Innovation Lead

5 months ago


Lawrence Hill, United Kingdom Planning Inspectorate Full time

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

- 326643**Salary**:

- £58,326 - £63,418- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- PINS - Strategy**Type of role**:

- Business Management and Improvement**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, South West England, BS1 6PNAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Innovation is mission-critical. At the Planning Inspectorate our mission is to provide consistently timely, high-quality and cost-effective decisions, recommendations and advice. In three years from now we intend to have delivered our ambition have a more efficient, proportionate and streamlined approach; a leader in bringing the planning system together; and an even better place to work, valuing and building the expertise of our workforce.

The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy.

We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services.

For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please see the information pack attached. You can also view our careers page at Civil Service Careers

**Job description**:
We aim to provide greater certainty to those who use our services. However, the pace and degree of change in the world around us means our approach to providing that certainty must be dynamic. Societal trends, increasing digitalisation and the state of the economy will affect our casework, our performance and our people in the coming years. We know we need to respond to these changes quickly and confidently. We must adopt innovative approaches to make the impact and changes we need to allow us to continue to deliver a meaningful and efficient service to citizens.

In the short and medium term there is a need for the Innovation Lead to identify and find innovative solutions to business problems to help unblock the path for existing work and programmes of work in flight. This will involve working closely with the relevant heads of service and project teams to identify issues and recommend and deliver innovative solutions to support progress. Looking to the longer-term, we need to establish and maintain a culture of innovation and improvement, supporting delivery of the innovation mission for Civil Service Reform, which aims to_ _reward and encourage our staff to find innovative solutions to problems in order to deliver better outcomes for the public._ _

**Hybrid working**

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- ** **Experience of delivering innovation let activities and projects that deliver tangible results, including researching and implementing innovative trends and solutions
- Experience of leadership of internal and external teams in the delivery of both complex project as well as smaller, iterative business change improvements
- Experience of building effective and supportive relationships within teams across the organisation and with stakeholders
- Experience of effectively managing budgets, risks and issues and supplier relationships
- Experience of communicating, influencing and operating clearly and effectively at all levels and positively and successfully reacting to challenge

**Desirable Criteria**
- ** **Awareness of the Government Service Manual
- Understanding of the UK planning sector

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

- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £58,326, Planning Inspectorate contributes £16,272 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Flexible working options, including flexi-time, part-time, compressed hours and home working if suitable for the role.
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity.
- 25 days annual leave increasing by 1 day per year up to 30 days after 5 years, plus 1 privilege day to mark the King’s birthday. In addition to the normal bank holidays.
- Generous family friendly policies.
- Fast and modern IT kit which utilises Windows 10 and Microsoft 365, enabling seamless working from home and collaboration across teams.

For full information see our Benefits information pack.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**Application**
- Experience of delivering innovation led activities and projects that deli


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