Head of Planning, Reporting and Governance

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

- 402091

**Salary**:

- £55,557 - £66,058
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DWP - People and Capability

**Type of role**:

- Human Resources

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
DWP is looking to fill one role within the Strategic Reward Team, People and Capability Directorate.

As the Head of Planning, Reporting and Governance, your role encompasses but not limited to lead the development and provide strategic oversight to the Reward Strategy project, ensuring continuous innovation and improvement. Establish and maintain qualitative reporting tools, including a Strategic Reward Dashboard, to deliver key metrics for senior leaders and track progress against priorities.

In this role you will provide robust challenge and act as a critical friend to ensure effective delivery of plans, risks, and reporting. Capture decisions and dependencies for robust governance and present a holistic view of team activity.**Maintain the forward look of governance activity, ensuring planning, templates, and secretariats are engaged. Direct and support daily stand-ups to ensure actions are owned, progressed, and unblocked. Build trusted relationships for effective engagement. Facilitate meetings with the Pay team to drive connectivity and maintain a joint plan with tracked milestones.

**Job description**:

- Lead the development of and provide ongoing strategic insight and wider oversight to the Reward Strategy project product set in support of its activity across DWP and wider as needed while also ensuring innovation and improvement is at the heart of continuous improvement.
- Establish and maintain qualitative reporting tools, including a Strategic Reward Dashboard to deliver clear key metrics for senior leaders and progress against Departmental and Director led Priorities.
- Provide robust challenge and act as critical friend to all strands of Reward Strategy activity to ensure effective delivery of plans, risks, and reporting, capturing decisions and dependencies enabling robust governance of our work, presenting the holistic view and forward look on Reward Strategy team activity. Using the planning activity maintain the forward look of governance activity across the team ensuring planned in, templates completed, and secretariats engaged.
- Provide direction and support for daily stand ups across the team to ensure actions are owned, progressed, and unblocked in a timely fashion, building credible trusted relationships to get the most of this engagement.
- Facilitate checkpoint meetings across this team and our partners in the Pay team to help drive increased connectivity across our work, including developing and maintaining a joint plan with critical milestones captured and tracked.
- Act as risk lead for the team, engaging with risk experts and other stakeholders as needed to ensure escalation / mitigation activity is taking place.
- Work with our comms and engagement lead to ensure messaging and stakeholder management is consistent.
- Own the workforce planning activity for the Strategic Reward team.
- Ensure Information management across the team is upheld in line with Departmental Policies - ensuring the relevant record keeping is undertaken (registered files and internal audit trails), DPIA is held and updated accordingly.
- Managing through the team the secretariat activity for the expected Steering Group structure that will be put in place.
- As a member of People & Capability, actively participate in the leadership and management of our function.

**Person specification**:

- Proven experience of managing HR projects, developing and maintaining robust plans, risks and action / decision logs, and timely reporting.** (LEAD CRITERIA).**:

- An understanding of HR activities, specifically ideally in the reward space, to enable critical friend activity.
- Proven experience in managing HR change and engaging senior stakeholders with that change.
- Strong evidence of the ability to engage colleagues with planning and reporting methodologies and influencing across a range of stakeholders.
- Track record of delivering to challenging timescales and working through ambiguity.
- Ability to build strong, credible, and trusted relationships quickly.

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

- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £55,557, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £16,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what be