Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Swansea (Hybrid)

Salary: £34,233 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

This is a varied and fast paced role, that will present the opportunity to work with a variety of senior key people, supporting a wide range of work across the agency. The successful post holder will engage confidently with senior leaders in DVSA, championing the assurance principles and values, encouraging an objective, positive, transparent assurance culture across the organisation. The role holder will identify trends and analyse data from across the Portfolio to provide insights to decisions makers leading the Agency.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Act as a key point of contact and provide for best practice advice for programmes, associated projects and related business areas.
• Advise Senior Responsible Owners (SROs), programme and project teams with quality assurance and quality control activities within project lifecycles using insight from governance risk, and controls.
• Provide support to the Head of Risk Management & Business Resilience to ensure an effective risk management framework is in place for the agency.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience of giving sound advice and support to senior stakeholders
• Experience of working in a project and/ or programme delivery environment
• Proven track record of the implementation, management and assessment of processes and standards including templates.
• Understanding of risk management policies and processes

If not already held, there will be a development opportunity when in post to work towards one of the following qualifications.

• PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner level
• Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Foundation or Practitioner level
• Better Business Cases
• Agile awareness or equivalent
• Awareness of Risk Management practices