Head of 3rd Party Resource and Governance Team

DWP Digital; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking an experienced leader for their 3rd Party Resources and Governance Team. This role involves leading recruitment processes and governance strategies, ensuring efficient resource allocation, and collaborating across departments. The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing the department's capability to meet strategic goals.

Benefits

Employer pension contributions worth 28.97%

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Flexible working including flexible hours

Professional development and career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience of leading the end-to-end recruitment process.
• Experience designing and implementing governance processes.
• Demonstrable evidence of contract management performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team delivering expert recruitment and governance.
• Oversee recruitment and management of non-permanent resources.
• Ensure compliance with IR35 and departmental governance standards.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Governance

Continuous Improvement

Job description

Pay up to £77,740, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Delivering with People


We're looking for an experienced leader to join our 3rd Party Resources and Governance Team at DWP Digital.

In this pivotal role, you'll:

• Lead a high-performing team delivering expert recruitment and governance services.
• Oversee the recruitment and management of non-permanent resources.
• Ensure compliance with IR35 and departmental governance standards.
• Lead on the 3rd party contract and supplier management, monitoring performance and compliance.
• Collaborate with Finance, Commercial, HR, and Tax teams to manage supplier performance and contracts.
• Drive continuous improvement in our operating model and governance processes.
• Provide insight and assurance to senior stakeholders and audit bodies.
• Shape commercial strategies that align with our digital transformation goals, ensuring value for money and supporting sustainable outcomes.

You'll play a key role in ensuring that the department has the right external talent and governance frameworks to deliver against our strategic priorities.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The 3rd Party Resources and Governance Team at DWP Digital ensure that the organisation is sufficiently resourced to deliver against our strategic priorities.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? How will this be assessed?

The application process for this role includes a personal statement. This is your opportunity to showcase your skills and experience, as clearly and fully as you can, against the following criteria:

• Lead criterion: Leadership - Significant experience of leading the end-to-end recruitment process in a large and complex organisation, for roles at all levels which are ideally specialist and/or hard to fill, with the ability to work in a highly pressurised environment.
• Experience of designing and implementing governance and/or approvals processes.
• Demonstrable evidence of contract management performance and identifying opportunities to drive improvements.
• Proven ability and experience of designing and implementing recruitment/resourcing strategies
• Highly effective stakeholder management skills gained through a complex and/or large organisation, and able to work with a wide range of people inside and outside own area.
• Have significant experience delivering projects, including from early stage, with the ability to ensure multiple workstreams deliver to time and to the highest standard.

You'll need to evidence sufficiently against the lead criteria to progress to a full application review. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £77,740.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies

• Time off volunteering and charitable giving

• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'

• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more

• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference

• Sports and social activities

• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLYfor more information and to start your application.

In Short

• Industry IT & Telecommunications, Public Sector
• Founded 2016
• Location Manchester, London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Blackpool, Newcastle
• Company size 5000+

About The Company

DWP Digital is a growing community of nearly 5,000 digital experts leading the transformation of the UK's largest government department - the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Digital With Purpose

Do you want to play a pivotal role in delivering some of the country’s most important tech projects? We’re recruiting innovative, curious, and enthusiastic digital specialists who want to be part of our huge transformation.

DWP Digital improves user experiences for the Department for Work and Pensions’ customers and colleagues. The services we build are used by millions of people to access the support that they need at different times of their lives.

Own Your Career

The large-scale digital transformation we’re undergoing requires a wide range of skills. That’s why we have over 5,000 experts working on a variety of important projects, and why we’re recruiting even more.

We need people with experience in engineering, data, product design, architecture and much more. Opportunities to work with us range from early talent and apprenticeships that will enable you to grow with DWP Digital, all the way up to senior roles that will allow you to shape the future direction of the organisation. Our dedication to development means you will have ample opportunity to learn and thrive at the cutting-edge of the industry.

An award-winning team

In 2022, our award highlights include our API Integration team being awarded Kong’s Top Public Sector Innovation Award and the Red Hat Innovation Award. We also won the Organisational Exit from the Pandemic category at the UK IT Industry Awards and were highly commended for Digital Transformation Project of the Year. At the Civil Service Awards, we won Best Use of Data and Technology and won the cross-government award One Civil Service for collaborating on issuing cost of living payments.

Where you’ll work

We have seven digital hubs located across the country – Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. They are designed to enable agile ways of working, allowing teams to collaborate to deliver world-class government digital services.

However, we also recognise that a healthy work-life balance is important. That’s why we’ve embraced a hybrid working approach that allows DWP Digital employees to spend up to 60% of their week working from home.