security officer

security officer Wolverhampton, England

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Full Time Wolverhampton, England 49697 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

299423

Salary

£49,697
£49,697 (National) - For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Temporary
Fixed Term

Length of employment

2 years

Business area

Leasehold & Private Rented Sector

Type of role

Policy

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

Darlington, Wolverhampton

About the job

Job summary

The Leasehold and Private Rented Sector Directorate is leading on an ambitious reform programme at the heart of a thriving regeneration policy group in DLUHC.
The Private Rented Sector (PRS) Division leads on work to improve the experiences of landlords and tenants in the PRS, aiming to drive improvements to quality, security and fairness. This includes a flagship reform programme, including legislation, to deliver manifesto commitments to reform the sector and deliver on commitments to level up.


This role sits within the Financial Protections team, which oversees policies designed to protect tenants’ and landlords’ money. We manage the requirement for landlords to protect tenants’ deposits in a government-approved scheme, which ensures landlords don’t make unreasonable deductions or abscond with tenants’ money; as well as the requirement for letting agents to protect money they hold on tenants’ and landlords’ behalf in a government-approved Client Money Protection Scheme. We also manage the relationships and contracts with three tenancy deposit protection providers (who protect c£4.7bn of tenant deposits) and six client money protection providers (who protect c£3.3bn of money held by agents). These contracts are a high priority in the department, with regular ministerial and cross-departmental interaction.


You will lead our work to reprocure the Tenancy Deposit Protection contracts, which are due to expire in 2026. This will be a two-year piece of work, drawing on your commercial reprocurement experience, and require close working with the policy team, legal and DLUHC Commercial colleagues. You will be responsible for establishing a programme structure, identifying and leading us through the key procurement gateways, engaging with existing and prospective suppliers and delivering new contracts. It is likely that a number of variations will need to be considered, which you will lead on with the policy team. There may also be opportunities for involvement in the wider Financial Protections team’s work depending on work volumes and priorities.


We particularly welcome candidates from an ethnic minority background and other underrepresented groups to apply, as we work to continually improve our ability to represent the places and communities we support through our work.

Job description

Supported by an SEO Contract Manager, you will be the Department’s lead on reprocuring the Tenancy Deposit Protection contracts (which protect c£4.7bn of tenant deposits) and managing the transition from the existing contracts. This role will include:


  • Establishing a programme of work, bringing in relevant colleagues from legal, commercial and policy.
  • Leading on delivering this programme of work to schedule, including developing a governance framework to ensure we are on track and any risks are appropriately mitigated.
  • Developing relationships with the existing TDP providers, as well as prospective providers, ahead of the procurement exercise going live and leading engagement/pre-engagement with prospective suppliers.
  • Providing instructions and drafting contracts for appointed providers, including managing the business case and associated approvals, as well as leading and coordinating policy work to finalise decisions about any key changes in the requirements on suppliers .
  • Leading on ministerial engagement related to this reprocurement exercise.

There will be some flexibility for involvement in the team’s other policies, such as Client Money Protection, depending on work volumes

Person specification

  • Experience of delivering reprocurement exercises of medium to high value contracts
  • Strong commercial experience with the ability to lead discussions related to commercial activity
  • Experience of project and programme management, ideally with project management related qualifications
  • Experience of working across multi-skilled and matrix teams, ideally across commercial, legal, procurement and policy functions
  • Able to rapidly develop relationships and manage external relationships in a commercially sensitive environment
  • Ideally experience of working within policy teams, advising senior officials and Ministers

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Changing and Improving
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,697, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £13,418 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

We are for everyone


At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation.


We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.


We are for everyone


DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.


Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).


Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.


Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.


When writing your application, remember:

  • The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
  • Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
  • If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!)


At sift, we will be assessing


Experience (lead criteria) - Please outline your experience of contract reprocurement to date.


Behaviour 1 - Changing and Improving


Behaviour 2 - Making Effective Decisions


Behaviour 3 - Managing a Quality Service


There is a 250 word limit per question.


In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progress straight to assessment/interview


The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:

Behaviour

Experience


In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements:


Behaviours: (Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace)

Experience: (Yes)


We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.

Grade 7 salary

  • The salary for this role is or £49,697 (National).
  • For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable.



Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisation’s terms and conditions.

BENEFITS:

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018:
Any move to DLUHC 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

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack.


GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:

  • Wolverhampton
  • Darlington*


There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role.

  • Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service. This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by:
  • HM Treasury
  • Department for International Trade
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Department for Education


For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack.


SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES
:

Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 17/07/23 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.

Reserve List

In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact [email protected] to be removed from the reserve list.

Candidate Pack Information

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information.

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules


Internal Fraud Database

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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 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
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

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Contact point for applicants

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security officer
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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