Project Manager - House, United States - HM Land Registry

Description

Job Summary

The Home Office is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.

We would particularly welcome applications from people who are currently under-represented within the Home Office at this grade.

The Illegal Migration Act (IMA) puts greater demands on the Home Office to increase its cross-system coordination across the end-to-end Illegal Migrant Pathway.

The Illegal Migration Operations Command (IMOC) will be focused in the coming months on the operationalisation of the new act.

At the heart of this will be a new Illegal Migration Command HQ (IMOC HQ).

IMOC HQ will deliver cross-system campaigns and operations to reduce illegal migration to the UK and tackle organised immigration crime overseas.

As this is a newly established unit the post holder will have an opportunity to support and shape the development of the Campaign Management Office which sits within Downstream Campaigns Operations.

The Downstream Campaigns Operations team are responsible for driving IMOC HQ operations and projects where central intervention and oversight is required in the form of surge teams, tiger teams and general support on operations where operational teams must maintain BAU operations.

The expectation is for the successful candidate to provide seamless project delivery within the Campaign Management Office.

The candidate will also act as a conduit between other business areas such as Immigration Enforcement, Border Force etc to ensure clear lines of communications, adherence to key priorities and deadlines and support the delivery of shared aims and objectives.

This is an exciting opportunity to support an integral unit in a high profile and fast paced directorate.

We are looking for self-starting professionals who are keen to make a positive impact and support the continuous development of a high-performing team.

Job Description

The successful applicant would be expected to:

Support the G7 Project Lead to deliver against unit objectives

Provide seamless delivery of projects and programmes

The use of project tools to support delivery.

Build strong networks across Home Office, working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to develop and align processes, support sharing of best practice and drive forward key priorities.

Support IMOC HQ to embed within the business and to deliver their overarching aims.

Support and enable wider directorate objectives including supporting corporate initiatives.

Have good leadership skills, be a strong team player with the ability to think strategically and work at pace

Ability to work in an ambiguous working environment

Some travel will be required.

Travel and subsistence costs will be reimbursed in line with standard Home Office policy.

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions.

Due to the nature of the role, this is for full time applicants only.

Person specification

Responsibilities

The Project Managers will be responsible for project delivery of departmental and business area objectives.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

Delivery – Delivery of project agreed outcomes within time, taking into consideration cost and quality constraints, differentiating between interim delivery (possible minimum viable product/service – MVP/MVS) and longer-term strategic delivery.

Project Management – Day to day management and leadership of projects, setting project controls and managing effective transitions between project phases.

Benefits Realisation – Supporting delivery of the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes.

Ensuring that appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy are in place and a means to monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case.

Stakeholder Management – Building consensus across a large and diverse range of stakeholders, successfully managing engagement and communications to ensure buy-in and ownership, bringing in senior level support when required.

Risks & Issues – Ensuring that strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed, and appropriate mitigating actions developed, implemented, and monitored throughout the life cycle of the project.

Engaging senior stakeholders and specialists where appropriate.

Governance – Supporting effective governance and decision making. Providing accurate reports and engaging in governance forum reviews on delivery.

Assurance – Engage with assurance processes such as gateway reviews and progress action on identified recommendations.

Change Management – Working in partnership with specialists to ensure that effective Change Management processes are in place.

Guidance & Support – Providing support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Show commitment to personal development. Promoting effective individual and team performance.

Project Performance & Controls – Ensuring that project visions are cascaded effectively and translated into delivery objectives. Develop and maintain Project Plans, identifying and setting appropriate Project Controls, managing performance and reporting progress to business leads.

Planning – Providing clarity on project timelines to define what, when and how activities will be organised to ensure the outcomes of a project can be achieved, with the resources available.

These duties are not exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Essential Criteria

The candidate must have, or show potential for:

Experience of working in a Project or Programme team or environment and tracking and monitoring delivery against established complex project plans with tight deadlines.

Effectively managing project risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions.

Demonstrating strong communication, influencing and interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify and adapt your style to the audience using different mediums.

Good problem solving and organisational skills, with the ability to develop and implement effective project delivery processes to ensure the delivery of successful project outcomes.

A track record of successfully collaborating with a range of internal and external partners. Identifying, building and maintaining these strong relationships across departments.

Ability to identify and flag issues or potential barriers and mitigations to the effective running of the project management function.

Self-starter, with a track record in independent working - providing high quality work as tasked without supervision.

Resilient under pressure, ability to work at pace and adapt to changing work prioritisation at short notice.

Confident handling challenge and responding to the needs of all.

Desirable criteria

A relevant Project Management qualification for example: Agile; MSP; Prince II; APM.

Strong awareness of current and emerging political and illegal migration policy issues

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Communicating and Influencing
Delivering at Pace
Leadership

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Changing and Improving

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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

a CV detailing job history
a statement of suitability (personal statement) (maximum 750 words)
provide evidence of the behaviour Changing & Improving (250 words maximum)

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

The statement of suitability should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the essential criteria as detailed in the job description.

For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links – Statement

For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links –Behaviours

The sift will be held on the behaviour Changing & Improving and the statement of suitability (personal statement). The CV will not be scored.

However, if a large number of applications are received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Statement of Suitability.

Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift which will include the lead behaviour.

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview which will be behaviour-based questions.

Sift and interview dates

Sift is expected to take place from 21st November 2023.

Interviews are expected to take place from week commencing 11th December 2023.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert, however on occasions these dates may change.

Interviews will be carried out via video.

Candidates will be required to have access to:
A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
Good internet connection
Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams

Further information

For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance.

You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role or similar role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

When completing your application you will have the opportunity to select your preferred location(s). Please ensure you select all locations you are interested in.

Candidates who are successful at Interview will be placed in order of merit per location and provisional job offers will be made in strict merit order per location preference.

Provisional offers are made, as they are on condition that you successfully pass all pre-employment checks.

Note for candidates

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.

All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying of examples/answers from internet sources. If any is detected the application will be withdrawn from the process. Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates.

Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.

If you are currently an agency member of staff working within the Home Office, a contractor or contingent worker you can only apply for roles that are advertised externally, i.e.

outside the civil service.

If you are eligible to apply for a role, you are required to select yourself as an external applicant and not internal when submitting your application on Civil Service jobs.

This will prevent any delays in pre-employment checks should you become successful in being made an offer of employment after the Interview stage.

Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

As stated in the Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both Governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland.

Visa sponsorship

We are unable to sponsor any individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas as we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License.

Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond.

To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.

We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

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 applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.

Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed.

It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.

Transfer Terms:
Voluntary.

If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.

Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.

Any move to the Home Office 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

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs

Complete the "Assistance Required" 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 you're 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.

Feedback

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

Security

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

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Home Office Resourcing Centre

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Recruitment team


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Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

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