Head of Programme Management

Head of Programme Management Closing : 5th April 2020 Salary : £51,000 - £64,498 Are you looking for a unique opportunity to build and develop a brand-new team; setting up and leading the programme management office for a new initiative that will change Treasury through the establishment of a new policy office in the north of England; leading HM Treasury in diversifying its culture and workforce? If this sounds like you, please get in touch. For some time, HM Treasury has been considering the case for a second policy location outside London. We want to attract a greater range of diversity and perspectives to strengthen our teams' ability to advise Ministers and develop economic policy. This will also allow us to be more reflective of the country as a whole. A second location will support the government’s levelling up agenda and help shift the gravity of economic decision making away from London and the south east. To do this efficiently, HM Treasury will need to change the way it works, both in terms of how and where we develop policy and make decisions and in the technology we use to support our teams. Currently, our policy development capabilities are based in a single office in London, with a small office in Norwich that houses Treasury Group Shared Services. Our intention is to move away from this model and locate policy officials in a new office in the north of England. We know this will require significant culture change across the whole department to ensure the new location is effective in the long-term. This new multi-site model will help our efforts to recruit and retain a high-performing and diverse workforce that is representative of the public it serves. The Treasury Future Location team will deliver a wide-ranging programme of work, with cross-departmental workstreams, to deliver a multi-site model that is capable of supporting work to meet the department’s objectives and continue to provide Treasury ministers with an excellent service both during the transition and in the long term. The team will also work closely with other government departments to establish the new office as part of a civil service economic decision-making hub. Key accountabilities include: Leading the Programme Management Office to support the project, using standard methodology project management. Supporting the Programme Manager to develop our business case, with help from specialists as necessary. Developing and agreeing budgets for projects and forecasting actual costs against them. Building and coordinating the Project Management Office team, including the identification, recruitment, development, deployment and reassignment of resources throughout the project lifecycle. Establishing the project's processes and standards for risk management and assurance. Establishing and implementing protocols to change and improve the scope of the project if necessary. Reporting on project progress and status to appropriate bodies, and ensuring learning from experience is cascaded across the organisation. Working arrangements Location The post will involve some travel between London and other Treasury locations. We would be happy to discuss working from home arrangements – but as a guide, for a full-time applicant, this post can accommodate working from home for up to 2 days per week. Hours of work This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated. The working hours of this post are 42 per week (including meal breaks of 1 hour a day) unless you have a legacy agreement as an existing Civil Servant. Flexible working arrangements HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to 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; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month, providing you work enough hours to meet business need. We also offer a generous maternity/ paternity and adoption leave package. 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 are able to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. Benefits 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the Queen’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant) Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions. Find out more about Civil Service pensions 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 (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT network, faith and belief network) HM Treasury has a strong dedication to equality and diversity and we are a Disability Confident employer. Our aim is to be a department which is open and accessible, recruiting and retaining diverse, talented and high-performing people who support and develop one another. Individuals appointed to the Treasury will be subject to National Security Vetting. To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out applicants will normally need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years .A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis using all information that can be obtained following a successful application. Complaints Procedure Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment. 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