Benefits Manager

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.
The Future Population and Migration Statistics (FPMS) Programme provides the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the opportunity to continue to transform the way in which it produces statistics on the population and society. It builds on the successful transformation of the Census and Data Collection Transformation Programme (CDCTP). A key focus of the Programme will be continuing and mainstreaming the use of administrative data in the production of these key statistics, working across the public sector to maximise this data asset. The FPMS Programme will create a sustainable system that will allow the ONS to scale up while providing the opportunity to be flexible and dynamic in how it responds to the emerging issues of the day.
The ONS FPMS Programme will build on the extensive research already undertaken into the potential of a census based on administrative data source.
This role is part of the Project Delivery Profession and is supported through Government standards and frameworks. Further Badging within the Government Economic Service or other Analytical Professions is also possible.
Line management sits within the Portfolio Team and professional accountability is to the Head of Profession., The role is ensure the standards of Business Cases and Benefit Realisation is to a level consistent with the Head of Profession’s aspirations within the continuous improvement assessment framework alongside the portfolio assurance approach.
This role involves overseeing the standard or production of business case and benefits realisation approach to justify public sector investment in projects and programmes.
Responsibilities:
+ Delivery & Leadership - Provide visible and effective leadership, lead benefits management and work with the project manager to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes. Develop clear vision and standards and champion the use of best practice benefits management standards, tools and processes. Build strong networks both internally and externally
+ Business Case - Support the project manager in preparing and updating the benefits elements of the Business Case working with specialists as required.
+ Benefits Management Strategy - Define and shape the benefits management strategy taking into account the wider organisation methodology.
+ Benefits Realisation Plan - Oversee the project Benefits Realisation Plan including change control. Identify risks to benefits realisation. Develop and propose mitigations.
+ Tracking & Reporting - Establish the mechanism for co-ordinated and consistent tracking and reporting of benefits through the project lifecycle and into realisation
+ Benefits Mapping - Co-ordinate workshops, maps benefits and ensures alignment. Circulates for agreement and approval. Works with a range of stakeholders to validate and test dependencies.
+ Stakeholder Management - Co-ordinate workshops, maps benefits and ensures alignment. Circulates for agreement and approval. Works with a range of stakeholders to validate and test dependencies., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Making Effective Decisions
+ Working Together
+ Leadership

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Benefits Management - Practitioner - Project Delivery Capability Framework
+ Business Change and Implementation – Practitioner - Project Delivery Capability Framework, At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
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Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.
Security Clearance
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.
A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link, or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.
At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:
+ Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
+ UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
+ Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
+ Security Services records
Assessment at application stage will be based on our job history and personal statement.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 1250 words. You should use this space to provide evidence for each essential criteria within the person specification. As the criteria are scored, we would recommend that you give clear examples for each including the impact of your actions. Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.
In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e. those scoring the highest.
Should you be invited to interview, you will be assessed using various assessment techniques aligned to the new Civil Service Success Profiles, where you'll be assessed against all the behaviours outlined in the advert.
A presentation or test may be required as part of the interview process. Further information will be provided to successful candidates prior to interview if necessary.
Interviews will be conducted by Video Conference.
Our main locations are Newport (South Wales), Titchfield and Darlington.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
The Sift will be conducted from 23/10/2024
Interviews will be conducted from 05/11/2024
For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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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.

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+ Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with a proven record of establishing, building and maintaining strong, collaborative and productive relationships across functional and organisational boundaries.
+ Benefits management experience to support projects and programmes. Identifying, valuing, planning, monitoring and realising benefits;
+ Effective management of relationships with and influencing of senior stakeholders.
+ Driving benefits management capability and action through the principles of continuous improvement and professional development.
+ Knowledge and experience of multiple delivery methodologies and experience of complex business case development and benefits management
+ Ability to shape and set direction on a workstream, agreeing core deliverables and motivating a diverse group of colleagues.
Desirable Criteria:
+ Experience in providing assurance around the planning, development and drafting production of Business Cases
+ Experience in business case and options/portfolio analysis management to support corporate investment decisions for large complex projects/programmes
+ An understanding and practical implementation of HM Treasury ‘Green Book’ and HM Treasury Guide to Developing the Project Business Case (Better Business Cases for Better Outcomes) including the ‘5 Case Model’ Behaviours

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