Career Development Manager for the Government Finance Function (GFF)
HM Treasury
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 17th November 2024
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Job summary
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.
Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.
We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you!
Job description
Public Spending Group
The Public Spending Group is a high-profile and rewarding place to work. We help the Chancellor decide what to spend £1.2trillion a year on and ensure government delivers value for money for the taxpayer. We are responsible for reporting to Parliament and the public on how taxpayers’ money is spent. We drive forward improved outcomes and efficiency in public services and make sure value for money is at the centre of decision-making through better evaluation, data and analysis.
We advise on overall government policy on public sector pay and pensions, the biggest single driver of public spending. We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance, debt and risk capability across government and developing the management information, tools and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money.
The Government Finance Function (GFF)
The GFF ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government – delivering value for money, strengthening public trust.
The Finance Function comprises of over 8,500 FTE spread across 39 Government organisations.
The Function needs to move at pace to make further progress towards its vision and the decision has been taken to strengthen and formalise the functional centre for the Government Finance Function, aligned to the Civil Service Functional Leadership model.
The People and Capability Team
This role sits within the People & Capability team. Priorities for the team include:
- Developing a high performing, capable and diverse Function for the future, with great people in the right roles with the right skills now and in the future.
- Learning & Development (L&D) – the Government Finance Academy (GFA), determining the future strategy for the GFA ensuring a future focussed and sustainable model to deliver a high quality learning and development offer for the Government Finance Function.
- Career Framework: Standardising expectations of skills, qualifications and experience required to succeed in roles across GFF, supporting attraction, development and retention of diverse talent across the function.
- Talent Management: developing a robust and diverse talent pipeline through a dynamic and engaging talent management strategy.
- Encouraging a diverse and inclusive environment across the Finance Function.
- Developing an attractive reward and retention strategy to help attract and retain great people.
- Resourcing and strategic workforce planning to ensure succession plans are in place for the function’s pivotal roles.
- Building excellent links with networks across Government to utilise expert services and embed our initiatives in departments, sharing knowledge, best practice and resource.
As the Career Development Manager for the Government Finance Function, you will be joining our team of Finance, HR and L&D Professionals who are responsible for leading the GFF People and Capability offer for the function across government.
At the heart of this work is developing professional capability for the Government Finance Function, ensuring a high quality, evidenced based, diverse and value for money professional skills offer for the GFF (c8500 people) and developing our Finance Career Framework to ensure staff working across Government Finance have clearly defined roles to work in, and access to exciting and varied career pathways across government.
This role provides an excellent opportunity to work across Government and Professional boundaries, working on 2 key work areas within the People & Capability team, the Finance Career Framework (civilservice.gov.uk) and the Finance Professional Development teams.
The role will have responsibility for managing and supporting the Finance Professional Development offer, including Accelerated Development programmes, Finance Fast Stream, Finance Apprenticeships, and to support professional development linking into the Government Finance Academy wider learning offer as well as supporting the evolution and development of the Finance Career Framework and implementation of the Skills Capture Tool to help us understand and develop skills and capabilities across the GFF.
Success in this role will require you to work across and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across organisational boundaries as a trusted partner, utilising your skills and experience to build a strong network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to drive outcomes for the Government Finance Function.
This role plays a key role in shaping these high profile areas of Government Finance, supporting professional capability and shaping the standards for the Government Finance Function of the future within the Career Framework, the role will support interaction with key governance groups and senior stakeholders and will link across all areas of finance capability within the GFF.
Key accountabilities include:
- Overseeing development and delivery of the Finance Fast Stream offer, ensuring and the offer is designed to support the individual learning pathways for each Fast streamer, some 200+ individuals across the function.
- Developing the Apprenticeship offer for the function, working with broad networks, to develop a streamlined, professional, accessible offer linking to functional workforce requirements, ensuring best value for the function and optimum efficiency.
- Building and maintaining relationships with the Accountancy Institutes and other partners to support professional development and training of staff across the GFF.
- Project management of the Career Framework and Finance Professional Development programmes, ensuring target milestones are met and any emerging risks are understood and managed, communication and commissions are completed to time.
- Responsibility for updating and evolving the Finance Career framework, working with senior sponsors and workstream leads to co-ordinate activity.
- Supporting delivery and roll out of the Skills Capture Tool supporting monthly reporting of take up across the function, reviewing insight and highlights to understand skills needs across the function and reporting to Departments.
- Finance Career stories/pathways - lead work to work to develop, arrange, schedule a programme of colleague stories from across the function to promote development, use of CF, linking to L&D interventions, promoting diverse and engaging stories.
- Data management - working with data analysis manage and wider team to ensure we have robust data on capability and profession requirements, training needs and skills gap analysis. Ensure alumni databases, including all GFF profession schemes cohorts are captured and tracked to assess efficacy of interventions.
- Working with Career Framework and Profession leads to provide regular updates to functional management and People Committee, drafting papers and providing a secretariat to the Career Framework Steering Group
- Lead on relationship management with Fast Stream and Apprentice representatives and networks, ensuring regular communication and engagement supporting groups of staff from GFF perspective and identification of any training and development needs.
- Lead on functional and professional mentoring programme and guidance.
Candidate Drop-In Session
We will be running a candidate drop-in session for this role to give you greater insight about the role as well as the chance to learn more about HM Treasury and the recruitment process. If you would like to join us, then use the appropriate link below to join the call at the right time.
Tuesday 12th November 2pm - 2:45pm
If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact Katrina.williams@hmtreasury.gov.uk or Suzanne.ibbotson@hmtreasury.gov.uk
Person specification
We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.
Behaviours:
- Communicating and Influencing - Communicate purpose and direction with clarity, integrity, and enthusiasm with wide range of stakeholders. Respect the needs, responses, and opinions of others, shaping initiatives together with an outcomes focused approach.
- Working Together - Form and nurture effective partnerships, building relationships with people and finance communities across the function including a range of diverse backgrounds. Focus on creating and sharing information, resources, and support as a team.
- Changing and Improving – Be curious and seek out opportunities to create effective change and suggest innovative ideas for enhancement. Review ways of working, including seeking and providing feedback and deploy change programs with realised benefits within defined timescales.
- Experience - Significant experience of working in finance function or similar function or hr/capability area
The lead criterion is: Communicating and Influencing
If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.
Required Qualifications:
Finance qualified or part-qualified (CCAB or CIMA), or experience working across the finance function with good understanding of finance activity and roles.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
- Generous parental and adoption leave package.
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28%
- Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
- Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
- A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests and diversity
Flexible Working Arrangements
HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.
At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites - Darlington, London, and Norwich, and along with the rest of the Civil Service, has an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.
The office working expectation is linked to the location of the role. If you apply to a post in a single location, then you will not be able to meet this expectation at any of our other sites or move your role to another location.
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Selection process details
Recruitment Timeline
Closing date: Sunday 17th November
Shortlisting: From Monday 18th November
Interviews: From Monday 2nd December
This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.
If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.
Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.
Location-Based Reserve Lists
You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a post immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be approached for roles in merit order according to the first preferred location stated on your application form.
Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer. We would still encourage you to apply for other HM Treasury opportunities that you are interested in. If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or you are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.
Eligibility Statement
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.
Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)
To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis once the advert closing date has passed.
Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.
These short videos address common concerns and preconceptions which applicants may have about national security vetting. If you have questions relating to security clearances, please contact HMTSecurityVetting@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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Job contact :
- Name : Katrina Williams or Suzanne Ibbotson
- Email : katrina.williams@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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- Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk
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