About the job

Summary

The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this effort since 1782. As such, we play a fundamental role in maintaining the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

The Home Office leads on immigration and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy.

Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) enables the Home Office to keep the UK safe and secure. We design and build the services that help people apply for visas or passports; support policing and counter-terrorism operations; and protect the UK’s borders.

This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.

Our work is guided by these principles:

• We put user needs first

• We value delivery and outcomes over process

• We work in the open

Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.

We work hard to maintain a positive working culture and are committed to helping you fulfil your potential. We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment to help you do your best work.

You can keep up-to-date with our work on the Home Office DDaT blog.

Job description

PPPT is structured into several large-scale delivery portfolios, each portfolio delivering significant national scale capabilities to our customer base.

The National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) aims to build a modern and affordable Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) to replace the Police National Computer (PNC) and the Police National Database (PND), LEDS is a unified, cloud-based system which will provide a joined-up view of Law Enforcement records and intelligence.

The Lead Project Manager for the Law Enforcement Data Service Training is a key member of the National Law Enforcement Data Programme Adoption Team within the Home Office Digital, Data and Technology Directorate (DDaT).

The successful candidate will be working with product teams, senior stakeholder and Law Enforcement Agencies to agree the learning strategy, develop the delivery approach. You and a team of Training specialists will work with the wider Adoption training team to develop learning artefacts to support product adoption.

You will work closely with the product teams to align the learning delivery as the products are developed and deployed. You will lead a team(s) of project delivery specialists providing guidance and advice, and fostering an open collaborative culture. You will draw on your extensive experience of project management to bring best practice and continuous improvements to processes within the team.

This is a challenging and fast paced role which has a number of delivery strands and a complex stakeholder landscape. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively on a key project with wide reaching impact and offers a high level of personal visibility.

Responsibilities

As the Lead Project Manager, your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Driving and overseeing the end to end delivery of LEDS Training Strategy project(s) in the National Law Enforcement Programme to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined, monitored and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints.

• Identifying, engaging with and managing the complex and varied project(s) stakeholder landscape across UK Law Enforcement Agencies. Translating requirements into deliverables and using good judgement to determine where senior level support is required.

• Leading on project(s) performance and controls e.g. delivery objectives, project planning and performance and reporting using appropriate governance frameworks.

• Identifying and monitoring project risks, issues and interdependencies with related projects. Develop and implement timely mitigating actions / contingency plans, escalating where appropriate.

• Developing and managing project budget(s) and resourcing plans and tracking delivery.

• Implementing and managing effective and appropriate project processes and governance in line with the programme’s approach to change control and internal assurance boards.

Other day to day activities

You will also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

• Leading the multi-disciplinary project team(s) ensuring effective collaboration internally and externally.

• Owning the production of key project management products, ensuring they meet the required quality standards and are approved by the relevant stakeholders.

• Leading on supplier engagement for the project(s) in line with the overarching commercial strategy, liaising with the programme commercial team.

• Undertaking business activities required to integrate project outputs including training guidance and material into the ‘business as usual’ environment.

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate will have a demonstrable passion for change management, with the following skills or proven experience in:

• Delivering all aspects of business transformation projects, through design, build, test, reporting and integration within a complex stakeholder environment.

• Planning and resourcing the project delivery plan, including assessing what skills and functions may be required, and expected durations of activities.

• Demonstrating strong leadership.

• Managing stakeholder relationships against a backdrop of conflicting demands and commercial complexity with the ability to establish credibility and exert influence at both a strategic and operational level.

• Demonstrating excellent knowledge and application of Project and programme management methodologies, processes & tools including iterative product delivery.

• Communicating confidently and with precision across all mediums.

• Analysing, presenting and advising on complex datasets.

Desirable Criteria

Ideally you will also have the following skills or some experience in:

• Working on government projects or programmes

• Understanding of the UK Law Enforcement landscape

Additionally one of the following qualifications, would also be beneficial:

• PRINCE2 Practitioner

• Agile Project Management Practitioner

• APM Project Management Qualification

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role

• An environment with flexible working options

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

• A Civil Service pension

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

As part of the application process you will be asked to submit a CV and provide a Statement of Suitability (Max Limit: 750 words).

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please note your Statement of Suitability should concisely explain your motivation for applying for this role, whilst demonstrating your skills and experience and evidencing how you meet the Essential Criteria listed within the job advertisement.

The sift will be based on the Statement of Suitability.

Please note that the CV will be used for information purposes only and will not be scored.

Candidates shortlisted will be invited to an interview where they will be asked questions based on their Experience and the Behaviours listed in the job advertisement