Director of Corporate Development

British Transport Police Authority

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Details

Reference number

368630

Salary

£122,307 - £122,307
London allowance of £3033.56, if applicable.

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2
SCS Director Level Equivalent Grade

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Business Management and Improvement
Commercial
Corporate Finance
Estates

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

National

Job summary

The BTPA wishes to appoint a Director of Corporate Development to its Chief Officer Group to strengthen the leadership of BTP at this important time of change and modernisation. The Chief Officer Group is focused on delivery of the Strategy through inspiring and motivating the workforce, setting direction and culture that builds employee, public, commercial and organisational confidence and trust in a specialist national policing service.

As an active member of the Chief Officer Group (COG), the successful candidate will be expected to provide strong and visible leadership that brings to life our Strategy by ensuring a modern and inclusive culture in which our people are well-equipped, well-trained, well-led and well-cared for and diversity is valued.


Job description

Key Accountabilities

  • Financial Control - Working closely with the BTPA Chief Financial Officer, who has overall financial control, lead and oversee BTP finance management including the Force response to fiscal events.
  • Commercial Services – Lead the work of the Commercial Department seeking continuous improvement in service levels delivered to stakeholders and keeping strategic oversight of contract management ensuring performance delivery of contractors and value for money.
  • Estates – Lead the work of the Estates function, overseeing the performance of our outsourced facilities contract and the estates refurbishment and relocation programme, including a new Force Headquarters in London.
  • Future Governance – Take an innovative lead on finance, estates, and commercial transformation work, having regard to immediate and longer-term implications, opportunities, and risk. Ensure business decisions are fully considered and aligned with key strategies.

Person specification

Experience and Skills

Essential Experience and Skills:

  • Able to manage substantial strategic financial, people and material resources, demonstrating commercial acumen to balance complex, competing resource demands by making appropriate risk-based decisions within the available budget
  • Proven ability to drive efficiencies and identify commercial opportunities, for the benefit of the Force, stakeholders, and the public.
  • Experience of providing strategic financial management advice and guidance and able to build a reputation as a trusted advisor.
  • A leader with a track record of building high performing teams and instituting a culture of individuals being supported, developed, and motivated.
  • Strong analytical abilities and previous experience of effective change management and implementation at an organisational scale.

Desirable Experience and Skills:

  • Knowledge of developing political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors and an understanding of the implications for strategic planning.
  • Able to distil complex information and provide concise, relevant and timely briefs at an executive level to inspire confidence.
  • Able to analyst a wide range of information to identify emerging trends and issues and use these to inform strategic planning and hold the Force to account for performance and behaviours.
  • Hold a recognised professional finance qualification.
  • The remuneration package comprises a salary of £122,307.
  • London Weighting Allowance of £3,033.56 per annum, if applicable.
  • 28 days leave per annum, rising to 30 days with 5 years’ service. The leave year runs 1 January to 31 December.
  • Police staff pension scheme.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role.
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.

Selection process details

Further details, including how to apply, and information on the selection process is available from the following link: 

Director of Corporate Development - British Transport Police (tal.net) 



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 2 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.
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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
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.

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 : Susan Kohler, Head of Governance and People, BTPA.
  • Email : Susan.Kohler@btp.police.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : Susan.Kohler@btp.police.uk

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