NCA Deputy Director Estates
National Crime Agency
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 18th November 2024
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Pay principles on Civil Service transfers apply for current civil servants transferring to the NCA at the equivalent grade. Cabinet Office pay policy on promotion applies to current civil servants.
If applying on Secondment and you are the equivalent grade you will remain on your current salary for the duration of your Secondment.
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Secondment
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Senior leadership
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Location
Please be aware that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted one location, please confirm one location only.
If you are posted to a location that you have requested and you do not accept that location, you may not be offered another role.
Under the NCA Estates Strategy, the London office is part of a planned relocation to a new NCA HQ in Stratford, London.
Relocation is expected to take place in 2025. If you are successful for a London role, please be aware that your post will be relocated from Spring Gardens, Vauxhall to Endeavour
Square, Stratford E20.
About the job
Job summary
Concordis Programme
The Concordis Programme was established in 2020 with the aim of enhancing capability, driving diversity, improving resilience and delivering great value for money.
It aims to deliver hubs across the UK containing the full range of Agency capabilities and services, maximising our partnerships across law enforcement, the UK intelligence community, industry and the wider system fighting serious and organised crime.
Concordis is more than an Estates move and we’re putting officers at the heart of everything we do by creating a working
environment that promotes collaboration within the Agency and with our various partners to enable operational delivery.
The current focus of Concordis is the closure of Spring Gardens and move to our new Headquarters, as well as expanding our footprint in the North West.
Job description
Responsibilities
DD Estates will provide the strategic leadership of the function which maintains the NCA estate and also delivers the transformational elements sitting within the CONCORDIS programme.
- Deliver the Estates Strategy and Estates Transformation Programme (CONCORDIS) – both Endeavour Square and other hubs.
- Support the CONCORDIS senior reporting officer to produce business cases to secure funding for future investment in the estate.
- Provide strategic leadership to the Estates team responsible for the three key estates functions (minor works, facilities management and planned, preventative and reactive maintenance)
- Ensure compliance with required legislation
- Manage the CONCORDIS and overall estate budget (c£80m) and drive value for money across programme delivery
- Lead on internal and external senior stakeholder engagement for CONCORDIS and estates works and projects including Cabinet Office, HMT and Home Office
- Instil best practice across facilities management and service performance ensuring effective contract management regimes are in place
- Manage functional compliance aligned to the Government Property Profession and Government Functional Standards; and,
- Support operations, corporate, and central service functions, to facilitate the NCA’s strategic objectives through provision of a fit for purpose estate.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
You will need to demonstrate the below essential criteria:
- Ability to lead a team strategically and inclusively to create safe spaces for employees and promote a diverse and talented workforce
- Demonstrable experience of Strategic Estates Management, including Property Contract Management
- Experience of budget management, business case creation and effective decision-making to increase value for money
- Strong communication, influencing and management of key stakeholders including those across government and senior leaders
- Full / Chartered Membership of a relevant Property Accreditation body (e.g. RICS, CIOB, IWFM or equivalent), or appropriate experience and willingness to become accredited upon appointment (with NCA support)
- Ability to acquire and retain Developed Vetting (DV) status
Benefits
Civil Service Pension
A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire.
If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us.
Annual Leave
25 days annual leave on entry (plus one privilege day for the King’s Birthday), plus 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 30 days after reaching 5 years continuous service (plus one privilege day for the King’s Birthday), plus 8 Bank Holidays.
If qualifying criteria is met new joiners to the NCA from UK Police Forces or UKIC will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for Annual Leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 30 days leave (plus 1 privilege day for the Kings Birthday).
Parental Leave
Family friendly policies including paid maternity, adoption, paternity and shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks.
Access to the government Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers.
Flexible Working
Flexible working arrangements allowing you to split your work between the office and home, subject to the nature of the role.
Alternative working patterns such as part-time and compressed hours options subject to business needs.
Support for officers who are Reservists and Special Constables.
Learning and Development
Access to a range of learning and development activities, and opportunities to support career progression
Paid time off to facilitate continuous professional development, and access to Civil Service Learning up to 5 days per year.
Wellbeing and Inclusion
Occupational sick pay and access to occupational health services.
A network of qualified Mental Health First Aiders and Workplace Support Officers, who can provide advice, signposting and support to all our officers.
On site facilities including fitness centres and canteens (where available). Access to a variety of active staff network groups.
Employee Savings
Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket.
Access to a wide range of discounts, offers and gift cards with a number of high street and online retailers through the Blue light Scheme and EdenRed.
Cycle2work salary sacrifice scheme to hire a bicycle up to the value of £4,000 to assist in improving health and fitness and save you money.
Access to a home and technology purchase scheme, allowing you to purchase items and spread the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
Key worker status, enabling access to accommodation at a discounted rate, subject to eligibility.
Access to a range of sports, leisure and health benefits at reduced prices through membership with Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC).
For further information on working for the NCA please visit:
https://www.civil-service- careers.gov.uk/national-crime-agency/
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Application Process
How to apply
To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process, outlined below. This should be completed no later than 23:55 on Monday 18th November 2024.
- Enter your CV details setting out your career history, including key responsibilities and achievements. It is essential that your CV reflects the role you are applying for. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any employment gaps within the last two years.
- A statement of suitability (no more than 1250 words) with detailed evidence of your skills and experience that relate to the Behaviours and criteria on page 12.
In order to monitor the effectiveness of the National Crime Agency’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy, the NCA require certain personal details about you on submission of your application. Please note that this will be treated in confidence and will not impact your application.
As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a diversity monitoring form. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the particular characteristics, you will have the option to select ‘prefer not to say’. All monitoring data will be treated in the strictest confidence and will not be provided to the selection panel. The information you provide when submitting your application will help us monitor our progress towards the Civil Service becoming the most inclusive employer.
Your application will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt.
Should you encounter any issues with your application please get in touch with our recruitment partners at the following email address: Ayden.davies@insightexecutive.co.uk
Complaints
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles or you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, please raise it with Rob.parker@insightexecutive.co.uk
Location
The roles are expected to be based in Birmingham, Bristol, London*, Warrington. Please ensure you are only selecting locations you are willing to work in as you may be offered a post in any of your location preferences.
Longlisting
The longlisting will be conducted against your submitted CV and Statement of Suitability.
Shortlist
A shortlisting meeting will be held in the week commencing Monday 18th November 2024 with successful candidates given more information about their final panel interview, which will be held virtually on MS Teams in the week commencing Monday 16th December 2024.
Final Panel Interview
The interview will be a competency-based interview assessing Success Profiles. More information about Success Profiles can be here.
At Interview we will explore technical experience in more depth, and align to behaviours:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Culture/EDI
You will also be asked to deliver a presentation at the time of your final panel interview.
A subsequent 1:1 interview may be offered following the final interview at the discretion of the vacancy holder.
Offer
Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible.
If your application is successful and we are unable to offer you a post immediately, you will be invited to join our reserve list so that we can continue to communicate with you regarding your employment with the Agency, and the incredible work that we do. If over the next 12 months we are able to offer you a position, we will contact you as soon as possible.
If you are found appointable at the higher grade but there are no positions available you may be offered an appointment at the lower grade.
If you are not found appointable at the advertised grade you may be offered the lower grade role if you are considered to meet the skills, experience and behaviours for the lower level. The benchmark for appointing to the lower grade is set at the start of each campaign. All offers will be made in merit.
Appointments will be made in adherence to the Civil Service Recruitment Principles and in strict merit order with the highest scoring candidates being appointed first.
The NCA is a law enforcement agency and as such we are part of the Criminal Justice System. Therefore, if you are going into an operational role we need to be aware if any of our officers have, either before they join us or afterwards, any of the following:
- Any criminal conviction (including by Court Martial), or caution or fixed penalty notice for disorder or theft;
- Any adverse judicial findings;
- Any charges or summonses where the proceedings are not complete;
- Any misconduct or gross misconduct findings or where proceedings are not complete.
You will be asked to complete a declaration form covering the above if offered a role with the NCA.
Each case will be considered on its merits and a positive declaration does not automatically mean that your application will not be progressed. However, should you fail to disclose a relevant matter then your application or employment will be adversely affected. If in doubt, please declare it at this stage.’
Indicative Timeline
Please note that these dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change. If you are unable to meet these time frames, please let us know in your application letter.
The anticipated timetable is as follows:
Advert Closing Date: 18th November 2024
Expected shortlist announcement: W/C 25th November 2024
Virtual Assessments: W/C 2nd December 2024
Virtual Interviews: W/C 16th December 2024
Pre-employment checks
Pre-employment checks take on average 16 weeks from the point of offer to arranging a start date. This includes vetting, occupational health assessments, employment history checks and substance misuse tests. This is an approximate time frame and is to be taken as a guideline only as this can very between candidates. This is dependent on when all requested documentation is provided.
Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, which may be likely to some change, and are asked to exercise flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.
Further Information
We will be holding an MS Teams virtual open evening event on Tuesday 12th November, 18:00 to 19:00. If you are interested in joining this event please register at Ayden.davies@insightexecutive.co.uk
Please note
The NCA is a 24/7 organisation, and working patterns must support business requirements. All SCS1 officers are expected to participate in an on-call rota (approx. 2 – 3 weeks per year).
On-call runs 1800-0800 Mon-Fri and 24/7 weekends and bank holidays and training will be given prior to joining the rota.
This is a corporate requirement and no additional remuneration is paid
Examples for on-call include staffing incidents; building issues (flooding etc); operational incidents; cross-government liaison.
Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
If successful you must hold SC Enhanced upon appointment, and be able to obtain security clearance Developed Vetting (DV) once in post.
We want to recruit and retain the very best and broadest diversity of officers so the NCA welcomes applications from individuals from all minority backgrounds and protected characteristics.
Please be aware that you can be posted to any location that you put in your preferences. If you would only like to be posted one location, please confirm one location only.
If you are posted to a location that you have requested and you do not accept that location, you may not be offered another role.
Successful candidates may be required to undertake a medical. If required, the medical will take place in either London or Warrington. Unfortunately, travel costs will not be reimbursed.
Contact Us
We encourage all candidates to thoroughly review the Candidate Information Pack which explains the role and requirements further before applying. If you have any specific queries about the role that is not covered by the candidate pack, please contact: scs.appointments@nca.gov.uk
For information regarding your rights and how NCA treat the personal details you provide to us please follow this link:
https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/privacy-and-cookie-policy
Did you know that the NCA employs a broad range of specialist volunteers who work with us as NCA Specials?
Why not volunteer as an NCA Special and support us in leading the UK’s fight to cut serious and organised crime? To find out more about volunteering opportunities within the agency, please visit us at: https://www.civil-service careers.gov.uk/national-crime-agency/
For more information on careers at the NCA please visit https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/national-crime-agency/
DRIVING DIVERSITY FORWARD
The NCA is an inclusive employer committed to developing a workforce which reflects the society we protect. We value difference, and recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. More information can be found on http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/
If you would like the application form in a different format, please contact the Recruitment agent via email to: Ayden.davies@insightexecutive.co.uk
The NCA complies with and expects all its employees to reflect the values outlined in the Civil Service Code, for further information please review the code.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : SCS Recruitment Team
- Email : scsrecruitment@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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- Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance you should contact; rob.parker@insightexecutive.co.uk
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk and more information can be found at www.civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
