The post holders will play a key role in influencing and driving forward a variety of activities to support data protection, information management and information rights in DWP. The main responsibilities will include but not limited to: Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure needs are identified. Leading a team to achieve its team objectives. Building a culture of continuous improvement. Providing expert advice and guidance to the business on data protection, information management and information rights. Person specification The post-holder will need to demonstrate strong leadership, communication, analytical and stakeholder management skills, have the ability to operate within a complex environment, be able to brief senior leaders clearly and confidently, and lead a team to deliver a high-quality professional service. Essential Criteria: You have proven experience of leading and motivating teams of subject matter experts to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role, ensuring they deliver to the highest professional and quality standards. You have proven experience of working in either a data protection, data privacy, information rights or information management role or a closely related and comparable profession, and have demonstrated the ability to identify, prioritise and resolve issues promptly and effectively in a practical manner You have proven experience of building strong interpersonal relationships to achieve progress on shared objectives, but challenge assumptions while being willing to compromise if beneficial to progress. You have proven experience of producing excellent communications, influencing people and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to assimilate and interpret information quickly, explain complex propositions simply and clearly and articulate persuasive arguments to colleagues at all levels. You have proven experience of critical thinking by analysing and interpreting data from various sources to support decision making including ensuring decision making happens at the right level and encourage both innovative suggestions and challenge from others. Have proven experience of prioritising a large and varied workload, take decisions under pressure on own initiative and meet challenging deadlines to ensure the delivery of quality outcomes that meet customer needs and expectations. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Leadership Communicating and Influencing Making Effective Decisions Managing a Quality Service Benefits Alongside your salary of 72,664, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. The selection process is as follows: Personal statement and CV: Provide a CV covering work history, achievements in the role and qualifications. Personal Statement (maximum 1250 words). Please note in the event of a large number of applications the initial sift will be based on the essential criteria of: You have proven experience of leading and motivating teams of subject matter experts to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role, ensuring they deliver to the highest professional and quality standards. Interview: Successful candidates will be invited to a face-to-face interview. Candidates will be assessed on Behaviours. Candidates will be required to deliver a 5-minute technical presentation at interview. Details of the topic will be issued ahead of the interview. There will be no equipment available to connect to. Sift and Interview Dates: Sift is expected to take place week commencing 17/03/25. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 31/03/25. These dates are still to be confirmed and therefore are subject to change. Places for Growth and Social Mobility. As part of the Places for Growth Programme, we are committed to delivering a more geographically diverse Civil and Public Service that will better serve the public and ministers. As part of this initiative, we are continuously reviewing how we recruit into each location. Postings Posting will be made in merit order by location, this will be based on the geographical requirement at the time. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to express a preference as part of the selection process, although the final decision may come down to business need, and the skills and development needs of candidate. Standard promotion rules will apply, and successful candidates will be placed on the pay scale and terms and conditions of DWP. The role available will be based in either: Leeds Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7UA. Manchester 2 St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3AA. Newcastle Benton Park View, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE98 1BA. Blackpool Peel Park, Blackpool, FY4 5ES Some travel may be required. Further Information Find out more about Working for DWP A reserve list may be held for a period of 6months from which further appointments can be made. Any move to DWP 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 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 Rec ord Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on you r 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 Pre-EmploymentChecks.grscabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading. You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Clearance. For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will 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. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers. 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 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. Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. 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. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DWPrecruitment.grscabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the Reasonable Adjustments 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 youre 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. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. 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