Borders and Enforcement - Foreign National Offenders Returns Command - Risk, Assurance & Programme Management Office Support Glasgow, Scotland
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Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain.
Learn more on the Immigration Enforcement careers page.
Job description
The role is within Foreign National Offenders Returns Command (FNORC) Assurance, Risk Compliance and Programme Management Office (PMO) and can be conducted from any advertised location which has a FNORC team based. Some travel will be required to other Government Offices in the UK.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to develop and embed a wide range of people and engagement skills within a high performing team, delivering what is required to continue to make the team a great place to work and to support staff and senior managers in delivery. Immigration Enforcement’s, FNO Returns Command (formerly Criminal Casework) has overall responsibility for the removal of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs). The command works closely with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver Immigration Enforcement vision - to protect the public by reducing the size of the illegal population and the harm it causes - by:
- Removing FNO’s who commit criminal offences, where legislation permits
- Managing and monitoring the presence of FNOs in the community pending deportation when they cannot be removed immediately.
FNO Returns Command’s objective is to protect the public by deporting FNOs who commit criminal offences, where legislation permits, and to monitor and manage FNOs released into the community pending deportation. We do this by rigorously pursuing deportation against FNO’s who have committed criminal offences, managing each case through the legal process (for example appeals and Judicial Reviews), negotiating barriers (for example travel documents) and ensuring that the use of immigration detention is appropriate. This is an exciting, dynamic and fast paced environment with new challenges being faced daily.
The successful candidate will be expected to show significant flexibility and the ability to balance often competing workloads and priorities.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Completing 2nd Line Assurance checks
- Providing support to the Assurance Lead, engaging with Team Leaders and managers while a new assurance process is embedded
- Collating data provided by the Assurance Strategy
- Supporting the adoption of the FNO RC Quality Assurance Framework (QAF)
- Supporting commands in completing Quality Assurance Assessments for their staff, promoting awareness and providing support
- Managing and updating the FNO RC QAF Dashboard, to ensure accurate completion
- Updating and maintaining the QAF Tool & Dashboard with amendments to existing QAFs and new QAFs
- Supporting the Risk Manager in maintaining the FNO RC Risk Registers
- Supporting the Business Continuity (BC) Lead in maintaining BC records and assist with BC tests
- Co-ordinating the completion of the Simplified Management
- Managing the PMO inbox and calendar, dealing with queries where possible and escalating where required
- Managing the PMO folders, document library, document retention
- Providing secretariat support to the PMO and Senior Management Team (SMT) for governance boards and work groups including preparing agendas, drafting and circulating minutes and papers to set deadlines
- Supporting the wider FNO RC SMT when required, to deal with urgent or critical work as and when it arises
- Assisting with the PMO and BC command when required. This will include contributing to urgent commissions, projects, workshops and other priority workstreams across FNO RC.
- Other ad-hoc tasks as required.
Essential Criteria
Successful candidates will need to demonstrate:
- Strong IT skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Flexible and able to proactively work on your own initiative to short deadlines
- Be able to communicate with impact, in person and in writing
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective relationships with
- Colleagues at every level
- Be able to work as part of a team and also independently with the ability to manage own time and priorities by managing workloads and activities to meet demanding milestones and deadlines
- Good organisational and planning skills, being able to work at pace
- Ability to identify and establish excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
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Be able to communicate with purpose, direction and clarity
An ability to justify decisions in the face of challenge.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of MS Project and SharePoint
- Ability to adapt to new or changing workstreams
- Experience of advanced Excel functionality
- Experience of providing secretariat support.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
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%
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Selection process details
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 Statement of Suitability (personal statement) (maximum 750 words)
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please note your personal statement 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.
The sift will be conducted on the Statement of Suitability (personal statement) only.
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview which will be a blended approach of strength-based questions and behaviour-based questions on all listed behaviours.
Sift and Interview dates
The sift is expected to take place week commencing 27th February 2023.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 13th March 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
PLEASE NOTE: Due to time constraints we may not be able to offer alternative interview date(s). It is therefore expected that candidates who are successful at sift stage will make themselves available during the above time frame given.
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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.
Hybrid working
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.
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.
If you are considering applying for part time hours, please contact [email protected] to discuss your request as not all working patterns may be accommodated.
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 https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
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 [email protected] 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.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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