JOB SUMMARY

We are hiring for several roles in the Public Sector Reform team. This growing team is responsible for the government’s overarching strategy to reform public services, including: designing and delivering a new £100m programme of community help partnerships; leading government-wide digital reform and transformation; and working in partnership with the impact economy. Exact role responsibilities will depend on business needs and the specific strengths of successful candidates.
This team sits within the wider Public Sector Reform and Efficiency Director General group, which is also responsible for the Test, Learn and Grown innovation programme, Civil Service Reform, and the government’s vision for a Productive and Agile State.
The roles will involve building strong, productive relationships within the DG group, with political colleagues, with teams in other departments and local government who are delivering services and leading reforms, and with a wide range of external stakeholders.
Successful candidates will therefore require: strong interpersonal skills, including the confidence to invite challenge from experts and seniors; openness to innovative approaches from outside government; the ability to make clear decisions drawing on very diverse evidence and perspectives; and the ability to clearly communicate these decisions and perspectives in written and verbal advice to seniors and political colleagues.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are recruiting for several SEO roles in the Public Sector Reform team. Although exact role responsibilities will depend on business needs and the specific strengths of successful candidates, we expect roles to support the team’s work in several areas:

• Designing and launching a new £100m programme of community help partnerships, which will reform support for adults facing multiple disadvantage by integrating health, housing, employment and other services while enabling better prevention. This is a joint CO-MHCLG initiative that will be designed and delivered in partnership with other departments and Local Authorities. Responsibilities could include supporting strategic policy development, programme management, and oversight of governance and stakeholder engagement;
• Secretariat function for inter-ministerial groups including the Digital IMG, and strategic policy support for the government’s ambition to drive public sector digital and AI transformation;
• Bringing together work across the government’s reform agenda into a coherent strategy and narrative;
• Partnering with the impact economy (impact investment, social investment, philanthropy, social enterprises and similar organisations). Responsibilities could include supporting the design of CO-led programmes, managing CO’s external communications with the impact economy, and leading Ministerial and senior briefing.

APPLICATION PROCESS

At sift we will be assessing Experience and one Behaviour:

• CV (no more than 2 pages)
• Personal Statement (up to 500 words)
• Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing

Please provide a personal statement of no more than 500 words. It should explain how your knowledge, skills and experience (using examples) meet the requirements for this role in line with the Success Profile element(s) being assessed (e.g. Behaviours, Experience etc). Using the job advert information, particularly the job description and person specification. Information is available on the application process (including what Civil Service Success Profiles is) and how to write your personal statement.
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be undertaken of only CVs. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:

Behaviours:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture

Strengths.

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)
• 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

We are recruiting for several SEO roles in the Public Sector Reform team. Although exact role responsibilities will depend on business needs and the specific strengths of successful candidates, we expect roles to support the team’s work in several areas:

• Designing and launching a new £100m programme of community help partnerships, which will reform support for adults facing multiple disadvantage by integrating health, housing, employment and other services while enabling better prevention. This is a joint CO-MHCLG initiative that will be designed and delivered in partnership with other departments and Local Authorities. Responsibilities could include supporting strategic policy development, programme management, and oversight of governance and stakeholder engagement;
• Secretariat function for inter-ministerial groups including the Digital IMG, and strategic policy support for the government’s ambition to drive public sector digital and AI transformation;
• Bringing together work across the government’s reform agenda into a coherent strategy and narrative;
• Partnering with the impact economy (impact investment, social investment, philanthropy, social enterprises and similar organisations). Responsibilities could include supporting the design of CO-led programmes, managing CO’s external communications with the impact economy, and leading Ministerial and senior briefing