As the Head of Governance and Private Office you will operate at the heart of the new regulator. You will advise the CEO and Chair on a wide range of issues, support them in leading the organisation, and visibly drive forward their priorities. You will provide leadership to the Governance team, helping develop the board secretariat and executive governance functions to support robust and timely decision making.
You will need to show strong judgement, and have an outstanding ability to prioritise and organise. You will be strategic, able to spot key issues as they arise, consider competing viewpoints and advise the Chair and CEO appropriately, staying calm and resilient under pressure.
You will be able to build and maintain strong working relationships with other, often more senior stakeholders, as well as holding them to account for delivery. You will have significant leadership experience and strong communication skills, be comfortable leading and developing a new team and representing the Chair and CEO at all levels.
Person specification
Essential Requirements
Experience of working with, and delivering on behalf of, senior stakeholders.
Leadership: outstanding leadership skills, both of developing teams and corporately; with the ability to build a strong team culture and ethos, and to motivate and manage a team to deliver at pace on a challenging and complex agenda.
Seeing the big picture: the ability to understand and analyse complex policy and delivery issues at pace; and to use your judgement to provide clear, strategic advice.
Communicating and influencing: the confidence to deliver difficult messages with clarity and sensitivity, being persuasive when required; and to communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust and explain complex issues.
Delivering at pace: the ability to translate priorities into objectives for managers and teams; provide clarity about the action required to achieve results and address unexpected developments; and establish a culture which allows people to deliver their objectives.
Desirable Skills
Knowledge of the football pyramid.
We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. this will be hosted by Laura Nell and will take place on:
Monday 17th March at 11.30
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. The invites will be sent the night before the session.
Please note that the session will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding, etc.) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk
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