Head of Maritime Resilience & Skills
Department for Transport
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 10th November 2024
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Job summary
Are you a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity?
Can you lead a team through a response crisis while ensuring their welfare?
Would you like to the opportunity to work across a broad range of crucial maritime issues working in partnership with the sector, and across Government, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, General Lighthouse Authorities and Marine Accident Investigation Branch?
If so, then we would love for you to apply!
Job description
The UK’s maritime and marine sectors are key to Britain’s economy, supplying at least £14 billion gross value added (GVA) and directly supporting 168,000 jobs. This puts our sector on the same scale as other high value industries like pharmaceutical manufacturing, aerospace, and the road freight industry.
The UK has a dynamic maritime industry with a highly privatised and liberalised ports sector and world-leading clusters of maritime professional services (insurance, ship brokering, legal services, etc). The global shipping sector carries over 80% of world trade, the volume of which is expected to double by 2030. The UK is therefore ideally positioned to exploit this and drive growth in the maritime sector.
The Maritime People & Safety Division is the central hub within DfT Maritime Directorate for all people-focused work-streams, while working with other policy areas to share operational experience, capability, and capacity.
People & Safety delivers essential core government work on: maritime resilience – both planned and reactive; enhancing recruitment and retention, skills, training and diversity in the sector; seafarer’s welfare and legislation; accessibility / passenger rights; and vital work to support the safety of navigation and maritime workers across the sector.
Responsibilities
Key accountabilities of the role include:
- Be an active member of the Maritime leadership team and contribute to making this an exciting, supportive and inclusive place to work.
- Manage two Team Leaders with 2nd line management for a wider team.
- Provide the skills, experience, capability, and capacity to support the Deputy Director in setting the strategic direction and the prioritisation of workstreams across the Division to ensure it aligns with the priorities of the Maritime Minister, and the Government’s missions.
- Work across DfT, other government departments and maritime stakeholders to develop knowledge and understanding of the opportunities and needs of the maritime sector.
- Demonstrate and deliver leadership for operational activities across the maritime directorate, standing up a maritime resilience hub in times of national crisis and champion key resilience projects to deliver the protection of the UK’s ports and maritime critical national infrastructure.
- You will also oversee the Maritime Resilience Out-of-hours team, a group of volunteers providing round-the-clock cover to respond to maritime incidents.
- On Skills, you will work with the sector – including the Maritime Skills Commission – and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to develop plans and strategies to ensure the UK maritime sector has the workforce to respond to current and future challenges – including green infrastructure.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
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Person specification
To succeed in this role, you need excellent drafting skills and the ability to distil information from various sources for senior officials. You excel in stakeholder engagement and can work collaboratively across government to resolve crises. You remain calm and effective during responses to unexpected events and lead your team through ambiguity.
You exhibit strong leadership, prioritising your team's well-being while delivering key tasks. You are confident and articulate, especially when communicating with senior officials on short notice.
Additional Information
We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.
Occasional travel to other DfT offices will be required.
You may also be required to work out of hours.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
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Selection process details
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and 1000 word personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
When considering applying please look at how your experience relates to the role, and within your CV and Personal Statement please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Building strong and positive relationships with senior colleagues and industry stakeholders at all levels, across departmental boundaries often with conflicting demands.
- Demonstrating leadership to motivate the team to ensure it meets its goals, whilst taking into account individual needs.
- Using the best available evidence to take decisions in a timely fashion.
- Working at pace, often in ambiguous circumstances, to deliver crucial operational response and advice to Senior Officials and or Ministers.
Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 1000 words.
The sift is due to take place from w/c 11th November.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held w/c 25th November.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview and a presentation.
This interview will be conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
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This job advert contains links to the DfT Careers website. Our website provides useful guidance and information that can support you during the application process. If you cannot access the information on our website for any reason, please email DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for assistance.
Further Information
For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website. You can find detailed information about the recruitment process and what to expect when applying for a role.
Pre-employment Checking
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
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- Name : Digital Resourcing
- Email : DigitalResourcing@dft.gov.uk
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- Email : dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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