Length of employment: Job Summary: Do you want to be part of an energetic, innovative and supportive team, bringing your skills to one of the biggest changes to the administration of the Civil Service in decades? We're looking for people who are flexible, intuitive and are comfortable working in a challenging, cross-cutting programme environment. What is Synergy? Across government, shared services are being transformed. Departments have been grouped together into five 'clusters' to achieve this transformation. Synergy is the largest of these clusters, made up of the Ministry of Justice; Department for Work and Pensions; Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and the Home Office. Synergy will impact around 250,000 people in these departments and their arms-length bodies. Success of the programme is crucial, as Civil Servants rely on shared services to provide business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll and procurement. It affects everything we do, from joining a department as a new starter, the way we claim for expenses, how we buy goods and services, how we make a claim for our expenses, to the way we receive our pensions when we retire. What team would you be joining? The Department for Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. This role sits at the core of the programme, within the Synergy Shared Services Hub organisation design team. You will be joining a friendly team of 18 people, who are responsible for the organisation design and resourcing of the Synergy Shared Services Hub, which will centralise the Synergy Shared Service and its interface with Departments / Service Recipients. If you are passionate about the people aspects of large-scale transformation, then we are the team for you. Find out more about Working for DWP. Job Description: The work of the team is varied and diverse. You may be involved in resourcing challenges, including people transfers and recruitment, trade union engagement, commercial negotiations on the people aspects of contract awards, and organisation design focused on the end state target operating model. You will work closely with colleagues across the programme from a range of different functions, including business change, comms and engagement, commercial, project management, technology, product and data. You will also work more widely with colleagues from other departments in the Synergy cluster and external providers. This role would be suited to candidates from an HR background. The key attributes we are looking for are an ability to lead and influence senior multidisciplinary groups with confidence, being comfortable working through formal project management practices, and a passion for delivering the complex people impacts of large-scale transformation. Your responsibilities are likely to include: - Delivering people and organisational change aligned to and enabling the overall programme's success, working across teams and organisations. - Working with programme colleagues to develop the target operating model, ensuring alignment with multiple layers of design across the programme and the end state vision. - Supporting with the people aspects of commercial processes, including negotiations, contract award, and any resulting TUPE implications. - Running the process of people transfers based on legal advice, including mapping activity, consultation and delivery. - Collaborating with colleagues across the programme to ensure the team is connected with wider programme activity and is responsive to changes and developments. - Developing and being a visible leader for a compelling and inspirational people narrative and engagement strategy for the programme. Applicants should apply for suitable posts where they can travel to and from their home office location daily within a reasonable time. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed. Hybrid Working This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave - at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This will be a stretching role, requiring someone organised who is passionate about the people aspects of large-scale transformation and change. You will need to be comfortable working within a large and complex programme and working in ambiguity at times. Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following criteria: Lead Criteria : Proven track record of delivering people-centric transformation restructures in complex organisations, taking a whole system approach. Strong organisation skills. Comfortable with planning and delivering priorities against short and long term timescales. Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience of working with stakeholders at different levels who have diverse perspectives. Influencing skills, including the ability to influence at a senior and strategic level, building trust and credibility. The ability to engage, collaborate and challenge to expose points of difference and build consensus. Understanding of programme and project management principles. CIPD qualified to any level. Desirable Experience of managing commercial people processes. Experience of successfully managing and delivering TUPE / COSoP people transfers. CIPD Level 7 qualification or working towards it. As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and a 1000 word personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. Personal statement should be no more than 1000 words, there is no word limit on the CV. Both will contribute towards the sift. Applicants should submit a CV and Personal Statement stating how they meet the essential criteria set out within the Person Specification. Sift Initial selection will take place by sift, based on the person specification. If a high volume of applications is received, we will sift on the lead criteria.Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview. Interview At interview, we will select based on behaviours. You may be asked to deliver a short presentation, further information on the topic will be provided prior to interview. The behaviours we will select on are: Seeing the bigger picture Communicating and Influencing Delivering At Pace Working Together Further Information Find out more about Working for DWP A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. Any move to insert Department name from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website. If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out. In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing stating the job reference number in the subject heading. New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DWPRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the "Reasonable Adjustments" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional. If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. Feedback