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Job summary

The Levelling Up Major Programmes directorate sits in the Regeneration Group in the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). Together with our sister directorate, Community Investment and Funding Services, we are responsible for a portfolio of levelling up programmes worth over £38bn.    

Our primary purpose is to deliver funding programmes which are at the heart of the Government’s ambitious UK wide levelling up agenda, empowering local government to drive growth and improve living standards. The £4.8bn Levelling Up Fund which this team is responsible for sits alongside other complementary Funds managed by the directorate including the £3.6bn Towns Fund and £2.6bn UKSPF. Together these programme teams aim to ensure our investment and regeneration priorities deliver meaningful change that improve people's everyday lives.  

Through our work, we aim to deliver a step change in user experience for ministers and grant recipients to ensure we deliver best value and learn from what works. As one of the Government’s major projects this means delivering to the highest standards providing ministers and our Accounting Officer with a high degree of assurance. This means delivering exemplary governance, performance, and risk management, and tightly managing programme finances. Robust monitoring and evaluation is a bedrock of our assurance and directly informs future programme design.  

This is an exciting time to join the LUF Delivery team. You will have the opportunity to work in a high-profile area with significant interest from stakeholders such as Secretary of State, HMT and No.10. Collectively our work will help demonstrate the impact of LUF programme, strengthen our evidence base to improve future policy making and programme design, and enhance Monitoring & Evaluation capability and governance throughout the group.   

Job description

The available post sits in the MI & Reporting team.

Key responsibilities

The job holder will be responsible for supporting monitoring data and information collection through the existing data collection process.

They will seek to continually improve the process and the quality of data and information in a way that meets the expectations of stakeholders, and improves overall understanding of the outputs, outcomes and impact of the funding.   

Supporting strong programme / performance management for the LUF Delivery Team.

Develop quality engagement with the LUF Performance Delivery Team, ensuring user requirements are incorporated in the end to end performance management digital solution, and assisting with their reporting and data requirements.

Support work to design funding programmes, including developing guidance and application materials, FAQs and informing ongoing operational policy decisions.

The post holder will also work closely with the DLUHC analyst team, Funding Delivery Portfolio Office, analysts and Area / Nations teams. The successful applicant will be responsible for understanding how the programme is being delivered on the ground through effective reporting, management information and performance management of projects.

To be flexible in supporting the development of other funding programmes and the wider changes across the Regeneration Group.

Person specification

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated, with great people and communication skills, coupled with strong analytical and problem solving skills to join our team. Specifically, you will have: 

·                        Strong organisational skills and the ability to work with others to deliver at pace.

·                        Experience of project or programme management.

·                        Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·                        Experience of working with complex quantitative and qualitative data sets.

·                        Strong understanding in Microsoft Excel and data validation techniques

·                        Seeking to continually improve the quality of data and information to assist with overall understanding of the outputs, outcomes and impact of the funding.   

·                        Ability to pick up new tasks and concepts quickly and lead others in doing the same.

·                        Strong teamwork skills and the ability to establish and develop productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, bringing people together to benefit the objective.

·                        The ability to adapt to changing circumstances and adverse situations whilst remaining calm, reassuring others and maintaining performance.

·                        Attention to detail with the ability to engage with data.

Desirable criteria

·                        Experience in using all Office 365 applications.

·                        Experience of large capital grant funded projects.

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving

• Managing a Quality Service

• 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 with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.

We are for everyone 

At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation. 

We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.  

We are for everyone 

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.  

Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).  

Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.  

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors. 

When writing your application, remember: 

• The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.  

• Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.  

• If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on!) 

At sift, we will be assessing 

Behaviour 1 (lead behaviour) - Changing and improving

Behaviour 2 - Managing a quality service

Behaviour 3 - Delivering at pace

There is a 250 word limit per question. 

In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progress straight to assessment/interview  

The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:    

Behaviours - Making effective decisions,Changing and improving, Managing a quality service, Delivering at pace 

Strengths - The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.  

In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements: 

Behaviours: Making effective decisions, Changing and improving, Managing a quality service, Delivering at pace 

Strengths: Yes

We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs 

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign. 

SEO salary 

• The salary for this role is £37,064 (National). 

• For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply and is non-negotiable. 

BENEFITS: 

Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018: 
Any move to DLUHC 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 

For further information about the benefits available to DLUHC employees, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: 

• Bristol

• Nottingham

• Manchester

• Leeds

• Wolverhampton 

• Darlington* 

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role. 

*Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service. This role is based at DLUHC and we will be joined on the campus by: 

• HM Treasury  

• Department for International Trade

• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  

• Office for National Statistics  

• Department for Education 

For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack. 

SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES: 

Sifting is envisaged to take place from 06/06/2023 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall. 

RESERVE LIST: 
 
In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact recruitment@levellingup.gov.uk to be removed from the reserve list. 

Candidate Pack Information 

Please see attached Candidate pack for further information. 

Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules 

Internal Fraud Database 

The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.  

For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.