Location
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford
About The Job
Job summary
In this exciting, high-profile Estates and Security leadership role, as part of Integrated Corporate Services, you will provide technical and people leadership over c.50FTE and 25 properties across DESNZ & DSIT and potentially further government departments through a time of estate transformation.
There are multiple exciting strands to this role – leadership of DSIT & DESNZ multi-year security strategy and security operations, completing the high-profile office move to the Whitehall Campus; oversight of a high profile £180m construction project; developing and implementing multi-year Estates and Sustainability strategies for DSIT and DESNZ drawing on ICS services and ensuring the departments are effective Intelligent Clients in their liaison with the building managers/FM providers, the Government Property Agency (GPA).
Working with a Senior Security Advisor (Deputy Director), and an Estates and Sustainability (Deputy Director), this is a brilliant opportunity to lead significant property programmes with high levels of ministerial interest. A fantastic career opportunity to showcase and further develop your estates and security leadership profile, whilst showing your capability to oversee multiple functions.
Job Description
A key member of the ICS Senior Leadership Team, you will support the development and growth of the Operations Directorate aligned to the overall ICS Strategy and departmental priorities and objectives.
Drive year on year improvements in functional performance to achieve high quality user experience and manage operational risk. You will also help drive the integration of estates and security with other ICS services to continue to build the value add and positive experience of colleagues drawing on ICS services.
Provide effective and visible leadership to the ICS Group, ensuring employees express certainty in the future of ICS and recognise the values and strategy of ICS as it develops its own entity.
Develop and implement a multi-year estates strategy for the departments, covering London HQs and the c.25 growing regional offices, working to provide a safe, secure, sustainable and value for money estate.
Manage the relationship as an Intelligent Client with Government Property Agency, and other relevant third-party suppliers, overseeing their FM and security operations across the DSIT/DESNZ estates.
Oversee the construction of a Government funded £180m BREEAM Excellent office building for ECMWF https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about
Provide oversight and leadership across the Government Science Estate, largely owned by DSIT and other and other government department partner organisations.
With the support of a Senior Security Adviser (SSA), oversee DSIT & DESNZ multi-year security strategy and security operations, including physical, personnel, cuber and business continuity as well as the provision of secure internal facilities.
Oversee adherence to national security standards, respond proactively to merging threats an maintain resilience against security incidents.
Oversee assurance for estates and security functions at DESNZ and DSIT Partner Organisations, including alignment of strategies to central government policies.
As a senior property leader, you will also be an active participant across the function, engaging with promoting the Government Property community, showcasing the work of your teams, and supporting the development of the wider Government Property Function.
Person specification
Skills And Experience (Essential)
- Proven record in a Property Leadership role, with experience of developing high value and/or complex estates strategies and overseeing the implementation of multiple projects and programmes at scale.
- An understanding of the development and implementation of security strategies with knowledge of physical and cybersecurity practice and experience of addressing complex challenges
- Ability to build effective, collaborative senior stakeholder relationships across multiple functional areas, for example HR and Finance
- Evidence of being an engaging leader with a clear strategic mind-set and vision, and with effective negotiation skills and ability to interact at the most senior level (e.g. Permanent Secretary, CEO)
- Proven expertise in inclusive leadership enabling the development of high-performing inclusive teams to deliver outstanding outcomes.
- Demonstrable commercial acumen to maximise value for money in estate operations and align expenditure with Departmental financial objectives.
- Full membership of an appropriate Property membership body (e.g. MRICS, MIWFM, MCIOB or others).
We expect all our senior leaders to be:
- Inspiring – about our work and its future.
- Confident – in our engagement with others.
- Empowering – to allow our teams to deliver.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £98,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £28,390 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme , with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website by no later than 23:55 20th January 2025. As part of the application process you are asked to complete the following:
A CV setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
A Statement of Suitability (no more than 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Shortlisted candidates may be invited to undertake a Staff Engagement Exercise (SEE) as part of the recruitment process prior to the final interview. This assessment will not result in a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ decision. Rather it is designed to support the panels decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview. Full details of the assessment process will be provided to shortlisted candidates at the earliest opportunity.
For further information regarding the assessments, please visit
- https://scs-assessments.co.uk/
Final interview, which will include a presentation exercise. Full details will be shared with shortlisted candidates nearer the time. Shortlisted candidates will have the opportunity to have an informal discussion with Alice Hurrell, Chief People Officer for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero.
SC required to start the role with and agreement and willingness to obtain DV clearance given the security element of the role.
For further information on the application process and an overview on what to expect, please visit the Civil Service Careers website.
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
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Working for the Civil Service
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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.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : SCS Recruitment Team
- Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : scsrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
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