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Digital Business Support Lead
UK Civil Service • Wolverhampton, United Kingdom • via LinkedIn
1 day ago
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Location

Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Wolverhampton

About The Job

Job summary

Are you proactive in seeking resolutions and can resolve issues that arise through innovative thinking?

Do you enjoy building solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Business Support Lead to join our team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and we'd love to hear from you!

Here at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to peoples lives. As a digital business support lead for MHCLG you will be working on one of the Governments most high profile and exemplar digital services, containing two of the CDDO Flagship 75 services. The Digital Business Support Lead is someone who enjoys problem solving and working in an agile way, responsible for the day-to-day contracts, finance and commercials for the portfolio, as well as owning a complex range of unique HR and information management processes within a Digital team comprised of internal and third-party suppliers.

This role will support overall commercial and financial responsibilities for all the commercial arrangements relating to Digital Elections (including but not limited to commercial MoUs, subscriptions, license arrangements and contracts). This will include leading on varied HR aspects of the team, including security clearances, recruitment and inductions. This job should not be confused with that of either a finance or HR business partner, as this is not the case. The role will require developing a substantial amount of digital Subject Matter Expertise.

Job Description

As a Digital Business Support Lead, youll:
• Build and maintain strong relationships with the providers of key elections and registration digital financial arrangements, supporting management of the financial arrangements with these providers that cumulatively deliver services critical to the UKs democracy and monitoring effective service delivery against agreed KPIs and other contract terms.
• Use initiative to solve contractual issues as they arise, in accordance with the department's contract management framework and ways of working, working collaboratively and at pace to find and enact suitable solutions.
• Work closely with the departments Commercial and Finance teams, informing decisions regarding procurement strategy for this suite of services. This includes working with the centralised Corporate function, and the incumbent contract manager.
• Help drive and support procurement exercises as required including the contract renewal process for the services within the portfolio and undertake contract administration and maintenance of accurate contract management records.
• Ensure that all DES business cases receive approval and drive through the relevant purchase orders with the finance team, working closely with suppliers to obtain necessary documentation and further approvals. The role holder will lead on the preparation of business cases working alongside SMEs, get all approvals, ensure the PO(s) is raised, keep suppliers updated, obtain quotes, respond to queries from financial colleagues etc
• Lead on all recruitment, onboarding and induction for a wide range of civil servants, fast-streamer, interns and third-party developers, with a high throughput on an ongoing basis.
• Be responsible for Data, Knowledge and Information Management for the portfolio, including ensuring we are legally compliant for our GDPR and FOI obligations, as well as fully owning the JML processes for all members of the Digital team (this is inclusive of third-party developers).

Person specification

As a Digital Business Support Lead, Youll:
• Demonstrate experience of working within a contract management or related financial environment, with experience of tendering and procurement independently.
• Have experience of writing business cases for a range of digital services and owning the related complex approval processes.
• Demonstrate experience of leading multiple HR processes from end-to-end in full and with complete autonomy.
• Have experience of working in a digital environment, or a demonstrable interest in digital services.
• Lead and support engagement with key external stakeholders acting as a representative of the department working closely with providers/suppliers of key digital services
• Work alongside departmental colleagues to understand the broader context of elections and registration policy and ensure alignment with wider government commercial policy
• Demonstrate excellent organisational skills and the ability to apply project management techniques including governance and oversight, monitoring performance, and effective risk management to keep delivery on track
• Have proven strong verbal and written communication with the ability to communicate effectively to a range of internal stakeholders, Ministers and external stakeholders.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,531, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £15,7+7 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
• 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 employer contribution of 28.+7%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

As part of our pre-employment checking process, we will be using your CV to confirm your job history. Please note that by providing us with your CV you are consenting to us using the information enclosed as part of the checking process.

CV and Cover Letter Declaration

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment.

Please Remove References To Your:
• name/title
• educational institutions
• age
• gender
• email address
• postal address
• phone number
• nationality/immigration status

You will need to merge your CV and covering letter into one document. When submitting your application Applied will ask you to upload a CV, when doing this you should upload your merged document of your CV and covering letter.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that your application would be viewed by different assessors.

At sift, through your CV and covering letter we will be assessing:

Experience

Technical Ability

Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page showing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description, and why you are interested in this specific role.

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:

Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at Pace

Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

Experience: Presentation

Candidates will be expected to deliver a presentation at interview stage, the details of which would be provided upon invitation.

In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements:

Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Delivering at Pace

Strengths: The strength-based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

Experience: CV & Covering Letter, Presentation

Technical Ability: CV & Covering Letter

Please contact the vacancy manager if you have any questions about the role.

We do not consider direct CV applications you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs.

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.

Grade 7 salary
• The salary for this role is £54,531 (National).
• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. If you apply for a role that requires a transfer of location, for example if you are transferring from London to a National location, your salary will be adjusted in accordance with our policy on transfer between HQ pay ranges.

Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisations terms and conditions.  

Benefits

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018:

Any move to MHCLG 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.

For further information about the benefits available to MHCLG employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

Location
• Wolverhampton
• Bristol
• Leeds
• Manchester

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.

Sift and Interview dates

Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 24th February 2025 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.

Reserve List

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@communities.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list.

SC (Security Check):

Important note

Successful candidates for this role must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Check and the process can take up to 8 weeks to complete.

Please note that successful candidates will need to pass the Security Check this requires you to have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years. Please refer to the MHCLG Notes on Security Clearance section of our Candidate Pack for further information on Security Check (SC).

Candidates should also note that with effect from 1st August 2018 the department will also check all applicants who are successful at interview, against the Internal Fraud Database (IFD) held by the Cabinet Office. In accordance with the Civil Service Internal Fraud Policy, any applicant who is included on the IFD will be refused employment by MHCLG. Please see the Candidate Pack for further information on the Internal Fraud Database.

Before starting your application its very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the MHCLG candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules

Candidate Pack Information

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information.

Internal Fraud Database

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to MHCLG as a participating government organisations. MHCLG then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.SecuritySuccessful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).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 ServiceThe Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.Diversity and InclusionThe Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This Vacancy Is Part Of The Great Place To Work For Veterans (opens In a New Window) Initiative.Once This Job Has Closed, The Job Advert Will No Longer Be Available. You May Want To Save a Copy For Your Records.Contact Point For ApplicantsJob Contact :
• Name : Basam Diablos
• Email : Basam.Diablos@communities.gov.uk

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DIO Forestry Graduate Scheme
UK Civil Service • England, United Kingdom • via LinkedIn
1 day ago
Full–time
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• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Westdown Camp, Tilshead, Wiltshire, SP3 4RS

About The Job

Job summary

Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is the estate expert providing advice on infrastructure and estate management across the defence estate in the UK and overseas. Do you want to influence the way almost 1% of the UK land area is managed? DIO manages the largest and most diverse part of the public estate, which has been described as the most important estate for wildlife and natural capital in the country with 37% designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Managing the estate in a sustainable way enables the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work and train. It also supports wider government objectives and the public by delivering a range of ecosystem services ranging from pollinators, carbon sequestration and nature recovery.

Through our people, experience, skills and data, we are the Defence estate experts. We are the primary provider of Defence infrastructure and estate management advice both in the UK and overseas. We support the Armed Forces to enable military capability, and by delivering infrastructure improvements and estate management in a sustainable way we seek to improve the experience for our service personnel, their families and defence civilians to live work and train across the estate.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job Description

The MOD Estate includes MOD Barracks, Airfields, Naval Bases and a vast training estate that extends from the marine environment, through dune systems and across the UK to the mountainous forests and moorlands of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Forestry Team supporting the development and management of this multifaceted, heavily designated estate with an emphasis on tree safety management, sustainable woodland management and woodland creation.

As a Graduate Forester you will work towards gaining your Professional Membership with the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF).

DIO Technical Services

Technical Services provides in-house expertise to DIO and the wider MOD; the specialist skills available through the Technical Services team span natural capital, environmental planning, sustainable development, climate resilience, forestry, access & recreation, archaeology and historic buildings, as well as ecology.

Person specification

You will work within a small team in the DIO Technical Services Environmental Management, Protection and Sustainability (EMPS) business area.

During Your Time As a Graduate Forester, You Will:
• Support Head Foresters with audit and assurance inspections, which will focus on health and safety, compliance with MOD policy and legislation forestry/arboricultural operations and industry partner contract delivery.
• Adhere to health and safety protocols and guidelines while working in outdoor and woodland environments.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of sustainable forestry practices and management plans.
• Assist in conducting field surveys and assessments to gather data on forest ecosystems, biodiversity, and habitat conservation.
• Assist in the preparation of long-term forest plans, reports, presentations, and other materials related to forestry and tree related projects.
• Collaborate with MoD staff and external partners to support wider engagement and knowledge about trees, woods and forests.
• Support Head Foresters with desktop and site inspections to identify possible woodland creation opportunities, collaborating closely with military representatives and the wider DIO team for each site.

Qualifications

You must have, or will achieve by September 2025,

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