Overview

Position Title: Deputy Director For People Performance

Company: UK Civil Service

Location: Sheffield, UK

Job Description:

As part of the RIS senior leadership team, there is a collective leadership challenge to lead the organisation and its people through a period of transformational change. Specifically this role will involve:
Leading the Directorate’s change portfolio, chairing the Directorate Change Board responsible for: delivering a prioritised programme of investment in innovation products; leading the programme of automation to deliver efficiencies across RIS, and leading the change portfolio ensuring business readiness across a wide and complex landscape of change impacting on RIS.
Leading key corporate functions: People strategy; Performance Delivery; Business and Financial Planning; Strategic Workforce Planning; and corporate support services.
Representing RIS at a range of senior governance boards across HMRC and RIS, establishing excellent relationships with senior stakeholders and positively influencing strategic planning and developments.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading the People function, ensuring strategies are in place to deliver well-being, inclusion, diversity and positive engagement across our workforce, making RIS a great place to work.
  • Leading the corporate governance function, liaising with NAO and Internal Audit to provide audit assurance,
  • Leading the implementation of the Race Equality Action Plan.
  • Leading the financial and resource planning function ensuring strategic workforce plans and business plans are achievable, affordable and deliver the Directorate’s performance objectives.
  • Business continuity and governance assurance with CCG.
  • Leading the performance reporting and management function, proactively assessing and challenging performance, mitigating risks and addressing issues.
  • Representing RIS in the wider Customer Compliance Group (CCG) and HMRC corporate functions.
  • Implementing Business Readiness plans to safely and properly implement wider HMRC programmes.
  • Leading the Change Programme, implementing a programme of Continuous Improvement, automation and innovation to deliver required annual efficiencies and enable improved outcomes for wider operational colleagues.
  • Leading engagement with Directorate level Trade Union colleagues.

Requirements:

  • Confident leading in uncertainty and ambiguity.
  • An experienced people leader who prioritises inclusion and development of teams, driving improvements in our colleague experience that are felt at all levels across large teams.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining an effective performance measurement framework.
  • Experience of shaping the strategic direction of an organisation.
  • Ability to quickly build and navigate relationships with senior leaders in a large, complex organisation building credibility and trust.
  • Experience in leading and delivering cross-cutting priorities.
  • Demonstrable experience in delivering innovative assurance and risk management activities that improve the control environment.
  • Previous knowledge, experience and practical expertise in business planning, including control of budgets and allocation of resources.

About UK Civil Service

The Civil Service delivers public services and supports the government of the day to develop and implement its policies. The work civil servants do touches all aspects of life in the UK, from education and the environment, to transport and defence. Civil servants are politically impartial. Together, we ensure the effective running of government and provide the best possible services to the public.