Executive Director, SRO Pensions Dashboards Programme

London. We expect our senior leadership to be visible with staff and key stakeholders to build relationships and deliver business goals. This tends to equate to being physically present with those groups around three days a week. Some travel to MaPS Head Office in Bedford will also be required. You must be a full-time UK resident.

Big Job – Bigger Opportunity – Lasting Legacy

Here at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), we believe a financially healthy nation is good for individuals, communities, businesses and the economy. As the largest single funder of free debt advice in England we helped well over a million people with debt advice, money guidance and pension guidance over the last year.

We’re looking for people who have the right skills, knowledge and behaviours for the job, but equally as important is a strong commitment to our objectives, values and vision. We passionately care about transforming lives and want this to drive everything we do as an organisation.

Now four years into our life as an organisation, we are looking for an accomplished leader to join us as an Executive Director and SRO of the nationally important Pensions Dashboards Programme. Pensions dashboards will enable individuals to access their pensions information online, securely and all in one place.

Dashboards will provide clear and simple information about an individual’s multiple pension savings, including their State Pension. We are responsible for designing and implementing the architecture and standards that will see the programme succeed.

As the Senior Responsible Owner for this programme, you will be accountable to parliament for the Pensions Dashboards Programme meeting its objectives, delivering the required outcomes, and realising the required benefits. As a key member of the executive leadership team and board, your role will extend into the wider strategic leadership of MaPS, shaping our future direction and ensuring that we have a culture that enables people to flourish in delivering the impact we are passionate about realising.

For this role, you will need to have an established track record of delivering large scale and complex programmes to deliver tangible benefits to service users. You will demonstrate highly effective stakeholder engagement and influence skills, with the ability to build cross-sector collaboration to deliver business and programme goals.

You will be an accomplished team leader, able to provide direction, development and high performance for the people you have led. We need an inspirational leader who can demonstrate experience of taking people with them on a journey of transformational change and be passionate about the impact we have on the lives of people across the UK. Culture is as important as capability, and you will demonstrate values set in line with those we have developed at MaPS.

Essential

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills and an ability to use these skills to overcome resistance and challenge in order to achieve success.
• A proven capability to understand and navigate complex cross-organisational systems and structures, and devise strategies which cut through this complexity, demonstrating strong commercial acumen and negotiating skills.
• Proven people leadership skills, with experience of building and leading high performing teams, and with a strong knowledge of and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• A demonstrable track record of successfully delivering complex transformation programmes.
• MPLA, ChPP or equivalent professional programme delivery qualification (or the willingness to attain the qualification); and
• Able to evidence operating effectively as a business leader giving due consideration to the effective management of risk, employee relations, development of strategic business cases, contract management, forecasting, financial spend and controls. 

Desirable 

Diversity of background, perspective and thinking is important to create an engaging and inclusive organisation that delivers effectively for its full range of stakeholders. As a board member and executive leader of MaPS that diversity is particularly valuable, given the wide range of the end-users of the pensions dashboard.

The successful candidate may therefore come from one of a number of different sectors and bring with them a variety of areas of expertise. The ability to demonstrate a strong track record in one or both of the areas below would be an asset in the role.

• Working knowledge of or experience of working in or with the pensions industry
• Proven experience and delivery of programme leadership within a central government or Arms-length body environment

What Money and Pensions Service can offer you?

• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan to help you buy season tickets for buses and trains.
• Cycle to work Scheme.
• Subsidised eye test & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme.
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme.
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers

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Job contact :

• Name : Kirsten Hasseriis
• Email : kirsten.hasseriis@gatenbysanderson.com

Recruitment team

• Email : kirsten.hasseriis@gatenbysanderson.com