Head of Dft Public Appointments

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Transport Full time

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

- 295880**Salary**:

- £61,940- National Minimum - £61,940 and London Minimum - £66,748**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Corporate Delivery Group (CDG) - Shareholding & Corporate Sponsorship**Type of role**:

- Governance
- Policy
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you a leader who leads with inspiration and empowers individuals to deliver positive outcomes?

Can you communicate effectively, building trust to work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders?

Do you have experience of recruiting senior and/ or high profile roles in the public or private sector?

If so, then we would love for you to apply

**Job description**:
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Department for Transport’s Public Appointments Team as it expands to manage public appointments across the Department’s wide range of public bodies. You will lead a high-performing function that sets the standard for best practice in central government recruitment, by learning from recruitment across all sectors. Appointing capable and diverse leaders to our boards is vitally important to the effective and efficient delivery of Government’s priorities; your role will make all the difference.

**Responsibilities**

**_ Include, but not limited to:_**
- Ensuring that DfT is at the forefront of best practice in public appointments by learning from recruitment across all sectors.
- Working with partners including Cabinet Office, No.10 and the Commissioner for Public Appointments to ensure effective forward planning, co-ordination and compliance in all our appointments.

For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.

**Person specification**:
**Personal Specification**

To be successful in the role you will have excellent leadership skills. You will be able to engage your team in an ambitious vision for success and build a team structure and skillset to meet your objectives. You will have well-developed communication skills, with the ability to build trust and negotiate with multiple partners to navigate complex situations where the reputation of the Department and excellent value for the taxpayer are paramount. You will be able to inspire your team to continuously improve the service we deliver, engaging across the public and private sectors and seeking new ways of delivering. You will be adept at developing a broad network of colleagues and partners within and outside DfT to achieve common goals, and you will use your relationships to remove barriers to your team’s progress. You will have a strong focus on customer service, inviting feedback to understand the complexity of customer needs and expectations, whilst identifying the most cost effective and efficient delivery methods. Above all, you will inspire confidence from Ministers and senior leaders in the consistently high-quality service that your team delivers.

**Additional Information**

A minimum of 40% 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.

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

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**How to apply**
- Experience of recruitment to senior and/or high-profile roles in the public or private sector.
- Experience of building and developing the capabilities and skills required of people within a team.
- Experience of understanding complex customer needs and delivering an excellent service to meet those.

***Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 750 words.

The sift is due to take place from week commencing 20th July.

Interviews/assessments are likely to be held week commencing 31st July.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result,

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