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Job summary
Working closely with the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) and DWP Director General, as well as other Director Generals in the other three departments, the Synergy Programme Director will lead the activity to design, procure and implement cloud-based end to end ERP and wrap around services across the four Cluster Departments (currently working to a delivery date of November 2023). Specifically, they will:
Lead the development of a full business case for transformation, securing safe passage and sign-off through cross Government governance within HM Treasury and Cabinet Office
Lead the overall approach to business change working through the programmes in each department
Lead on the critical path across the programme team and 4 departments ensuring delivery to time, cost and scope
Own, maintain, and track progress against the programmes Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP) ensuring there is a robust change control in place which protects the integrity of the common operating model design, technical specification and BPS service specification
Build engagement and support for Synergy programme within the Departments, cross Government and externally, with world class vendors, implementation and change partners
Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across HM Treasury, Cabinet Office and other central government organisations, especially to support the SRO to shape the operating environment
Work with the Departments to identify, deliver and track benefits including ensuring the business case reduces running costs and achieve best value for money
Job description
Key responsibilities will include:
- Provide effective and strategic Programme Delivery leadership. The total number of people working on the Synergy Programme will exceed over 130 staff. Colleagues are from different Departments, professions and disciplines who need to work as a coherent team and will be based across the country at multiple sites. There will be a blend of employees and contractors working across multi-disciplinary teams including Finance, HR, Commercial, Digital, Analytical, Operational and Project Delivery disciplines
- Build a high performing, inclusive and multi-disciplinary programme team comprising Project Delivery, HR, Finance, Digital, Change and Commercial professionals both embedded and in partnership roles from the four Departments, working closely with the Departmental Programme Directors and their departmental teams
- Resolve and decide compromise solutions to issues and conflicts between departments to ensure smooth end to end process and service design and ensure that the Departments design proposals and assumptions are consistent with the Synergy strategy
- Drive performance and monitor delivery of the Programme plan, specifically that spend, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, benefits and milestones are effectively managed. Working with the Departments, deliver the commercial strategy and the procurement of solutions (technology, systems, services, change and integration support) bringing together appropriate expertise and knowledge to evaluate and select the right providers
- Ensure safe, secure and compliant exit from the existing contract, identifying the impacts of doing so including in terms of service transition and TUPE; in order to safeguard continuity of service provision now and in the future ensuring colleague experience remains at the heart of the transformation at each stage
Person specification
Essential Criteria for the role which will be used to assess your application:
You will need to be able to show, through your application, that you have the professional skills, breadth of experience and personal qualities for this post, as well as the leadership skills to succeed at Director level in the Senior Civil Service.
You will need to give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following essential selection criteria:
- A successful track record of complex programme management leadership, owning sizable resources and financial/corporate governance in a highly scrutinised environment
- A successful track record of enabling major business change at significant scale in a complex organisational environment, driving culture change and improved user experience
- Extensive experience of successfully providing visible leadership, building diverse current and future capability, leading multi-discipline teams, as well as inspiring and motivating others to deliver tangible and sustained outcomes in a challenging and ambiguous environment
- Demonstrable experience of senior stakeholder skills, successfully engaging and influencing a complex range of stakeholders including those at the most senior levels, making the complex simple and compelling, and influencing with your professional skills and experience.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced programme management qualification such as MPLA, MSc in major programme management or APM Major Project Leadership Specialist Certificate
- Ideally with experience transforming Shared Services (including but not limited to Finance, Human Resources, Procurement and Payroll), ERP and Business Process Services.
Benefits
£25,110 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- 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
To apply for this post, you will need to apply online at https://www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe101324 no later than 23:55 on Friday 8 September 2023. You will be asked to submit the following:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
- A Supporting Statement (maximum 1250 words) explaining why you want to work for DWP in this role; how you consider your personal skills, qualities, and experience providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Please note that when you make your application online, you will be asked to complete diversity monitoring information too.
Applications will be assessed only on the evidence presented against the criteria.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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- Name : synergyprogramme@gatenbysanderson.com
- Email : synergyprogramme@gatenbysanderson.com
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