Delivery officer for Scotland Team

Details

Reference number

324313

Salary

£32,178

£32,178 (National). For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Union and Devolution

Type of role

Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
Apply and further information

Location

Edinburgh

About the job

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Union and Devolution Directorate, playing a key role in delivering the UK Government’s flagship levelling up agenda in Scotland. This is an important role that will help us deliver key Levelling Up programmes in Scotland, as well as help us ensure Scotland’s voice is heard within the design of new programmes.
We are seeking a strong and dynamic team player. You will support work across a wide range of internal and external partners including central DLUHC teams, wider UK Area Teams, the Scottish Government, Scotland Office and other Government Departments to help drive economic growth and deliver the Government’s ambition to level-up. You will support the delivery of major funding programmes including the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund, the Community Ownership Fund, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the Green Freeport programme and the development of new Investment Zones, making a real difference to communities both in Scotland and across the UK.
You will be a key support to partnership work with local leaders and stakeholders to develop and deliver plans to boost local economic growth, to ensure our expertise and knowledge of places is taken into account in the development of tailored and effective policies and investments to improve places across Scotland. We are a well regarded team, priding ourselves on our collaborative approach and inclusive nature, and provide an excellent platform for everyone to further their career.

Job description

Working with G7 Area Leads to support the delivery of funding programmes including the £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund, UK Community Ownership Fund, Investment Zones and Green Freeports within an agreed portfolio of places across Scotland.
Working with areas in Scotland to ensure the unique ambitions, challenges and opportunities for economic growth in each area are understood, and feeding this into national discussion.
Supporting areas to achieve ambitions including through supporting them to access funding opportunities.
Providing strategic local knowledge and insight into the appraisal, assessment and decision-making process around funding, through discussions with both central DLUHC teams and individual places to help inform prioritisation of projects.
Maintaining relationship with local authorities, holding meetings to discuss programme performance and supporting interventions should delivery issues arise, and using these relationships to identify solutions.
Preparing high quality briefing material tailored for the audience (usually Ministers and Senior Civil Servants) and promoting, arranging, and supporting Ministerial and other visits to Scotland.
Maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across the wider public, private and third sectors as appropriate and using these relationships to lever solutions where issues arise.
Ensuring places submit programme level returns on time and use agreed performance management framework to ensure consistent delivery across all funds.

Person specification

You will be a dynamic individual with the ability to deliver at pace to meet the demands of a fast-moving policy agenda. You will contribute to the work of the team in a flexible and supportive way. You will approach relationships with all stakeholders (internal and external) in a constructive and solutions focussed manner.

Essential:

Excellent communication and influencing skills.
Highly dynamic and capable of delivering at pace.
Experience of stakeholder management.

Desirable:

Knowledge of the economic growth landscape within Scotland.
Previous experience of working with partner organisations, including local authorities, especially in the area of local economic growth, would be an advantage.
Experience of UKG levelling up funding streams.
Analytical skills.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,178, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £8,688 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 average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.

We are for everyone

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation.

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).

At application stage you will be asked to upload a CV document. Unless stated otherwise in the advert, your CV will not form part of the assessment but will be used for information purposes and only shared with the panel at interview stage.

Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.

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

When writing your application, remember:

The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!)

At sift, we will be assessing

Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) – Working Together

Behaviour 2 – Making Effective Decisions

Behaviour 3 – Communicating and Influencing

Behaviour 4 – Delivering at Pace

There is a 250 word limit per question.

In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progress straight to assessment/interview

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:
Behaviour – Working Together, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace
Strength
The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.

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

Behaviours: (Working Together, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace)
Strengths: (Yes)

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – 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.

HEO salary

The salary for this role is £32,178 (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 organisation’s terms and conditions.

BENEFITS:
Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018: Any move to DLUHC 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 DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

Edinburgh

The locations listed in this advert are the only locations available for this role and cannot be negotiated.

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES:
Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 20/11/23 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@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list.

Candidate Pack Information
Please see attached Candidate pack for further information.
Before starting your application it’s 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 DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules

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 DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC 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.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

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 Service

The 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.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name :

Alessandro Fusco

Email :

alessandro.fusco@levellingup.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email :

recruitment@communities.gov.uk