Departmental Planning

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

- 301714**Salary**:

- £66,860 - £80,341-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Finance Group**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, SheffieldAbout the job

**Job summary**:
DWP is one of the largest government departments, operating at a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in the country.

It is at the heart of the Government’s agenda for tackling social injustice and poverty and leading our national recovery, including helping people into work and providing support through the current cost of living crisis. DWP touches the lives of over 22 million people every day and provides financial assistance of over £180 billion per year to ensure that the most vulnerable people in society are protected. DWP is one of the few Government Departments that is both a policy Department but also a front-line delivery organisation.

This is an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. The Finance Group sits at the heart of the department, influencing and shaping the policy and delivery of our front-line services. The Group is responsible for shaping the future strategy of DWP; making payments; maximising the value we deliver on behalf of taxpayers from our resources; procuring commercial services for the department; and delivering services safely and securely through Risk Management, Security and Estates.

The departmental planning and performance team is a relatively small team of 20 staff made up of three G6 led teams covering: planning delivery and performance; planning assurance and reporting and this post, planning development and performance. The team has been in existence for 18 months and was established to develop a single cross-departmental overview and plan to ensure the whole department is working towards the same goals and to keep delivery on track.

**Postings**
- Birmingham 3 Arena Central, Bridge Street, Birmingham B1 2AX
- London - Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London, SW1V 9NA.
- Blackpool Peel Park, Brunel Way, Blackpool FY4 5ES
- Leeds - Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UA.
- Manchester - 2 St Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 3AA.
- Newcastle - Benton Park View, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE98 1BA.
- Sheffield - Hartshead Square, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S1 2FD.
- Some travel may be required, but individuals’ circumstances will be taken into account.

**Job description**:
A challenging and demanding role, with responsibility for monitoring and reporting on progress against the Outcome Delivery Plan (ODP) (the Plan) to the Executive Team, Secretary of State and the Department Board, driving performance conversations at Executive Team and Board level and leading and motivating a high performing team. The post provides a high degree of autonomy, extensive development opportunities and significant exposure to the top of the office. The current post holder is leaving on promotion to the SCS.

**Responsibilities**

You will lead on these core areas:
**Tracking and Reporting**: Maintain, develop and iterate a set of consistent and balanced performance metrics in Performance Framework aligned to the Plan to report against and provide assurance of progress against the Plan, including leading indicators. Through these, manage timely centralised reporting (including power point and automated dashboards) to streamline and visualise data points, continuously developing the products in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders across the Department to provide accessible data to inform decision making internally and externally to DWP.

**Driving strategic performance conversations at Executive level**:Conduct holistic reviews of performance against the Plan and sharing insights. Driving effective conversations at Executive Team and with ministers by highlighting areas of interest/concern which are either cross-cutting, systemic successes or challenges, or items significant to our ability to deliver elements of the ODP.

**Strategic Alignment and Impacting**: Drive alignment and best practice across DWP for the creation and use of performance metrics. Using relevant fora (including some owned by you) and effective stakeholder management up to an including Director General level to ensure a focus on outcomes (drawing a golden thread between our Strategic Outcomes and activities across the department), a single version of the truth (i.e. the same data sources are used in reporting across the Department), and reducing duplication (internally and externally) by linking source data through the use of the DWP Management Information platform.

**Leadership and Management**:Ensuring the strategic direction of the team and its activities is aligne