Deputy Director for Police , Fire Funding and Criminal Justice Strategy Unit

The Home Office is central to UK life. Our work extends from devising drugs policies and ensuring the immigration system is not being abused, to delivering an accountable policing service. Join us in this important senior role and you’ll have a fantastic opportunity to make your mark in our Strategy, Capabilities and Resources Directorate, which is part of the Public Safety Group.
The unit you’ll join manages a large policing budget, and leads on criminal justice system strategy. You’ll have a wide range of responsibilities, including coordinating the Home Office’s role within the criminal justice system (CJS) and mapping demand flows across the system. We’ll also expect you to improve the progression of case files from the police to the Crown Prosecution Service, enhance the use of data within the CJS, and coordinate Home Office policy relating to victims of crime.
But your work won’t stop here – additional tasks will include driving productivity across policing and supporting the delivery of technical and allocative efficiencies to policing. Leading and inspiring a team of 35 colleagues, you’ll also play a key role in supporting the Safer Streets Mission and in helping to deliver the Home Secretary’s ambitious plans relating to the reform of policing., As a confident, empowering and inspirational leader who can motivate and develop a diverse team with a varied portfolio, you’ll be ready to operate in an ambiguous and fast-developing political environment while thinking strategically and applying careful attention to detail., 1.A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
2.A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
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This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
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+ 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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Highly numerate and capable of taking an analytical approach to complex problems and the identification of practical solutions, we’ll expect you to have well developed experience of negotiating with a diverse range of senior stakeholder groups including Chief Officers, Ministers and Strategy and Policy Leads. You should also have strong organisational skills and the ability to deliver multiple priorities to challenging deadlines. In addition, experience of working on strategic finance issues would be desirable, as would an understanding of the criminal justice system., + A confident, empowering and inspirational leader of a diverse team who can motivate, inspire and develop their team with a varied portfolio or work.
+ Highly numerate and can take an analytical and evidence-based approach to complex problems and identify practical solutions.
+ Experience of working in ambiguous, shifting, and fast-developing political environments with an ability to think strategically and work with detail.
+ Strategic thinking skills taking into account relevant factors such as evidence analysis and views across the department, our stakeholder, and having an awareness of the political context.
+ Experience of negotiating across multiple senior stakeholder groups including Chief Officers, Minister’s, Strategy and policy leads etc and with high levels of personal impact.
+ Experience of leading a team to successfully deliver high-quality results with strong organisational skill to deliver multiple priorities to challenging timeframes.
Desirable Criteria:
+ Experience of working on strategic finance issues is desirable as well as an understanding or knowledge of the criminal justice system.

n return for your skills and expertise we can offer you a great career with one of the Government’s most interesting and inclusive departments. And with ongoing training and development opportunities and a highly competitive benefits package, there’s no saying where your career will take you at the Home Office., Alongside your salary of £76,000, Home Office contributes £20,520 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ 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%