Overview

Position Title: Deputy Director For People Performance & Change

Company: UK Civil Service

Location: Bristol, 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:

  • Strategic workforce planning, recruitment and capability build.
  • Delivery of the Directorate Change Programme, change management and business readiness for a wide range of Departmental – led Change Programmes
  • Directorate business planning.
  • Directorate performance reporting and management.
  • Delivery of the Directorate Programme of Continuous Improvement.
  • Directorate corporate governance, risk management, assurance and reporting.
  • Directorate People strategy, developing and implementing strategies for: talent development, inclusion, well-being; and engagement.

Requirements:

  • Demonstrable experience in delivering innovative assurance and risk management activities that improve the control environment.
  • Experience of shaping the strategic direction of an organisation.
  • 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.
  • Confident leading in uncertainty and ambiguity.
  • Experience in leading and delivering cross-cutting priorities.
  • Experience in developing and maintaining an effective performance measurement framework.
  • Previous knowledge, experience and practical expertise in business planning, including control of budgets and allocation of resources.
  • Ability to quickly build and navigate relationships with senior leaders in a large, complex organisation building credibility and trust.

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.