Senior Policy Advisor, Dormant Assets
- 23/05/2024
- £49,839.00 - £61,627.00 /yearly
- Fixed Term Contract
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Job Overview
Job Type
Fixed Term Contract
Salary
£49,839 - £61,627 yearly
Date Posted:
23/05/2024
Expiration date:
10/06/2024
Additional Detail
Job ID
8033
Job Description
Manchester, London
Job summary
The Dormant Assets Scheme is a voluntary Scheme that is led by the financial services industry and backed by the government. To date, the Scheme has unlocked hundreds of millions of pounds for good causes across the UK.
You will be working closely with Ministers, senior stakeholders across government (notably with HM Treasury and Reclaim Fund Ltd, their arms-length body), and with our financial services partners to deliver this programme of work at pace. It offers the opportunity to work on a high profile programme of work and will suit someone able to work flexibly.
Job description
You will have overarching responsibility for ensuring dormant assets funding across four financial services sectors can be unlocked for good causes. This role is perfect for someone who is an exemplary communicator: your ability to build strong and trusted relationships with senior stakeholders will be critical to the Schemes success.
Our team works flexibly and often has to absorb new policy priorities, which means you will need to cover wider policy issues as they emerge. Current key deliverables include:
- Maintain strong working relationships with senior stakeholders across the ecosystem, notably including financial services firms, Reclaim Fund Ltd, and HM Treasury colleagues
- Develop and implement a participation and engagement strategy
- Support work to unblock current barriers to participation
- Lead work to consider other types of dormant assets for future inclusion in the Scheme
- Work alongside another Grade 7 on dormant assets distribution policy, ensuring industry views are appropriately fed into decision-making processes and covering their role when needed
Person specification
The ideal candidate would have the following key skills and experience:
Essential requirements:
- Communicating and influencing: Build strong relationships of trust with an array of senior stakeholders both internally and externally. Communicate purpose and direction with clarity, integrity and enthusiasm. Take complex information and explain it a way that is easy to understand.
- Leadership: Shape this agenda and drive progress across multiple boundaries. Proven track record in providing strong leadership and bringing others along with you.
- Working at pace and flexibly: Work with a high degree of autonomy and flexibility, demonstrating excellent resilience and intellectual curiosity to respond to shifting requirements. Collaborate as part of a team in a changing environment, taking responsibility for delivering timely and quality results.
- Seeing the big picture: Understand the strategic drivers for your work and be proactive in developing your and the teams knowledge, aligning with other priorities where possible.
Desirable skills:
- Experience working with or in financial services would be desirable, but not essential.
We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. This will be hosted by Taryn Cornell (Interim Head of Dormant Assets), and will take place on 16:0017:00 Tuesday 4 June 2024.
The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Please register your interest by filling out this form and you will be sent an invitation.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
Alongside your salary of £49,839, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £13,456 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. Were committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:
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Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home
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26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years service
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A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice
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3 days of paid volunteering leave
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Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave
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Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year
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Occupational sick pay
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Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice
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Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks
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Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work
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Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!
Terms and conditions at SCS grades will vary. Those applying for SCS roles should refer to the candidate information pack for more information on terms and conditions.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
To apply for this post, please send us the following documents no later than 09:00 on Monday 10th June 2024 via the CS Jobs portal:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 3 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the "Job History" section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form.
- A Statement of Suitability (max 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed.
For the shortlist, we will assess your experience and select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial sift will be conducted on the statement of suitability. Those who are successful in the initial sift will then be scored on their CV as well.
For support in writing your application and interviewing, please refer to the Application and Interview Guidance document attached to the job advert.
Interview
The interview process will assess behaviours and strengths.
The behaviours to be tested at interview are:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Seeing the Big Picture
Prior to the interview you will be sent the behaviour questions in advance. Please note that this is not a DCMS policy, it is exclusively for this campaign.
You will not be made aware of the strengths being assessed prior to your interview.
As part of your interview, you may be asked to deliver a short oral presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.
Your interview will take place remotely via GoogleMeets.
For indicative sift and interview dates please refer to the attached Candidate Information Pack.
Further Information
If the vacancy is offered as FTA/Loan, existing Civil Servants must join on a Loan basis only., Prior agreement to be released on loan must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
This role is full time only. Applicants who wish to work an alternative pattern are welcome to apply however your preferred working pattern may not be available and you should discuss this with the vacancy holder before applying.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to Department for Culture, Media and Sport 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
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
DCMS has a London and a National pay scale. For more information on this, including the circumstances in which each pay scale will apply, please see the Information for Applicants document.
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 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 [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
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.
Reasonable Adjustment
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process.
In order to request an adjustment, please:
Complete the Assistance required section on 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 a verbal test rather than a written one.
Alternatively, contact the Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Accessibility
If you are experiencing accessibility difficulties with any of the attachments, please contact us. Contact details can be found in the 'contact point for applicants' section of the job advert.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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 counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (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
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).
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).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Taryn Cornell
- Email : [email protected]
Recruitment team
- Email : [email protected]
Further information
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
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 [email protected] 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/
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 [email protected] 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/
Attachments
| 2024 Dormant Assets Expansion Grade 7 role Opens in new window (pdf, 6065kB) |
| DCMS Application and Interview Guidance for Candidates Opens in new window (pdf, 135kB) |
