This post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road), Norwich (Rosebery Court) or Darlington (Feethams House).
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.
Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.
We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you!
Public Spending Group
The Public Spending Group is a high-profile and rewarding place to work. We help the Chancellor decide what to spend £1.2trillion a year on and ensure government delivers value for money for the taxpayer. We are responsible for reporting to Parliament and the public on how taxpayers’ money is spent. We drive forward improved outcomes and efficiency in public services and make sure value for money is at the centre of decision-making through better evaluation, data and analysis.
We advise on overall government policy on public sector pay and pensions, the biggest single driver of public spending. We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance, debt and risk capability across government and developing the management information, tools and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money.
This People & Capability Team is based within HM Treasury and supports the Government Finance Function across all Departments, arms lengths bodies and agencies.
The Government Finance Function (GFF)
The GFF ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government – delivering value for money, strengthening public trust.
The Finance Function comprises of over 8,500 FTE spread across 39 Government organisations.
The Function needs to move at pace to make further progress towards its vision and the decision has been taken to strengthen and formalise the functional centre for the Government Finance Function, aligned to the Civil Service Functional Leadership model.
The People and Capability Team
This role sits within the People & Capability team. Priorities for the team include:
As the Career Development Manager for the Government Finance Function, you will be joining our team of Finance, HR and L&D Professionals who are responsible for leading the GFF People and Capability offer for the function across government.
At the heart of this work is developing professional capability for the Government Finance Function, ensuring a high quality, evidenced based, diverse and value for money professional skills offer for the GFF (c8500 people) and developing our Finance Career Framework to ensure staff working across Government Finance have clearly defined roles to work in, and access to exciting and varied career pathways across government.
This role provides an excellent opportunity to work across Government and Professional boundaries, working on 2 key work areas within the People & Capability team, the Finance Career Framework (civilservice.gov.uk) and the Finance Professional Development teams.
The role will have responsibility for managing and supporting the Finance Professional Development offer, including Accelerated Development programmes, Finance Fast Stream, Finance Apprenticeships, and to support professional development linking into the Government Finance Academy wider learning offer as well as supporting the evolution and development of the Finance Career Framework and implementation of the Skills Capture Tool to help us understand and develop skills and capabilities across the GFF.
Success in this role will require you to work across and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across organisational boundaries as a trusted partner, utilising your skills and experience to build a strong network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to drive outcomes for the Government Finance Function.
This role plays a key role in shaping these high profile areas of Government Finance, supporting professional capability and shaping the standards for the Government Finance Function of the future within the Career Framework, the role will support interaction with key governance groups and senior stakeholders and will link across all areas of finance capability within the GFF.
Key accountabilities include:
If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact Katrina.williams@hmtreasury.gov.uk or Suzanne.ibbotson@hmtreasury.gov.uk
We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.
Behaviours:
The lead criterion is: Communicating and Influencing
If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.
Candidate Drop-In Session
Candidate Guidance Support Session – Microsoft Teams
We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach including top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. Please note that this session is not role specific, so we will be unable to answer specific questions about roles we are advertising. If you would like to join us, please use the link below to join the call at the right time.
Teams meeting link - 12:30 -1:15pm Thursday 13th February
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
Alongside your salary of £33,450, HM Treasury contributes £9,690 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Flexible Working Arrangements
HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.
At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites - Darlington, London, and Norwich, and along with the rest of the Civil Service, has an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.
The office working expectation is linked to the location of the role. If you apply to a post in a single location, then you will not be able to meet this expectation at any of our other sites or move your role to another location.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Complaints Process: Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email at: hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
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