Transformation Director

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role.

Job description

This is a pivotal leadership role, joining a small and collaborative executive team committed to delivering OPG’s strategy of being customer focussed, innovating and modernising together. This role is critical in shaping and delivering OPG strategic roadmap, driving forward OPG’s transformation portfolio, developing customer insight capabilities and supporting change and innovation throughout OPG, along with making sure OPG has the capability and capacity for the future.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting into the Public Guardian and Chief Executive, you will:

• Ensure the delivery of OPG’s transformation portfolio, including Modernising Lasting Powers of Attorney which is critical to OPG’s longer-term financial stability and improving customer experience and outcomes.
• Develop and implement OPG’s Target Operating Model and Strategic Workforce Plan, including planning for and delivering significant people change.
• Set clear strategic direction for OPG, along with development of the roadmap to deliver OPG’s strategy.
• Strengthen customer insight and experience to drive evidence-based decision making and improved services.
• Champion innovation, including drawing together initiatives that test and embed AI in OPG.
• Strengthen and promote the reputation of OPG across government and externally.
• Be a visible, approachable and authentic leader as part of the Executive team, building a positive and engaged culture, and nurture resilient and well-functioning teams.
• Provide challenge, support and scrutiny as a member of OPG Executive Committee, Portfolio and Change Board, and wider OPG governance.
• As part of the senior leadership team, support OPG through a period of significant change and be adaptable to changing responsibilities.

You should provide clear evidence and examples that demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role. Later in this pack, you will find details of which elements will be assessed at each stage of the process, helping you focus your application and prepare effectively.

Essential Experience:

• Experience of leading and setting direction for large, diverse teams with oversight of a broad portfolio of work, including building and empowering resilient teams able to prioritise and adapt to new challenges.
  
  
• Experience of strategic development and delivery – experience of turning ambition into achievements.
  
  
• Experience of being part of a leadership team managing an organisation through significant change and transformation to achieve better quality service for customers.
  
  
• Able to work collaboratively across organisational lines to achieve shared objectives by developing excellent relationships.
  
  
• Proven experience of gripping complex issues, setting clear priorities and delivering through others to agreed timescales.

Person specification

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the [2] Civil Service People Plan and the [3] Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

References

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1. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity
2. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-plan-2024-2027
3. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Behaviours

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

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £86,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

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

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out a