Director, International Strategy, Engagement & Devolution Directorate (ISED)

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

ISED facilitate the delivery of Home Office objectives through successful international and domestic engagement, advice, strategic direction & co-ordination and, the development and provision of capabilities.

The Home Office needs to be ‘International by Default’, because no Home Office objective can be successfully delivered without a significant international effort. Our role in ISED is to help co-operation, especially where delivery requires diplomatic tradecraft, political awareness and engagement, a cross-cutting Home Office or HMG approach, or special capabilities and resources. We provide an international and diplomatic resource for the entire department.

Equally, Home Office objectives require successful engagement with authorities across the United Kingdom, including Devolved Administrations, PCCs and local authorities, to ensure policies are designed and implemented for success. ISED promotes and supports the Home Office’s engagement, in support of the Government’s Union Agenda.

Our vision is to be an outward facing, influential International & Devolution Directorate at the heart of HMG’s international and domestic activities; positioning the Home Office as a thought leader to engage and influence international and domestic partners. We do this via bilateral engagement, ensuring HO presence at multilateral organisations, offering improved capabilities for the department, engaging and enhancing our domestic and foreign networks and coordinating projects.

The Director, ISED is responsible for the delivery of the Home Office International and Devolution Strategy across the Home Office’s various business units. The role is responsible for:

• Drafting, delivering and evaluating the Home Office International Strategy;
• Delivery of Home Office international objectives in priority countries and organisations via direct bilateral engagement and engagement via the FCDO in London and their network of posts;
• Development and coordination of the Home Office International Community (HOIC), including all Home Office international engagement, and coordination through HMG structures;
• Leadership of the Home Office International Cadre, including the development of the Home Office International Learning Curriculum;
• Oversight of design, delivery and evaluation of the Home Office Domestic Engagement Strategy, covering Devolved Administrations, Local Government, UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies;
• Oversight and delivery of ODA and other programme funding to advance UK interests overseas as part of One Home Office and One HMG.
• Member of DG STAR Senior Leadership Team, undertaking the corporate leadership roles expected of a member of the SLT (such as People work and Command governance e.g. mission / vision / identity)

 

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:

Essential Criteria:

• International Experience: a track record of delivering internationally, ideally on matters linked to migration or home affairs and leading teams working internationally on complex issues.
• Devolution Experience: experience of working with devolved governments or experience of devolution issues to deliver Home Office objectives.
• Leadership: A proven ability to lead large teams and structures (ISED has 140 staff; HOIC has large numbers working across the HO) and to deliver through networks (including the FCDO network).
• Communicating and Influencing: An ability to influence at the highest levels in both the UK and Internationally, working across a range of Government systems and cultures.

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of the range of Home Office international business.
• Knowledge of the range of Home Office business in relation to the Devolved Governments.

Alongside your salary of £97,000, Home Office contributes
£26,190 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%

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.

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Job contact :

• Name : Anand Knox
• Email : DGSTARandCSA@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : HORCSCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk