Deputy Director - Modern Slavery Unit
Home Office
Apply before 11:35 pm on Sunday 29th September 2024
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You’ll lead two small teams of around 30 staff, and ensure the UK meets its international legal obligations relating to victims of modern slavery. Taking responsibility for the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the UK’s system for identifying and protecting modern slavery victims, you’ll work closely with the Single Competent Authority, which has operational responsibility for the NRM. We’ll expect you to ensure all adult victims of slavery receive needs-based support to assist their recovery, and design a future adult victim support model for the Government’s procurement of a new contract. You’ll also have policy responsibility for child victims, work that will include existing NRM decision making policy, a devolved decision making pilot and the Independent Child Trafficking Guardians programme.
You’ll have a wide range of additional responsibilities, including managing litigation associated with policy areas, and co-leading the MSU’s relationships with key stakeholders, including Non-Government Organisations, Local Authorities, First Responder Organisations and Devolved Administrations. You’ll also take joint responsibility for the Unit’s corporate governance, work that will include managing significant budgets, scrutinising financial, management and performance information, and identifying and mitigating key risks.
With plenty of experience working in a fast-paced policy role, and capable of coming to grips with difficult issues and driving solutions, you’ll be a highly effective and inspirational leader, comfortable working in a high-profile environment, and visible and approachable to everyone you work with. Your excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills will allow you to translate complex policy issues for a range of audiences, and you’ll also have the ability to forge positive strategic partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Committed to creating a high-performance culture where everyone delivers their best, some experience of working closely with Ministers and senior external colleagues would be desirable. In addition, experience of leading change programmes and developing and implementing legislation would be a bonus.
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.
Person specification
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:
- Experience in a fast-paced policy role, able to grip difficult policy issues and drive solutions.
- A highly effective and inspirational leader who is comfortable leading in a high-profile environment, and who is visible and approachable to all colleagues and stakeholders.
- An excellent communicator, you will have excellent written skills and an ability to translate complex policy issues for a range of audiences.
- Excellent stakeholder management and an ability to forge effective strategic partnerships.
- A highly capable leader who can motivate and inspire staff from all backgrounds and create a high-performance culture where everyone delivers their best.
Desirable Criteria:
- Experience of working closely with Ministers and senior external colleagues.
- Experience of leading change programmes.
- Experience of developing and implementing legislation.
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 average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
1.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;
2.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.
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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Job contact :
- Name : Matt Hibbert
- Email : matthew.hibbert@homeoffice.gov.uk
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- Email : HORCSCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk
