Deputy Director for Passports, Identity and Nationality Policy
Home Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 11th November 2024
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The challenge
The Home Office is central to UK life. Our work extends from devising drugs policies and ensuring the immigration system is not being abused, to delivering an accountable policing service. When you join us in this vital role, you’ll provide policy leadership and challenge to your operational colleagues in the Passport, Citizenship and Civil Registration (PCCR) and Visa, Status and Information Services (VSI) Directorates. Leading a team of around 30, your work will affect British citizens as well as users of the migration and borders system.
Job description
The role
This is an exciting time to join the Home Office, and you’ll be responsible for the full sweep of passport policy, working with His Majesty’s Passport Office to ensure the successful delivery of its on-going transformation programme. You’ll focus on supporting productivity and efficiency measures, enhancing the quality of decision-making and ensuring guidance is up-to-date and accurate. You’ll also work on nationality policy, the implementation of measures introduced under recent legislation, and oversee training for the Overseas Territories that discharge nationality functions.
Operating with colleagues across the Home Office on policies relating to identity assurance in the migration and borders system, your work will include the primary and secondary legislation that governs our use of biometrics, and oversight of litigation against some of our key biometric policies. Capable of demonstrating inspirational leadership, management and stakeholder engagement skills while providing expert advice to senior management and ministers, you’ll be flexible, have a strong focus on partnership working and be ready to support the drive for productivity and excellence in customer service.
Person specification
About you
With a proven track record of the end-to-end delivery of policy and legislative reforms that produce real world outcomes, you’ll possess sound decision-making skills and the ability to lead a large and diverse policy portfolio. Capable of empowering, supporting and working with a team spread over a wide geographical area, you’ll also be comfortable operating across a complex system with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver on multiple outcomes.
You’ll possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and with this in mind you’ll have the ability to develop positive relationships with Ministers and senior officials, and be comfortable working with ambiguity. Your strong analytical and problem-solving abilities will enable you to make data-driven and evidence-based policy development decisions, and any knowledge of the migration and borders system and passport, identity and nationality policies would be an advantage.
In return for your skills and expertise we can offer you a great career with one of the Government’s most interesting and inclusive departments. And with ongoing training and development opportunities and a highly competitive benefits package, there’s no saying where your career will take you at the Home Office.
For further information about this opportunity please refer to the candidate pack attached at the bottom of the page.
Benefits
- 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%
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Selection process details
Essential Criteria
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:
Policy and legal knowledge:
- A proven track record of delivering policy reforms that deliver real world outcomes.
- A strong understanding of the end-to-end delivery of policy and legislative reforms including sound decision-making.
Leadership and Strategic Management:
- An ability to lead a large and diverse policy portfolio, comfortable working with ambiguity.
- An ability to empower, support and work through a team spread over multiple locations (currently Liverpool, Peterborough, Sheffield, Durham, Cardiff and London).
- A track record of working across a complex system, drawing in a wide range of stakeholders with different priorities to deliver on multiple outcomes with a strong focus on supporting operations and business change.
Collaboration and Partnership:
- An ability to engage with Policy, Operations, and Legal to help design and deliver high quality policy and operational outcomes.
- An ability to work and build trust with Ministers and senior officials.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with external stakeholders, including Other Government Departments.
Analytical and Decision-Making Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, enabling data-driven decision-making and evidence-based policy development.
- Show good judgement in navigating through ambiguity and competing priorities.
Desirable Experience
- A good understanding of the Migration and Borders system.
- Knowledge of passport, identity and/or nationality policies.
Online Application
Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs on Monday 11th November 2024.
Provide some basic personal information;
A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Diversity Monitoring - as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview.
Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Kash Chand
- Email : Kash.Chand@homeoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
