32 Full time, Executive / Management jobs in Bishop Auckland, County Durham

Are you looking for an exciting, high profile Spending Principal role offering significant opportunities to work with Ministers and senior officials on a high priority policy area ? If so, we’d love to hear from you !

About the Team

The Justice, Home Affairs and Equalities team are part of the Public Services Group at the heart of HM Treasury’s work to secure sustainable public finances and drive economic growth. We manage public spending of more than £250bn. across key public services and departments, including health, education, the criminal justice system, local government, housing, defence and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

We are a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive team responsible for HM Treasury’s relationship with the Home Office, National Crime Agency, Ministry of Justice, Law Officer’s Departments, Parliament’s spending, and our equalities responsibilities. As a team, we are committed to personal development, and achieving a healthy work-life balance.

You will join the Home Office branch of the team, which leads on spending control of the Home Office, law enforcement strategy, and borders and asylum policy.

About the Job

Your responsibilities will include:

·        Delivering effective spending control of the Home Office - Working alongside the department to understand their financial plans, identify and mitigate spending risks, and work closely with Home Office and Treasury colleagues as issues arise. The role will involve finding opportunities for a more efficient use of resources and supporting ministers in taking difficult decisions on how to deliver quality outcomes for the taxpayer. You will also lead on delivering Mains and Supplementary Estimates (including negotiating reserve claims) for the department.

·        Leading at spending reviews - You will play a key leadership role at spending reviews, coordinating work from across the team to form its view of the numbers, and leading the relationship with central teams in HMT, helping show the trade-offs between the marginal investment or saving in the Home Office versus the equivalent elsewhere in Government.

·        Leading the development and delivery of high-profile policy reforms – Leading on visa and legal migration policy, the Home Office’s workforce strategy, the Home Office's wider efficiencies work and its capital portfolio. This will entail working with the department at senior levels to support and challenge proposals as they develop to ensure they deliver value for money.

·        Providing advice on new policy ideas or ad hoc spending issues as they arise

·        Managing Senior Executive Officers (SEO) and Higher Executive Officers (HEO) – the role currently line manages an SEO and an HEO. You will also contribute to matrix and task managing the wider group of HEOs in the team.

About You

This is a stretching Grade 7 role and will require developing and maintaining positive relationships with teams across the Treasury, Home Office, No.10 and Cabinet Office.

You will have strong analytical, numerical and policy skills and the ability to make effective judgements drawing on different sources of quantitative and qualitative evidence. You will be able to understand the broader strategic context and keep on top of a wide range of issues when making decisions in your policy area. You will also have stakeholder management and influencing skills, with a proven ability to deliver through others and build positive relationships with a range of senior partners.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

·        25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month

·        Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)

·        Generous parental and adoption leave packages

·        Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%

·        Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances

·        A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form