Project assurance manager

Crown Commercial Service

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Reference number

375343

Salary

£43,575 - £48,438

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Band 4

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Location

Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich

About the job

Job summary

Would you like to be part of a passionate team whose main role is to ensure CCS is making the right investment including change decisions, keeping those investments on track and realising the expected returns on those investments and expected benefits

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Assurance Manager to provide independent assessment and confirmation that a project/programme is on track, that it is being appropriately managed and that its activities and business rationale remain aligned to the organisation’s objectives. This includes ensuring reviews are scheduled and delivered to enable scrutiny of the project to meet its objectives and benefits stated within the business case.

Directorate overview

Finance, Planning and Performance (FPP) oversees financial reporting, develops budgets and projections, formulates business plans, tracks implementation progress, measures success metrics and manages corporate risk.

To learn more about FPP click here

Team Summary

The Investment Assurance Team (IAT) maintains a single view of strategic change across CCS to ensure that all programmes are working towards delivery of the CCS corporate objectives. It is there to ensure that the delivery and impact of change across the organisation as a whole is managed effectively. Change can impact people, processes and/or systems, it is therefore critical that the IAT ensures that change is managed in a consistent way across the organisation.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for leading a number of assurance activities across either one or several projectsPlanning and ownership of a 12 month assurance pipeline containing both current and post project reviews
Responsible for ensuring projects or programmes have appropriate levels of assurance for the complexity of the project.
Preparing, drafting and delivering health-check reports to Senior Responsible Officers (SRO) and internal governance groups.
Responsible for arranging and holding monthly Health Check RAID reviews on our more complex projects and programmes
Ensuring that agreed actions are implemented, and that any lessons learned are applied to future change initiatives.
Building relationships with wider 3rd party audit
(e.g Government Internal Audit Agency) to aid planning and oversight of audit actions and tracking their completion.

Person specification

Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

Previous practical experience of Project Delivery
Extensive knowledge and experience of leading project/programme assurance or Internal Audit Gated Reviews
Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritise the Healthcheck pipeline and attached activities in an ever changing environment.
Significant experience of building strong relationships across a range of stakeholders with ability to give unpopular results .
Interpersonal skills to work with a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
Ability to understand and explain issues in a concise and straightforward way

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,575, Crown Commercial Service contributes £12,623 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

What we will offer you:

Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Explore fully how we will reward your work.

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

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 and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence WC 04-11-24 and interviews will be held WC via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

To find out more about our recruitment process please click here

Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 6 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

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 : The recruitment team
Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints procedure

Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance. If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk

https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/careers-with-ccs