Contracts & Funding Team Leader

at  Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities

JOB SUMMARY

The Communities and Integration Directorate is at the heart of the Government’s commitment to level up opportunity across diverse communities. Through our deep engagement with communities and local authorities across the country, we use the latest data and evidence to improve people’s quality of life in the places they live. Your role will sit alongside teams delivering programmes and projects that impact on communities across the country.
You will lead the funding and contract management relationships with delivery partners on projects of a national significance. Previous examples we have managed within our directorate include the Windrush Memorial, now positioned within Waterloo Station

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the day-to-day relationship with our Delivery Partner, as well as tracking performance against KPIs and managing actions, issues and risks.
• Embedding strong project management – scoping, managing/ tracking deliverables, managing risks and resources effectively, and ensuring that accountable decision making is well managed through effective governance.
• Establishing and managing rigorous monitoring and reporting regimes to ensure the team has clear oversight of where and how money is being spent; embedding learning and evaluation.
• Providing reports / presentations / decision making within the governance structure
• Collaborating with policy colleagues and core functions such as Commercial, Finance, Legal and Comms, as well as wider government and external stakeholders – to ensure that the project runs smoothly and meets its objectives.
• Working with the Faith and Belief team on stakeholder engagement. As a project of national significance, you will need to be comfortable with communicating with high profile stakeholders.
• You will also support work on other contracts and funding agreements across the division which will benefit from your experience and expertise.

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)

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Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the day-to-day relationship with our Delivery Partner, as well as tracking performance against KPIs and managing actions, issues and risks.
• Embedding strong project management – scoping, managing/ tracking deliverables, managing risks and resources effectively, and ensuring that accountable decision making is well managed through effective governance.
• Establishing and managing rigorous monitoring and reporting regimes to ensure the team has clear oversight of where and how money is being spent; embedding learning and evaluation.
• Providing reports / presentations / decision making within the governance structure
• Collaborating with policy colleagues and core functions such as Commercial, Finance, Legal and Comms, as well as wider government and external stakeholders – to ensure that the project runs smoothly and meets its objectives.
• Working with the Faith and Belief team on stakeholder engagement. As a project of national significance, you will need to be comfortable with communicating with high profile stakeholders.
• You will also support work on other contracts and funding agreements across the division which will benefit from your experience and expertise

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role.

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