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The Delivery, Planning and Performance team are responsible for understanding future demand and creating and maintaining mixed models of delivery to meet the needs of the business. They are responsible for allocating work to those mixed models of delivery, measuring the relative performance of each model and continuously driving through performance improvements. They control how in excess of £50m of investment is spent each year on the delivery of technology solutions.
This exciting opportunity will enable you to work closely with key stakeholders across the business to ensure the pipeline of work is up to date, ensuring there is capability and capacity available across the DDaT profession and contracts with suppliers are used effectively for supporting delivery. You will also work with the performance team to develop and maintain reporting to support effective delivery across the directorate.
Person specification
To meet the requirements of this role, you will have experience of successfully leading the delivery of change with significant business benefits and have demonstrable experience of influencing senior stakeholders to achieve delivery outcomes.
We are looking for a candidate that can use MI data for drafting reports and recommendations to inform decision making and hold delivery to account and has experience of high-level planning multiple streams of work in a pipeline across multiple areas of business to achieve successful delivery.
HMLR believe that a blended approach to where you work that enables some time working from home, as well as in the office may give you an improved experience and has clear business benefits. We expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office. Beyond this expectation, there is no one size fits all approach (and we can spend up to 100% working in the office if we prefer).
Join us in this key role and be instrumental in driving value and effectiveness within our Transformation and Technology directorate.
For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Knowledge and understanding of formal project and programme management and governance.
Benefits
#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
- We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
- We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
- We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
- We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.
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Selection process details
Please cut and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form when prompted and include your qualifications and career history.
Please also complete the technical question (in no more than 250 words) as requested:
- Knowledge and understanding of formal project and programme management and governance.
The personal statement section (in no more than 750 words) must be used to provide details of how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:
- High-level planning multiple streams of work in a pipeline across multiple areas of business to achieve successful delivery.
- Experience of working with stakeholders to understand needs and outcomes.
- Using MI data for drafting reports and recommendations to inform decision making and hold delivery to account.
In the event of a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to assess against the essential technical criteria first.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview week commencing Monday 19 February 2024.
The blended interview will assess the behaviours and experience listed in the candidate pack, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to the strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strengths questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working.
Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Please note, the Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure all examples provided throughout the entire recruitment process are of your own experience. HM Land Registry take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Any detected instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating, including the use of artificial intelligence, will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process.
You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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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