Head of Public Appointments

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

- 385064

**Salary**:

- £67,520 - £70,500
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 6
- Range E2

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HMT - Ministerial and Communications

**Type of role**:

- Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- This post is based in Darlington (Feethams House).

About the job

**Job summary**:
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you

**Job description**:
**About the Group**

**Ministerial and Communications (MinComm)**

The Ministerial and Communications Group sits at the heart of the Treasury. If you are interested in the inner workings of government, meeting ministers, senior officials and liaising with the press then this could be the place for you We are a friendly and inclusive Group working on some of the most exciting issues of the day, bringing together work from across the rest of the department and engaging closely with partners across Whitehall and beyond.

We provide support to ministers, through ministerial offices. We act as Treasury's external face, through the Press Office and Communications team. We are responsible for managing the department, through our support for the Permanent Secretary, the Second Permanent Secretaries, the Treasury Board, and the Executive Management Board (EMB), and our ownership of Treasury governance structures.

**About the Team**

The Public Appointments & Corporate Governance Team is a recently created team within the MinComm Group that is led by an E2 (this role), and consist of two branches:

- The Corporate Governance branch, which is an established team consisting of a Head of Governance, two governance officers and a conflicts officer. Together they play a critical role in enabling the strategic oversight of the department, overseeing all aspects of the department’s governance processes, including acting as the secretariat to the Executive Management Board and Treasury Board and their sub-committees, and owning the relationship with departmental non-executive directors.
- The Public Appointments branch, which consists of three other individuals, who provide a centre of expertise on public appointments within HMT and guide the process for all the appointments HMT is responsible for, including some of the most high-profile roles with huge national significance, such as the Governor of the Bank of England.

**About the Job**

This is an exciting role at the heart of the Treasury. Reporting to the Chief of Staff to the Permanent Secretary, the postholder will play a key role in ensuring the senior echelons of the department are focusing on the key strategic issues - discussing the right issues at the right time.

This role will also play a key part in the leadership of the Ministerial & Communications Group. They will be an active member of the Group Management Team and will particularly be expected to provide corporate leadership to those based in Darlington, where they will be the most senior member of the group.

**The key accountabilities of the post are**:

- Providing inclusive and effective leadership and management to the Public Appointments and Corporate Governance Team, as well as supportive line management of four DGs’ private offices. Together this will mean line management or countersigning management of fifteen people of varying grades. These are distinct teams, and strong leadership will be required to build a unified and supporting team culture.
- Being responsible for the Corporate Governance team - working with the Executive Management Board to ensure that the department’s governance is effective and that the relevant boards and committees are operating in a joined up and strategic manner, discussing pertinent issues at the right times.
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