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The Public Safety Group’s (PSG) mission is to keep citizens safe, cut crime, protect the vulnerable and reform police, fire, and rescue services to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. This role is based in the Serious Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU) in PSG’s Crime Reduction Directorate.
Reducing crime is a key priority for the Government. The Prime Minister has a target of reducing serious violence by 20% by the end of the Parliament. This area of business is fast paced, with high visibility and an opportunity to contribute to the real impact of reducing serious violence. The role will offer you opportunities to develop your skill set in financial management and good practice in the serious violence space.
SVRU is responsible for ensuring that high priority policy commitments for serious violence are successfully delivered within a best practice, programme management discipline.
We are responsible for the Government’s flagship serious violence reduction and prevention programmes including:
- The Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) Programme - VRUs bring together key partners in local areas to identify the drivers of serious violence and deliver a multi-agency response to them.
- The GRIP Programme – providing investment to police forces to carry out ‘hotspot policing’ in the areas most affected by serious violence.
- The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) - a high-profile £200m investment over 10 years, focused on targeted early intervention for those children and young people most vulnerable to involvement in serious violence.
- The implementation and delivery of the Serious Violence Duty, a £13.1m investment for this year. The Duty requires a range of authorities to work collaboratively, to share data and information to put in place a strategy to prevent and reduce serious violence within their local communities.
- Trauma Informed Practice - an innovative intervention to help frontline workers recognise and respond to trauma in the young people they work with.
This role offers you the opportunity to be part of the financial assurance of programmes that receive a large amount of Government funding. Since 2019 the Home Office has invested up to £417.5m million on the VRU and Grip programmes alone, to support local agencies and help those communities which are most affected by serious violence.
Job description
The work of the Unit is rarely out of the news, is fast-paced and offers a real mix of finance, strategy, and policy. It attracts extensive interest from No.10, other Ministers, senior officials, other Government Departments, and wider stakeholders.
You will play a key role in providing assurance of the Unit’s finances, tracking spend, and working closely with the Finance Manager and programme leads to ensure good financial management and that any financial risks yo deliver are managed and/or escalated as appropriate. You will sit in the Serious Violence Programme Management office. This will give you the opportunity to work closely with and utilise the expertise of colleagues with strong experience in different aspects of programme delivery, policy, strategy and finance. You will also develop specialist knowledge of the SVRU programmes, as well as in relation to serious violence policy.
Person specification
The main responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:
Supporting the assurance of SVRU finances:
- Use information from various sources across the Unit to build a comprehensive and accurate picture of the Unit’s finances and identify any delivery opportunities or issues that arise from this.
- Provide support, guidance, and challenge to colleagues across the Unit for finance-related issues, as well as handling queries from other internal and external stakeholders.
- Work in conjunction with the SVRU Finance Manager, Finance Business Partners, and central finance to ensure the smooth running of the SVRU finance function, as well as leading with processing payments for some of the Unit’s programmes
- Work with the SVRU Finance Manager to give financial assurance to the Head of Unit and the Crime Reduction Directorate Director.
Leading on finance commissions and supporting wider strategic activity:
- Work with programme leads to produce high quality briefing and returns to commissions on a range of financial related issues
- Support the Finance Manager to work with the Unit’s PMO team to understand, track and manage finance milestones and risks for the Unit.
- Supporting the Finance Manager with a range of ad-hoc finance activity, such as the Unit’s Spending Review bid
- Work with the Programme Management Office and policy teams to assist with finance forecasting and planning, as well as identifying and mitigating risks to delivery to ensure positive outcomes for the Unit.
Role modelling positive Civil Service behaviours, as well as working to create a positive and inclusive workplace culture, both within the team and the wider Unit, where staff are happy and feel safe to challenge.
As with all posts in the Crime Reduction Directorate, the priorities may flex as directorate priorities change.
Essential criteria
- Good numeracy skills – you will need to be familiar and comfortable with handling financial data.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working with others.
- Comfortable using excel.
- Experience of working in a changing environment and planning, collaborating, and delivering multiple pieces of work.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience with financial systems such as processing payments, raising purchase orders etc.
- Some experience of working on fiscal events or on financial / value for money issues.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
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
As part of the application process candidates will be required to submit a CV and Statement of Suitability (of no more than 750 words). Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Your Statement of Suitability should be aligned to the Essential Criteria as set out in the job advertisement.
The sift will be held on the Statement of suitability. CVs will not be scored.
Successful candidates shortlisted for interview will be tested on Strength-Based questions and all the behaviours outlined in the job advertisement.
Sift and interview dates
The sift will take place week commencing 10th July 2023
Interviews will take place week commencing 31st July 2023
This timeline may change subject to business needs.
Interviews will take place remotely. Further details and instructions will be provided closer to the scheduled interview.
Further Information
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.
The successful candidates will be required to hold or be willing to secure CTC level security clearance.
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.
We often have similar roles available at different grades. If a candidate is suitable for a similar role or a lower grade than they have applied for, we may offer the candidate that role without the need for them to go through a further selection process.
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.
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 HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk 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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