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Job summary
Do you have an established background in project delivery and are now looking to further develop your career?
Are you highly motivated and committed to creating a bright future for our people and our customers?
Would you like to join a growing community of Project Delivery professionals who tackle some of the UK Governments most pressing challenges every day?
We are looking for 9 experienced Project Managers to enable DWP to deliver its Change portfolio of over 100 Change projects and programmes. These include some of the largest and most complex programmes which form part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio.
As a Project Manager in the DWP Change and Resilience Group, you will play a critical role in the success of delivering our Change Portfolio. You will have strong project management and leadership skills to lead multi-disciplinary teams to successfully achieve our Change ambitions.
If you are highly motivated, committed to project delivery and would like to support the Government to deliver its next set of priorities, this role is for you. We will also be looking to form a strong reserve list as we expect to have further roles in the near future.
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to deliver major projects, lead a team and support colleagues throughout the project journey to fulfil deadlines. The right candidate will be an inclusive leader with project delivery experience and a pragmatic approach that balances the need for governance and rigour, while engaging with but not over-burdening stakeholders.
Project Managers are vital and the opportunities we have available are fast paced, challenging and varied. They require excellent stakeholder management skills, working with a wide range of colleagues across DWP, wider Government and may also include external organisations. In return, you will join a flourishing, supportive community delivering some of the largest transformation programmes in the UK.
Our success depends on our people. We are looking for individuals to join our team who are as motivated by our unique purpose as we are!
What are the role responsibilities?
Exact responsibilities may vary from role to role but include:
- Leading and coordinating the successful delivery of projects, programmes and portfolios whilst overcoming associated operational and people challenges.
- Seeking out, developing and sharing first class project delivery practices, building strong internal and external professional networks and proactively supporting colleagues in the Project Delivery community.
- Creating inclusive high performing teams which make people feel secure and supported to achieve their potential whilst fostering collaboration across organisational boundaries.
- Collaborating with colleagues from different professions, including Digital, Policy and Operational Delivery to achieve customer focused solutions – putting user needs and customer experience at the forefront of designing transformation.
- Developing, monitoring and managing project risks, issues and interdependencies including mitigating strategies and trade-offs, escalating these as appropriate.
- Engaging the right stakeholders at the right time to gain commitment, ensuring the Departments vision is communicated effectively to stakeholders enabling effective transformation across DWP.
- Reviewing and developing processes that support the delivery of a project and presenting these to senior stakeholders in governance forums.
- Service design and delivery – delivering the agreed outcomes within time, cost, quality constraints and agreed tolerance levels.
Our Mission
The Department for Work and Pensions is one of the biggest government departments, delivering vital services to some of the most vulnerable people in society. As part of the UKs biggest public service department, we make sure that millions of people receive their State Pension and working age, disability and ill health benefits each year.
Change and Resilience Group (CRG) lead on the Departments portfolio of Change programmes and projects. We work in multi-disciplinary teams to continually improve how we do things and deliver our services with minimal disruption to DWP customers. More information can be found in the Candidate Information Pack attached and you can also find out more about Working for DWP here.
Find out more about DWP Change and Resilience Group here:
The size and scale of DWP means that there are plenty of opportunities to develop, learn and progress throughout your career. We are committed to developing our people now and in the future. Our aim is for our colleagues to be appropriately skilled and qualified from the moment of entry up to becoming an experienced Project Delivery practitioner within their role. The Government Project Delivery Profession accreditation scheme is at the heart of what we are delivering within DWP. This scheme, designed for all Project Delivery professionals working in projects, programmes and portfolios, provides an industry aligned standard by which project delivery professionals working across government can be recognised for their knowledge, skills and experience
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make Change and Resilience Group as diverse as possible, and we particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Person specification
The Essential Criteria for this role are:
Leadership – You are able to demonstrate how you have successfully delivered change or transformation for people or organisations in a leadership capacity. You have evidence of collaboratively establishing high performing teams with a strong vision that engages others whilst promoting diversity and inclusion.
Communication Skills – You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them. You can build strong relationships and manage stakeholder expectations, facilitating difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders to deliver business objectives and outcomes.
Project Delivery – You can demonstrate responsibility for a diverse range of activities to manage the delivery of a project’s objectives on a day-to-day basis, through the project lifecycle. You will have experience in enabling the smooth running of a project by applying sound project management disciplines/processes.
Business Change and Implementation – You can demonstrate how you translate planned changes or initiatives into action ensuring that activities are planned and completed to successfully implement the change and realise the benefits.
Planning – You have practical experience of facilitating a teams planning cycle. You can manage complex internal and external dependencies and evidence the fundamental components of a project in terms of its scope, deliverables, time scales, resource requirements and budget.
Risk Management – You ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed and appropriate mitigating actions developed, implemented and monitored throughout the life of the project.
Additional Information:
- Due to the nature of these posts, it requires the postholders to work out of one of the DWP Change hubs. These are located in: Birmingham Arena Central, Blackpool Peel Park, Glasgow Atlantic Quay, Leeds Quarry House, London Caxton House, Manchester St Peters Square, Newcastle Benton Park, Sheffield Kings Court, Pontypridd Treforest Ty Taf.
- Travel to other Hubs will be required.
- For vacancies in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.
- You will be asked to complete a location preference as part of your application. Successful candidates will be posted in merit order based on your location preferences (within reasonable daily travelling distance) and the geographical requirements of the business. Dependent on your position on the merit list, if none of your location preferences remain at the point we make a job offer DWP may offer you a role at an alternative advertised location. If we are unable to offer you a role in any of your preferred locations, and you are unable to accept a role at an alternative advertised location, we will add you to the reserve list if one is being held.
- Relocation costs for anyone voluntarily moving will not be reimbursed.
- This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Project Delivery Frameworks and Methodologies (5-minute presentation at interview)
Benefits
- 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%
Things you need to know
Selection process details
After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Work Strengths Test.
Civil Service Jobs will check if you have an applicable banked test score.
- If you do, you wont be invited to the test.
- If you dont, you will be invited to the test, and must take it.
If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online test and written application as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is Monday 4 December at 23:55. If you fail to complete the online test and written application before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the Civil Service Jobs website.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV showing your job history, qualifications and experiences – this will not be used in the sifting process.
You will then be asked to submit a personal statement of 1250 words. The written sift will be conducted using evidence from your personal statement which will be assessed against the essential criteria.
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour, Leadership. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
When completing your personal statement, the layout is entirely your preference; you may choose narrative, bullets, etc. You may choose to address each criterion separately, however, one narrative example may cover and evidence several essential criteria. Please ensure you provide as much evidence as you can to allow us to assess your skills, knowledge and experience.
Share with us what makes you suited to this role. We would like to find out what you can do, the skills you hold and the life experience or passion you have that could be aligned to the essential criteria.
Feedback will not be provided at the sift stage.
Please note that when you make your application online you will be asked to complete Diversity Monitoring information.
Information Session
There will be an information session available for prospective candidates on Tuesday 21 November at 10:00 – 11:00.
Please contact changegroup.businessmanagementteam@dwp.gov.uk and we will send you the details via email. If you have accessibility requirements, please let us know.
The Interview
Interviews will take place remotely by an MS Teams video call. The interview will take approximately 50 minutes and further details and instructions will be provided closer to the scheduled interview. All applicants who progress to interview will be assessed on behaviours, strengths and a presentation.
Presentation – Candidates will be asked to prepare and deliver a 5-minute presentation to the panel which will be assessed against the technical skill, Project Delivery Frameworks and Methodologies. This will be followed by a question-and-answer segment. Details of the presentation will be given to candidates on invitation to interview – no visual aids will be permitted.
For more advice around how to answer behaviour and strength questions and an indicative timeline for the sift and interview dates, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack. Please note that any dates given are subject to change.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:Contact Government Recruitment Service via DWPRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Further Information
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to DWP from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP’s terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these priciples. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Your application will be withdrawn if you include personal details such as: name, contact details and address. This also applies to your document title. Please confirm that personal details are redacted from your CV. Answer YES/NO.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Change and Resilience Group Resourcing Team
- Email : change.resourcingteam@dwp.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dwprecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact (recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk) in the first instance.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/civilservicerecruitmentcomplaints/
