Head of Innovation, Strategy and Resilience

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 345759**Salary**:

- £64,108**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 12 months with the possibility of extension or permanency**Business area**:

- DFT - Aviation, Maritime and Security Group (AMS) - Transport Security Directorate**Type of role**:

- Science
- Security
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Birmingham, LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you passionate about how science and technology can be used to solve problems?

Would you be comfortable working with uncertainty, not be afraid to test concepts and use innovative thinking?

Do you have strong leadership skills and can motivate others to deliver high quality outcomes?

Have you got excellent communication skills and can build effective working relationships?

If so, we have an exciting and unique role where you will be given the freedom to be creative whilst working in a priority government area, and we’d love to hear from you

**Job description**:
The Division is responsible for providing robust evidence and advice to security and resilience policy teams across the Department, ensuring people and goods get to their destination without disruption.

Sitting within the postholder’s portfolio are three programmes of work for which they are accountable.

**_ Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: _**
- **Team leadership**
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high impact S&T programmes, fostering a culture of trying new things and learning if they don’t succeed.
- Maintain team motivation and performance, developing the team’s expertise to meet current and future needs.
- ** Programme delivery**
- Set the direction and ambition of the new Transport Security Innovation programme.
- Oversee the delivery and exploitation of the Resilience Science programme, ensuring that its content meets the needs of the various departmental customers and delivers impactful outputs.
- Seek innovative approaches and routes to delivery across both programmes, making best use of resources to deliver value for money.
- ** Setting long term strategic direction**
- Lead initiatives which anticipate future developments in technology and transport, quantifying the opportunities or threats they present.
- Influence the development of future-proofed transport security and resilience policies so they are informed by the opportunities and threats technology poses.
- Influence the development of new cross-government security and resilience strategies to ensure the S&T component is coherent with the Department and that our programmes align with them.
- ** Divisional and Directorate leadership**
- Take an active role in leading the continual improvement of both the Division and Directorate.
- Support the NSSR Deputy Director, which this post reports to, and Transport Security Directorate (TSD) Director as a member of the senior management team. Includes deputising at senior cross-Government meetings.
- ** External partnerships**
- Build effective relationships across Government communities, transport operators, suppliers, academia, and international partners. Influence and leverage these relationships to enable effective and efficient delivery of the Division’s priority outcomes.

For more information, please see the attached Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**About You**

You will have excellent communication skills and you gain rapport quickly with others as you build effective working relationships with both colleagues and stakeholders.

You will have confidence in your ability to come in and make a real impact within our team, where you will lead from the front and drive those around you to achieve the same shared strategic objectives. You will be comfortable working with uncertainty and freedom to try out new concepts.

You will have experience delivering successful technical projects or programmes and can develop and communicate long term strategic visons.

**Additional Information**

A minimum **60%** of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

The post holder will be required to travel to London around two or three times per month in order to spend time with their London-based team. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the Department. The role will also require occasional travel within the UK and possibly abroad.

This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis to cover a maternity leave cover for a period of 12 months, however there is the possibility of extension or permanency.

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