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Details Reference number 317933 Salary £75,000 - £85,000 A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27% Job grade SCS Pay Band 1 Contract type Permanent Business area HO - Migration and Borders Type of role Operational Delivery Working pattern Flexible working, Full-time, Job share Number of jobs available 1 Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Durham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Peterborough, Sheffield About the job Job summary Working with international partners on the UK’s migration priorities The Home Office’s goals are to cut crime, prevent terrorism, control immigration, protect the vulnerable, and respond effectively to crises. The Border Policy and International Migration (BPIM) Directorate, within the Home Office’s Migration and Borders Group, is responsible for ensuring the UK has a safe and secure border, by allowing for the legitimate movement of people and goods and by tackling illegal migration. This includes working with international partners on our migration interests. Job description As one of two Deputy Directors in the International Migration Unit (part of the BPIM Directorate), you will focus on improving international cooperation on both legal and illegal migration. This role has specific responsibility for the delivery of our migration priorities with countries outside of Europe. This will include ensuring that we have the right frameworks in place with other countries to ensure the return of those that do not have the right to remain in the UK; that we are deploying programme funds effectively in support of work to prevent illegal migration; and that we are addressing organised immigration crime upstream and in transit countries. You can expect to personally shape and lead negotiations and engagement with counterparts from other countries. You will also need to be collaborative, working effectively with colleagues from across the department and in other Whitehall departments (especially the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) to ensure we have a clear and agreed view of our priorities and are working together to deliver against them. You will also play an important role in the wider leadership of the Directorate, working closely with the other Deputy Director (who focuses on Europe) on cross-cutting priorities, providing clear direction to colleagues in the Unit and supporting them in their development, and taking on a wider corporate role for either the Directorate or Group. To succeed in this role, you will need either experience of developing and delivering migration policy or experience of working or delivering on international policy. This should be combined with strong leadership and the ability to foster a positive organisational culture. Excellent communication, networking and negotiating skills are essential as you will be expected to interact confidently and credibly with UK Ministers and senior overseas representatives. We’ll also look for the ability to develop sound strategic approaches and then to drive practical delivery. You’ll also have the capacity to work collaboratively in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment. Programme management experience or financial management experience will be important. In return we offer extensive training and development tailored to your role, along with structured career progression. Other benefits include access to a valuable civil service pension and flexible working arrangements. Person specification Key Responsibilities Leading engagement with overseas governments on UK legal and illegal migration policy, including specific negotiations on a country basis Working collaboratively with other departments across Whitehall to ensure that migration interests are appropriately reflected in wider government efforts, including in relation to foreign and development policy (with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) Secure an ambitious programme of returns agreements with source and transit countries, or operational improvements to existing cooperation Delivering through an immediate leadership span of c.20 FTE, as well as through operational and policy colleagues across the wider department including via Justice and Home Affairs attaches based in the overseas network Providing leadership to the entire International Migration Unit, as part of joint leadership of the Unit with the other Deputy Director Being an active member of the wider Directorate's senior leadership team (6 SCS1 colleagues in total), taking on corporate responsibilities and role modelling an accessible, inclusive and collaborative leadership approach. Responsibility for our programme funds, including our International Migration Fund. Benefits Alongside your salary of £75,000, Home Office contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. 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% Things you need to know Selection process details Essential Criteria The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioral approach to a high standard against the following key criteria: Experience of developing and delivering migration policy OR experience of working on an international portfolio’ Strong leadership, able to foster a positive organisational culture that gets the best from a diverse team Excellent communication, networking and negotiating skills High levels of personal impact, able to interact confidently and credibly with UK Ministers; and/or senior foreign interlocutors Ability to develop well evidenced strategic approaches and then to proactively drive practical delivery Capacity to work collaboratively in a complex, multi stakeholder environment Programme management experience or financial management experience Online Application Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs on Sunday 22nd October 2023. Provide some basic personal information; A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years; A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 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. Diversity Monitoring - as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information. It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview. Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. For further information on SCS careers and the application process, please see below: Home Office SCS Further Information Home Office Senior Leaders - Home Office Careers Home Office SCS Application Process Applying for Senior Civil Service vacancies - Home Office Careers 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). 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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 Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) 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). 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. Apply and further information 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 : Rishi Bhalla Email : [email protected] Recruitment team Email : [email protected]