experience, particularly in digital projects. Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders, including the private and wider public sector is key. You will be able to work quickly and under pressure while remaining calm and focused. You will also work as part of the wider Divisional team in support of the Department’s priorities and objectives. You should be a strong team-player, with a desire to develop a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture.

Additional Information:

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. 

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement, for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week. 

There will be occasions where you will be required to travel to other DfT offices and attend meetings and visits around the UK.

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.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Please see the following details on how to apply.

When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following: 

• Experience of working on and delivering digital projects.
• Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of delivering to tight deadlines, in complex and changing environments.

Please fully utilise the 750-word count when completing your personal statement.

The sift is due to take place from week commencing 12th February 2024.

Interviews are likely to be held from week commencing 26th February 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
• A presentation

This interview will be conducted online via MS Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

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.

Document Accessibility

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

This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.

Further Information

For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.

Pre-employment Checking

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.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.