Senior Operational Leader
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Job summary
DWP’s Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Senior Operational Leader for a permanent, full-time role based in Livingston. You will model senior management leadership, delivering flexible, personalised customer service, quality and performance across a geographically diverse team.
You will drive strategic priorities and ensure delivery against key objectives. You will oversee change management, build strong relationships with other government departments and external bodies, and travel
Qualifications
- Experience leading senior teams and managing large, geographically diverse workforces.
- Ability to drive performance against clear objectives and KPIs.
- Proven track record of embedding new policies and process changes.
Responsibilities
- Lead a geographically diverse team of SEOs, setting strategic priorities.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and mitigate risks to performance.
- Oversee policy implementation and maintain compliance with legislative frameworks.
- Build collaborative relationships with other government departments and external bodies.
- Provide visible leadership through site visits and clear communications to secure buy-in.
- Motivate teams to operate flexibly and personalise services for customers.
- Foster innovation and cross-team collaboration for service improvements.
- Contribute to people planning and resource deployment across sites.
- Design and manage new business roles and processes to improve customer experience.
- Ensure prompt handling of matters in line with DWP policies and risk management.
Skills
Job description
DWP helps people lift themselves out of poverty and to stay out of poverty, through work, saving and support. This is a hugely important public service, and our challenge is bigger than ever. As part of the Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt Directorate (CFCD) you will be at the heart of DWP’s front line operations, helping to change peoples lives and supporting CFCD's purpose of fighting fraud in the welfare system.
As Senior Operational Leader, you will role model excellent senior management leadership, taking responsibility for the flexible, effective, personalised delivery of customer service, quality, and performance. You will provide transformational leadership to a geographically diverse team - leading through others, driving people engagement, and inspiring colleagues to deliverobjectives.
CFCD is a great place to work where the leadership team are passionate about attracting the best talent whilst nurturing and valuing new and existing colleagues to be the best they can be. We are looking for people who can demonstrate our values and commitment to leadership which are based around collaboration, resilience and inclusivity. We look for emotionally aware leaders who enable teams to be innovative, adaptable and flexible. We want you to be comfortable challenging the norm and finding daring and dynamic solutions that support our values and enable colleagues to shine in whatever role they do.
As a Senior Operational Leader, you will:
- Report directly to the Grade 6, being fully accountable for the management of a large, geographically diverse, team of Senior Executive Officers (SEOs) setting strategic business priorities for your areas of responsibility and driving performance against key objectives.
- Lead performance within your business area, undertaking regular face-to-face performance reviews with your direct reports, identifying risks to performance achievement, and driving forward continuous improvement.
- Be at the forefront of overseeing business change; leading others through the implementation, and embedding, of new policies and procedures.
- Work alongside multiple senior representatives from other government departments / external bodies, building strong, collaborative relationships which enhance our reputation and achieve excellent outcomes.
- Provide visible, effective leadership through regular site visits, taking a personal lead in engaging with and communicating key messages with clarity and passion to obtain buy in.
- Motivate teams to operate flexibly, seeking feedback, listening and acting on this, setting performance standards and personalising services for our customers.
- Encourage creative thinking and collaborative working between teams and directorates to drive innovation and service improvements.
- Contribute to people planning activities, ensuring appropriate and effective deployment of people and resources within and between sites.
- Develop a holistic grasp of all customer types enabling you to lead, design and manage new business roles and processes that continuously improve the quality of customer experience.
- Ensure all matters are dealt with promptly and sensitively, in line with DWP policies and procedures, and legislative frameworks, managing risk exposure by overseeing compliance.
Frequent travel between sites and overnight stays will be required depending on business needs.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
DWP helps people lift themselves out of poverty and to stay out of poverty, through work, saving and support. This is a hugely important public service, and our challenge is bigger than ever. As part of the Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt Directorate (CFCD) you will be at the heart of DWP’s front line operations, helping to change peoples lives and supporting CFCD's purpose of fighting fraud in the welfare system.
As Senior Operational Leader, you will role model excellent senior management leadership, taking responsibility for the flexible, effective, personalised delivery of customer service, quality, and performance. You will provide transformational leadership to a geographically diverse team - leading through others, driving people engagement, and inspiring colleagues to deliverobjectives.
CFCD is a great place to work where the leadership team are passionate about attracting the best talent whilst nurturing and valuing new and existing colleagues to be the best they can be. We are looking for people who can demonstrate our values and commitment to leadership which are based around collaboration, resilience and inclusivity. We look for emotionally aware leaders who enable teams to be innovative, adaptable and flexible. We want you to be comfortable challenging the norm and finding daring and dynamic solutions that support our values and enable colleagues to shine in whatever role they do.
As a Senior Operational Leader, you will:
- Report directly to the Grade 6, being fully accountable for the management of a large, geographically diverse, team of Senior Executive Officers (SEOs) setting strategic business priorities for your areas of responsibility and driving performance against key objectives.
- Lead performance within your business area, undertaking regular face-to-face performance reviews with your direct reports, identifying risks to performance achievement, and driving forward continuous improvement.
- Be at the forefront of overseeing business change; leading others through the implementation, and embedding, of new policies and procedures.
- Work alongside multiple senior representatives from other government departments / external bodies, building strong, collaborative relationships which enhance our reputation and achieve excellent outcomes.
- Provide visible, effective leadership through regular site visits, taking a personal lead in engaging with and communicating key messages with clarity and passion to obtain buy in.
- Motivate teams to operate flexibly, seeking feedback, listening and acting on this, setting performance standards and personalising services for our customers.
- Encourage creative thinking and collaborative working between teams and directorates to drive innovation and service improvements.
- Contribute to people planning activities, ensuring appropriate and effective deployment of people and resources within and between sites.
- Develop a holistic grasp of all customer types enabling you to lead, design and manage new business roles and processes that continuously improve the quality of customer experience.
- Ensure all matters are dealt with promptly and sensitively, in line with DWP policies and procedures, and legislative frameworks, managing risk exposure by overseeing compliance.
Frequent travel between sites and overnight stays will be required depending on business needs.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.
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