Divisional Business Officer – 33,706 p.a. + benefits

Leeds

Job Summary
We are currently looking for a
Divisional Business Officer
to join our
Delivery
function within the
Digital and Technology
group.

This is a
full-time
opportunity, on a 12
month fixed term contract/internal move or temporary promotion
basis. The role will be based in 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. We are currently implementing a flexible, hybrid way of working, with a minimum of 4 days per month working on site to enable the collaboration and contact with partners and stakeholders needed to deliver MHRA business. Attendance on site is driven by business needs so depending on the nature of the role, this can flex up to 8 days a month, with the remainder of time worked either remotely or in the office. Some roles will need to be on site more regularly. Remote working is potentially available for some specific roles. Please discuss this with the recruiting manager before accepting an appointment.

Who are we?
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.

The Digital and Technology Group (DTG) lies at the heart of the Agency and is responsible for delivering an optimised IT infrastructure and maximising the secure use of data to enable the rest of the organisation to deliver world class services. Its centre of excellence is also responsible for delivering a broad portfolio of change initiatives, both to transform the Agency's legacy technologies and to deliver innovative new solutions, designed around our customers' needs. DTG works in a holistic way to combine digital and technology change, project deliver, business process, product management and cultural change to maximise out impact and ensure sustainability.

Job Description
What's the role?
This role is responsible for a wide range of critical activities which support and enable the smooth and efficient running of the Digital and Technology Group, including supporting the effective management of recruitment and engagement of staff, coordinating a wide range of Division wide activities, such as Group events, resource management, staff communication, and supporting ad hoc projects across the Group. This is a critical role at the heart of a dynamic Division with an ambitious agenda.

*Key Responsibilities:*

• Resource management: supporting the division to ensure that it has the right people with the right skills at the right time to deliver its strategy and Corporate Delivery Plan objectives, by supporting DTG recruitment, and overseeing the maintenance of the Group's staff and onboarding and leavers activities.
• Communication and staff engagement: ensuring that DTG communicates and engages with its staff to make the division a great place to work and to support its ability to attract and retain high performing staff
• Business management: ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the Division, through supporting the Head of Strategic Business Operations, Chief Digital and Technology Officer and Senior Leadership Team.
• Supporting Operational colleagues in delivering services. Ensuring efficient and effective business support across a range of operational administrative tasks.
• Supporting delivery of a full range of business operation services to support the effective working of all staff.
• Information management: oversight of the Group's main SharePoint sites, ensuring information is current, relevant and accessible.
• Project Management and Delivery with the Head of Strategic Business Operations: supporting and leading ad hoc other projects to support the delivery of DTG's priorities.
• Supporting colleagues within the Divisional Business Office and providing cover when they are away from the office.

Who are we looking for?
Our Successful Candidate Will Have:

• Track record of organisational and management skills and evidence of being able to work on multiple projects and activities simultaneously
• Proven ability to work with discretion and capability in own area
• Strong networking skills with evidence of building and maintaining relationships and leveraging them to deliver effective business outcomes

What's the role?
This role is responsible for a wide range of critical activities which support and enable the smooth and efficient running of the Digital and Technology Group, including supporting the effective management of recruitment and engagement of staff, coordinating a wide range of Division wide activities, such as Group events, resource management, staff communication, and supporting ad hoc projects across the Group. This is a critical role at the heart of a dynamic Division with an ambitious agenda.

Our Successful Candidate Will Have:

• Track record of organisational and management skills and evidence of being able to work on multiple projects and activities simultaneously
• Proven ability to work with discretion and capability in own area
• Strong networking skills with evidence of building and maintaining relationships and leveraging them to deliver effective business outcomes

Person specification

*Person Specification:
Method of assessment: A=Application, I=Interview
Behaviour Criteria:*

• Communicating and influencing (I)
• Working together (I)
• Delivering at pace (I)

*Experience Criteria:*

• Track record of organisational and management skills and evidence of being able to work on multiple projects and activities simultaneously (A, I)
• Proven ability to work with discretion and capability in own area (A, I)
• Strong networking skills with evidence of building and maintaining relationships and leveraging them to deliver effective business outcomes (A, I)

*Technical Criteria:*

• Operational Leadership and Management (Practitioner).: Understanding the whole system, its complexity and interdepencies and how to maximise this understanding to lead the delivery of a quality service with a view on the future and vision (A)
• Adaptability to Change (Working).: Flexible in accepting and evolving to change. Learns and adapts quickly to new skills, including innovation and digitalisation of services to support improved outcomes (A)

*Strengths Criteria:*

• Confident (I)
• Organiser (I)
• Catalyst (I)

If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, find out more here.

Alongside your salary of £33,706, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency contributes £9,764 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave on entry, rising by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days and pro-rata for part-time staff. PLUS 8 bank holidays
• Privilege Leave: 1 day
• Hours of Work: 37 hours (net) per week for full time staff in all geographical locations, including London and pro rata for part-time staff
• Occupational Sick Pay (OSP): One month full pay/one month half pay on entry, rising by one month for each completed year of service to a maximum of five months full pay/five months half pay
• Mobility: Mobility clause in contracts allowing staff to be mobile across the Civil Service
• Civil Service Pension Scheme.  Please see the link for further information For enquiries relating to the Civil Service Pension Schemes please contact MyCSP's Pension Service Centre directly on
• Flexible working to ensure staff maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Interest free season ticket loan or bike loan
• Employee Assistance Services and access to the Civil Service Benevolent Fund
• Eligibility to join the Civil Service Motoring Association (CSMA)
• Variety of staff and Civil Service clubs
• On-going learning and development

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

*The Selection Process:*
We use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess our candidates, find out more here.

• Application, which will include a CV, which should demonstrate how you meet the Experience and Technical Success Profile criteria. Please submit your application to Michael Page by visiting this website
• Interview, which can include questions based on the Behaviour, Experience, Technical and Strengths Success Profiles.

Closing date: 10am 5th January

Shortlisting date: from 12th January

Interview date: from 20th January

Candidates will be contacted within a week of the sift and the interviews completed to inform them of the outcome.

Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here.

Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements. If you have any queries, please contact

In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should firstly contact Florentina Oyelami, Head of Talent Acquisition,

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at:

Civil Service Commission

Room G/8

1 Horse Guards Road

London

SW1A 2HQ

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : The Resourcing Team
• Email :

Recruitment team

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Further information

In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact the Resourcing Team at , in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: - - Civil Service Commission Room G/8 1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ