Director, Railway Safety & HM Chief Inspector of Railways -

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Details

Reference number

315056

Salary

£147,000 – £147,000

London or Regional SCS Band 2

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

ORR – Railway Safety

Type of role

Health and Safety

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

About the job

Job summary

We are looking for a Director, Railway Safety & HM Chief Inspector of Railways.

We are a high performing regulator and our values to be inclusive, professional, ambitious and collaborative are important to us. As a director you will be expected to visibly work to those values and promote them across the organisation.

Job description

Please find the job description attached with the full details for the role.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached Candidate Information and Job Description Pack.

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information and Job Description Pack.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people , Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

Things you need to know

Selection process details

For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information and Job Description Pack.

We are working with Audellis, an executive search agency, who have been appointed to assist with this appointment. To apply for this post, you will need to submit the following documentation, CV, Statement of Suitability and a Diversity monitoring form to applications@audeliss.com quoting, REF – ORR Director Railway Safety, by no later than 23:55 on the 9 October 2023.

For an informal conversation about the role or your suitability, please contact Rachel Huggins at rachelh@audeliss.com.

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

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration
is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them
to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through
building your depth of expertise.

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.

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 security 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.