Job description

We are a new counter-fraud team in the Net Zero Buildings and Industry Group. This is one of the most exciting policy and delivery areas in BEIS and one of the biggest contributors across Government to delivering on net zero by 2050. The group will invest around £4 billion over the next 3 years in energy efficiency and decarbonising heat measures across the UK’s 30 million homes, businesses and public sector buildings.

We are looking for people who can help build an innovative approach to managing fraud risk that enables the programmes to achieve the best possible policy outcomes for the investment.

Our goal is to support policy and delivery colleagues to better identify and manage their fraud risks. Activities across the team could include:

• Providing practical assistance with fraud risk assessments, implementing fraud management plans, or conducting assurance reviews

• Developing common standards and tools

• Facilitating access to common services such as data sources, red teaming, debt recovery or prosecutions; or

• Engaging with the BEIS central counter fraud team and the wider Government Counter Fraud Function to draw on and contribute to the development of best practice.

Experience of counter fraud methodologies is highly desirable, but not essential and we encourage applications from people with transferable skills and experience from other relevant fields.

There will be a strong emphasis on continual professional development within the team. We will encourage and support you to build on your skills and experience to develop as a counter fraud professional. We strongly support our people’s career development and offer leadership development opportunities, as well as mentoring programmes, networking and peer-to peer learning.

If eligible, as part of this role you will have the opportunity to undertake the Improvement Practitioner – Level 4 or Improvement Specialist – Level 5 apprenticeship dependant on existing qualifications and experience.

Further details regarding these apprenticeships can be found via the link below:

Improvement Practitioner – Level 4 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/improvement-practitioner-v1-0

Improvement Specialist – Level 5 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/improvement-specialist-v1-0

Our aim is for the fraud management approach in NZBI to be seen as an exemplar across BEIS and wider Government.

You will be entitled to the benefits of working for the civil service including flexible working and the option to join the civil service pension scheme. Along with 25 days annual leave, growing by 1 day for each year of service up to 30 days leave entitlement.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and promote equality of opportunity, to enable us to reflect the communities that we serve. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We pride ourselves on being an open and encouraging workplace. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable adjustments, including accommodation, to enable them to participate in the job application process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities in this role would be to:

• Provide expert support to schemes to develop and implement their fraud management framework in line with the counter fraud functional standards.

• Engage with senior leads across the Net Zero programmes and policy areas to identify their support requirements for operating to counter fraud function standards.

• Work closely with priority programmes and policy areas to provide expert support on designing, implementing and operating counter fraud standards and best practice throughout the lifecycle of a scheme. Engagement could include fielding enquiries, facilitating workshops thorough to being embedded in a project delivery team for short periods.

• Champion the adoption of BEIS fraud function standards and methodologies across the programmes, such as Fraud Risk Assessments, Operational Fraud Risk management plans, data analysis, and fraud resolution services.

• Undertake benchmarking of counter fraud performance across the portfolio and work in partnership with programme leads to deliver recommendations from assurance activities.

• Establish and maintain an overview of fraud risk management maturity across the programmes.

• Contribute to the process of evaluation and continuous improvement for service delivery, collaborating across the CFU, BEIS and the wider Government Counter Fraud Function where required, to identify lessons learned,gather insights, and drive dissemination of best practice.

• Provide regular reporting on performance and progress of support to individual schemes and adoption of fraud standards.

• Contribute to strategic development of the counter fraud capability within BEIS and wider Government Counter Fraud Function.

Skills & Experience

The ideal candidate would be:

• A highly motivated individual with strong critical thinking skills who can deliver in a high profile and fast paced environment.

• A strong leader – with excellent organisational skills, able to provide technical expertise to support the development, management and delivery of high quality products and services, preferably with experience of delivering business improvement; supporting delivery of business goals, for example through analysis of systems or processes through use of data

• Somebody who can develop strong networks, working well with and through others to deliver change, experience of leading specialists desirable

• An excellent communicator, able to champion and promote the benefits of a new and innovative approaches and have an ability to distil down analysis, identify key findings and communicate them with conviction.

Experience of counter fraud methodologies is highly desirable, but not essential - transferable skills and experience from other relevant disciplines are welcome

Experience of climate change/energy/environment policy is helpful but not crucial

If eligible, as part of this role you will have the opportunity to undertake the Improvement Practitioner – Level 4 or Improvement Specialist – Level 5 apprenticeship dependant on existing qualifications and experience.

Further details regarding these apprenticeships can be found via the link below:

Improvement Practitioner – Level 4 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/improvement-practitioner-v1-0

Improvement Specialist – Level 5 https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/improvement-specialist-v1-0

Behaviours

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

Leadership

Managing a Quality Service

Delivering at Pace

Changing and Improving

Benefits

BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.

Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.

An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.

Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts