External
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).
To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process accessed via the advertisement listed for this role. This should be completed by no later than 23:55 on 20 February 2025 and will involve completing the following application form sections:
1. An online application form setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements and relevant professional qualifications. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years; and
2. A Statement of Suitability of up to 1250 words detailing how your meet the essential criteria referencing evidence of your experience and skills.
Failure to submit a full application will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.
The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.
Your application may be rejected and/or you may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.
Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.
Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:
Meets all essential criteria
Meets some essential criteria
Meets no essential criteria
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to attend a remote panel interview in order to have a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification. The interview will assess the following Behaviours:
Seeing the Big Picture
Leadership
Changing and Improving
Managing a Quality Service
Working Together
As part of the interview, candidates will be required to deliver a 5-minute presentation, based on Experience, the topic of which will be confirmed prior to the interview. Slides will be permitted.
Full details of the assessment process will be made available to shortlisted candidates. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.
Interviews will be held from week commencing 11th March 2025. Please note, these dates are subject to change.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Clearance.
For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years as the role requires Security Check (SC). UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
