Joint Head of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee Secretariat (Job-share)
Department for Transport
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 10th November 2024
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Job summary
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.
Would you relish the chance to be involved in making a difference for disabled people on the UK’s transport network?
Do you have great organisational skills and enjoy building positive working relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
Job description
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) comprises a broad range of experts in transport accessibility and inclusive travel, many of whom have lived experience of disability or non-visible impairments. The Committee provides advice on policy across all modes of transport.
This role sits in the Accessible and Inclusive Travel Division (AIT), within the Bus and Inclusion Directorate, part of the wider Public and Transport Local Group.
As the Joint Head of DPTAC Secretariat (jobshare), you will lead on embedding robust and efficient governance mechanisms and controls across the Committee, and on managing a regular rhythm of Main Committee and sub-Committee meetings effectively. This will involve working closely with a number of senior stakeholders, including DPTAC’s Chair Professor Matthew Campbell-Hill. Reporting to the Head of Accessible Travel, you will have line management responsibility for a small team comprising the secretariat management functions.
If you pride yourself on being organised, able to manage competing priorities and an excellent relationship-builder, then this role is for you. This high-profile interesting and demanding role is rewarding and offers a fantastic opportunity to have a direct influence and make a positive difference towards accessible travel.
Responsibilities
You will:
- Establish and maintain governance structures and processes for the oversight and coordination of DPTAC’s work programme and general activity.
- Create and maintain a coherent forward work programme that is informed by new policy developments and ministerial priorities.
- Facilitate appropriate contact between DPTAC and ministers, as well as officials within DfT and across Government, encouraging constructive relationships and collaborative working.
- Provide effective leadership of the DPTAC Secretariat Team, delivering a strategic and professional programme of Committee meetings.
- Work collaboratively to ensure work is completed in times of high pressure or leave, including providing resilience to other team members.
For full details please see attached role profile.
Person specification
About you
You will have excellent leadership skills, enabling you to provide support and direction to both your team and stakeholders.
You are outcomes - focused and self-reliant with a capacity to manage multiple competing priorities. You combine an ability to meet business-as-usual priorities with an understanding of the need to align with strategic objectives, consider the bigger picture and look beyond the status quo to see how things could be improved.
You create a strong sense of purpose, and influence those around you as you build effective working relationships with stakeholders, including those at a very senior level.
You take an evidence-based approach, are organised, and can deal with uncertainty and working at pace. You are confident and skilled in providing challenge where necessary to ensure the best outcomes are delivered. You are a confident and articulate communicator and have excellent written communication skills.
Additional information:
Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work Wednesday – Friday, 7.4 hours each day.
You will have the option to be based in our Leeds or Birmingham office attracting the National salary. Occasional travel to our London office will be required for key meetings and team events, approximately 1 to 2 times per quarter.
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.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Salary and pension will be calculated pro rata.
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.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.
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Selection process details
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and 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. Please tailor your CV to match the role and its responsibilities and within your Personal Statement (max 750 words) please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following:
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, being comfortable working on a regular basis with very senior leaders on a range of issues.
- Proven organisational skills and ability to work at pace, managing priorities and deadlines in a way that protects an inclusive culture and core values.
- Good leadership, with the ability to help build and develop functions within the context of a developing, relatively new team, engaging and motivating people to deliver in line with business objectives.
The sift is due to take place from week commencing 11 November 2024.
Interviews are likely to be held from week commencing 02 December 2024.
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
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices (for personal circumstances or reasonable adjustments). 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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If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Lauren Cresswell
- Email : Lauren.Cresswell@dft.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website Here
