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The Home Office is here to make our country safer. As well as working to protect the most vulnerable, reduce crime and enforce the law, we also work to, and have a proud history of, providing refuge to those who have been displaced or are seeking asylum. Whether it is fighting crime, protecting our borders or combating slavery, the Home Office (HO) is at the cutting edge of public policy in this country and our work is some of the most challenging and rewarding in government.
The role of the Public Safety Group (PSG), which sits within the HO, is to keep the public safe by protecting the vulnerable, cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as trusted, efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services.
The people in our Group develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation. We make the most of innovation, data, and partnerships to protect the vulnerable, prevent crime, and tackle the highest harm crimes. We work with our partners in law enforcement, establishing governance arrangements at a national, regional, and local level.
Britain’s emergency services work 24/7 to serve the public in some of the most dangerous and challenging situations. To help them do their job even better, the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) is creating the next generation mobile communications network, including secure and resilient voice and broadband data services, which will be used by thousands of front line police officers, paramedics and fire-fighters.
ESMCP is a pan-government, cross departmental, programme based within the Home Office having representation from the emergency services at both operational and departmental levels and has close working involvement from the suppliers of the ESN technology.
This new Emergency Services Network (ESN) is an exciting programme, delivering cutting edge technology which will directly impact people’s lives. It will transform how our blue-light services respond to incidents, offering better mobile coverage and leading to faster response times. ESN will allow emergency service professionals to work together more efficiently and effectively when incidents and accidents occur by sharing data across the new digital network. The new network is dynamic and can take advantage of new technology as it develops, making sure that those doing the vital job of protecting the public and saving lives get the best and most modern communications tools available.
Job description
This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to work on one of Governments biggest programmes supporting the essential services provided by our Emergency Services. The Programme is a blend of contractors and Civil Servants working across Technical, Project and Programme Management and User Engagement disciplines.
Leading the day to day running of all Workforce Planning activities, you will be supporting the continued construction and maintenance of an accurate strategic workforce plan, which captures current and future workforce capacity (Full Time Equivalent) and role capability (profession and grade).
Responsible for establishing a stakeholder network to capture workforce impacts and changes, you will be championing new ways of working to drive automation and streamlining enhancements, and the management of localised dashboards to aid workforce reporting, thus enabling senior members of the team to make strategic decisions.
Monitoring ESMCP's individual workstreams’ workforce plans, working collaboratively with the Finance team, you will consolidate them into a single Resource Plan for the Programme, you will analyse trends to ensure Workforce Planning activities fall within the remit of the Resourcing Strategy in line with budgets.
You will design and deliver an organisation structure, working with the Programme's Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Programme Management Organisation (PMO), and direct production regularly (at least every 6 months) of a refreshed organogram.
This role involves line management of an Higher Executive Officer (HEO) Workforce Planning Manager, providing timely feedback, leadership and help in developing their capability and career.
There may be need for travel to or from Bristol and London but overnight stays will be very unusual. The costs of any travel associated with this role will be met by the business area.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estates capacity, by Spring 2024. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details).
Person specification
The post will suit an organised, analyst who is a good communicator and can work with colleagues to get the best out of the wider organisation and ably inform and advise the Programme's senior management.
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in formulating evidenced-based recommendations or policies that effectively respond to strategic objectives or priorities;
- Experience of collating and manipulating data to deduce trends and risks and present these clearly and successfully to inform and advise senior management or ministers;
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at senior and junior levels, while maintaining positive long-term working relationships;
- Experience of working in a changing environment and planning, collaborating, and delivering through others, to meet both short and longer-term deadlines; and
- Experience of line management or developing individuals and teams to get the best out of people to achieve the delivery of key outcomes.
Desirable criteria
- Track record of supporting business delivery through developing, maintaining and presenting a complex workforce plan and/or an organisational plan.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
As part of the application, you will be asked to complete:
- A CV (job history)
- Statement of Suitability (Personal statement) (1000 words maximum)
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
The Statement of Suitability must be aligned to demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job advertisement.
The sift will be held on the Statement of Suitability only. CVs will not be scored.
Successful candidates shortlisted for interview will be tested on a blended approach of Strength based questions (no preparation necessary) and all the behaviours listed in the advert.
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. All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying and generating of examples/answers from internet sources including Artificial Intelligence. If any is detected the application may be withdrawn from the process. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving civil servants. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.
Sift and interview dates
The sift will take place week commencing 29th January 2024.
Interviews will take place week commencing 19th 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.
Interviews will take place remotely. Candidates will be required to have access to:
- A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
- Good internet connection
- Microsoft Teams
PLEASE NOTE: Due to time constraints we may not be able to offer alternative interview date(s). It is therefore expected that candidates who are successful at sift stage will make themselves available during the above time frame given.
Further details and instructions will be provided closer to the scheduled interview.
Further information
For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Please note: The successful candidates will be required to hold or be willing to secure Security Check (SC) clearance.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.
We often have similar roles available at different grades. If a candidate is suitable for a similar role or a lower grade than they have applied for, we may offer the candidate that role without the need for them to go through a further selection process.
Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.
We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
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.
For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.
Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.
Transfer Terms: Voluntary.
If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.
Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.
Any move to the Home 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
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is 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 HOrecruitment.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.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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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