Deputy Director, Infrastructure Partnerships

Department for Business and Trade

Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 21st October 2024

 
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Details

Reference number

372429

Salary

£75,000 - £85,000
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DBT - BG - Sustainability and Infrastructure

Type of role

International Trade
Senior leadership
Other

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

London, Darlington, Birmingham , Salford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast.

Job summary

We work to maximise the contribution that the UK construction, infrastructure and energy sectors make to the Growth Mission.  Our teams support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country, helping shape and deliver the Industrial Strategy to secure a low-carbon, sustainable future for UK and international partners.  Our success is not measured purely by GDP figures, but by progress towards long-term, sustainable development that enables resilient growth across the UK and internationally.​

​We focus on: ​

  1. Delivery of high-quality infrastructure systems to meet current and future needs​
  2. Forming global partnerships and applying UK expertise to drive exports​
  3. Creating the right business environment and driving investment for the construction, infrastructure and energy sectors to ensure strong domestic capability able to compete in global markets​

​We are a diverse, friendly, and enthusiastic team with a wide range of expertise, knowledge and experience.  We actively encourage applications candidates who can complement and challenge us. If you are interested in the role but uncertain about your suitability, please contact us or join the candidate information session.​

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Job description

Infrastructure is a key priority for countries around the globe and essential to deliver sustainable development.  This role leads a diverse and high performing team joining up across different infrastructure sectors and working closely with legal, commercial, UKEF, the international network and companies. The team develop partnerships that enable countries around the world to benefit from the expertise and capabilities that UK businesses have, particularly for large and complex infrastructure projects and programmes, as well as driving economic growth for UK. It operates across organisational boundaries, co-ordinating with other parts of UK government such as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Infrastructure and Project Authority on international engagement to support the Growth Mission, as well as professional bodies, researchers and think tanks.​

​Responsibilities include:​

  • driving growth in exports of engineering and professional services by removing barriers for UK businesses to access key markets​
  • helping partners to understand and secure the value that sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems can offer​
  • encouraging ‘Team UK’ consortia including expertise on finance and funding, regulation and legislation​
  • partnering with like-minded countries that have complementary capabilities to work together on high quality infrastructure in third markets​

​The role provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate a combination of technical and team leadership as well as engagement with ministers, senior business leaders and international counterparts to make a tangible difference to people’s quality of life.  It is likely to suit someone who is ambitious, commercially aware and determined to achieve impact at a global scale.​

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Person specification

  • Outstanding people leadership across organisational boundaries, setting a common vision and leading diverse, high-performing and multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional success at pace​
  • Deep knowledge of the infrastructure sector and value offered by UK expertise and approaches internationally​
  • Understanding of how government partnerships function, and how they enable mutually beneficial relationships and opportunities for UK businesses​
  • Strong senior relationship and representational capabilities, including excellent communication and influencing with Ministers or equivalent, business executives, senior officials and international counterparts​
  • Excellent judgement and high intellectual energy, proven ability to navigate complex and rapidly evolving contexts, drawing out and communicating strategy to key audiences​

Desirable Criteria​

  • Experience of major international infrastructure projects and / or government partnerships
Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £21,727 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Selection process details

How to apply​​​

Please follow the online instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply for this role. Applications must be submitted no later than 23:55 on 21/10/2024.  ​

​You will be asked to upload the two documents outlined below.

It is essential you add your full name to both documents:​​

  1.  A CV setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role. Please provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years.​​​
  2.  A Supporting Statement of around two pages of A4, providing examples of how your experience meets the essential criteria.​​​

​Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. ​​

Candidate Information Call​

​The hiring manager for this position; Rodney Berkeley, will be hosting a virtual call for any interested applicants to discuss the role and answer any questions. Please note this is not part of the formal assessment process. 

This will be held via Microsoft Teams on 10th October 2024 at 14:00-15:00 (UK time).​

Please click here for the meeting link.​

​​If you encounter any issues or are unable to apply online please contact SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk in the first instance​.​

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This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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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
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Working for the Civil Service

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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 : SCS Recruitment Team
  • Email : SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk

Further information

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email at SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Civil Service Commission Complaints​

Attachments

Candidate Pack - Deputy Director, Infrastructure Partnerships Opens in new window (pdf, 5893kB)
DD Infrastructure Partnership- Accessible Candidate Pack Opens in new window (docx, 145kB)

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