Head of Executive Governance

4 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

Job summary

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

We are looking for a Head of Executive Governance to join the Secretariat to play a leading role in managing a high-quality service to the Permanent Secretary and DBT�s senior leadership.

The Secretariat sits at the heart of DBT in the Strategy and Private Office directorate. We oversee the Department�s governance framework and provide strategic and logistical support to the Departmental Board, Executive Committee, and their subcommittees.�

The successful candidate will need to operate collaboratively as part of the wider leadership team of the Secretariat, including taking a flexible, professional approach to planning, resourcing and prioritisation to ensure a high level of service is maintained across the Secretariat, with work fairly balanced across the whole team, and with an important focus maintained on the wellbeing and development of staff.

Upholding high standards of governance is a responsibility for this role, operating with integrity and observing the confidential nature of some of the work and ensuring that the principles of good governance are upheld.

Job description

The post-holder will work to the Department's Executive Committee (ExCo) and its subcommittees, ensuring the Department�s strategic priorities are gripped and delivered.

The Executive Committee meets fortnightly and is chaired by the Permanent Secretary. Its core membership is Directors General (DGs) and Permanent Secretaries.� ExCo oversees operational strategy and ensures the effective management of the Department. It makes decisions on sensitive, time-critical, operational and policy implementation issues that involve cross directorate or group trade-offs and/or have a cross departmental impact.

The three subcommittees are: Performance and Risk Committee, Investment Committee and People Committee.� A Shadow People Committee, brings in a greater diversity of voices into the Department�s decision-making processes.� Subcommittees are chaired by DGs and members are Directors.

The successful candidate will develop a strategic understanding of the Department�s priorities and will use that awareness to ensure the Committee is appropriately engaged across the breadth of the Department�s work.

Person specification

Personal Attributes and Skills

The successful candidate will take pride in directing a high performing team with a culture of exceptional customer service and continuous improvement.� They will be responsible for ensuring that a high quality of service for the Executive Committee and subcommittees is maintained.� This includes direct delivery and delivering through others and they will:

Build and manage close relationships with senior leaders across DBT and work collaboratively with internal teams to provide high quality service and products to the committees.�

Operate collaboratively as part of the wider Secretariat leadership team, taking a flexible, professional approach to planning, resourcing and prioritisation to ensure a high level of Secretariat service is maintained, with work fairly balanced across the whole team, and with a focus maintained on the wellbeing and development of staff.�

Lead and line manage five colleagues (a Senior Executive Officer, three Higher Executive Officers and an Executive Officer).� Demonstrating inclusive leadership skills and the ability to motivate and manage a diverse team to deliver at pace on a demanding and complex agenda.

Direct delivery and delivery through others, ensuring that: agendas reflect the Department�s priorities and are focused on the key collectively owned decisions that must be taken.�

Ensure papers are appropriately commissioned and quality assured, ensuring that the committees have the right material upon which to base decisions.�

Ensure actions are accurately recorded, agreed, commissioned and the delivery is tracked, with issues reported in a timely manner.�

Ensure high quality minutes are accurately recorded, produced, agreed and circulated within agreed timescales.�

Provide detailed, timely and high quality advice the Permanent Secretary and other senior leaders to ensure effective oversight of compliance with governance standards and integrity and effective implementation of a programme of continuous improvement in the quality of service.�

Essential Criteria

Be able to take the initiative, plan and prioritise and lead the team to deliver an ongoing programme of work across competing areas and demands, and achieve testing goals at pace.�

Have strong communication, customer service and relationship management skills and the self-assurance to lead on advice and briefing the Permanent Secretary and Committee chairs and members.�

Experience in drafting well-structured and clear written advice, including interpretation and use of data, at pace, strong attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset.�

Use sound judgement to know when to engage in developing risks and opportunities, bringing matters to the attention of the Deputy Director, Directors General and Permanent Secretary where appropriate.�

Ability to network with officials across the Department, keeping them engaged and bought and maintain their confidence in DBT�s corporate governance service as necessary.�

Demonstrate inclusive leadership skills and the ability to motivate and manage a diverse team to deliver at pace on a demanding and complex�agenda.

Behaviours

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

LeadershipManaging a Quality ServiceSeeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �53,560, Department for Business and Trade contributes �14,461 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an average employer contribution of 27%

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.

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