Public Sector Leadership Opportunity

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

Company Overview

The Department for Work and Pensions is a leading organisation in welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. Our mission is to help people move into employment, support pensioners, and protect vulnerable individuals in our society.

About the Role

We are seeking an exceptional Public Sector Leader to join our team as an HEO Operational Leader in Universal Credit. As a key member of our front-line operations, you will play a vital role in creating an environment that supports flexible, effective, and personalised customer service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead by example and provide inspiration, direction, and support to colleagues by communicating corporate changes with clarity and purpose.
  • Create a culture that promotes, supports, and delivers improvements to performance and customer service through strong, inclusive, and effective leadership.
  • Be innovative and lead activities to support efficiencies and improvements to service delivery.
  • Create an environment that empowers others to do the right thing for customers, being responsible for delivering an excellent service to achieve quality outcomes.
  • Operate as part of a team focused on agreed goals and priorities to achieve collective commitments, effectively managing resources in an ever-changing organisational structure to drive efficiencies and keep costs down.
  • Accountable for managing workloads, attendance, and conducting regular face-to-face performance reviews confidently addressing risks to performance.

Requirements

  • Strong leadership and coaching skills, able to identify and support the development needs of themselves and others to reach standards and digital capability.
  • Excellent people engagement skills and a focus on building collaborative working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the wider team and Department.
  • Ability to work flexibly to meet changing priorities, managing a diverse workload, and optimising resources to meet current and future customer expectations.
  • Ability to positively inspire, encourage, and influence others to obtain buy-in from colleagues, actively seeking and listening to feedback by encouraging discussion and ideas in support of the long-term DWP vision and acting on feedback.
  • Ability to critically analyse products and processes, including MI, to identify areas for action, resolving issues, and making suggestions for improvement.

Salary and Benefits

This exciting opportunity comes with a competitive salary of £39,209 per annum, plus benefits, including:

  • A generous annual leave package, with at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part-time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
  • Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme, and an employee discount scheme.
  • Health and wellbeing support, including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA, a first-class programme of competitions, activities, and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
  • Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career, including industry-recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring, and talent development programmes.
  • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks, including the Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE), and many more.

About Us

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

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