Contract type: Permanent

Working Pattern: This post is available on a Full Time, Part Time and Job Share basis. (Flexible working hours can be accommodated)

Location: London,Norwich,Darlington

Salary: London: £36,450 - £42,000 / National: £33,450 - £39,000

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, HM Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK!

About the Team

The Government Finance Function (GFF) ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government – delivering value for money, strengthening public trust. We are comprised of over 8,500 FTE spread across 39 Government organisations.

Our People and Capability team works towards developing a high performing, capable and diverse Function for the future, with great people in the right roles with the right skills now and in the future.

About the Role

By joining us as our Career Development Manager, you will work to develop professional capability for the Government Finance Function. This includes a high quality, evidenced based, diverse and value for money professional skills offer for the GFF and developing our Finance Career Framework. This ensures staff working across Government Finance have clearly defined roles to work in, and access to exciting and multifaceted career pathways across government.

We are offering 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.

Key accountabilities

Coordinating development and delivery of the Finance Fast Stream offer, ensuring and the offer is designed to support the individual learning pathways for each Fast streamer, some 200+ individuals across the function.
Developing the Apprenticeship offer for the function, working with broad networks, to develop a streamlined, professional, accessible offer linking to functional workforce requirements, ensuring best value for the function and optimum efficiency.
Building and managing relationships with the Accountancy Institutes and other partners to support professional development and training of staff across the GFF.
Project management of the Career Framework and Finance Professional Development programmes, ensuring target achievements are met and any emerging risks are understood and managed, communication and commissions are completed to time.
Supporting delivery and roll out of the Skills Capture Tool supporting monthly reporting of take up across the function, reviewing insight and highlights to understand skills needs across the function and reporting to Departments.
Finance Career stories/pathways - lead work to work to develop, arrange, schedule a programme of colleague stories from across the function to promote development, use of CF, linking to L&D interventions, promoting diverse and engaging stories.

For a full list of accountabilities, please follow the apply link.

About you

We are looking for someone who can communicate with purpose, clarity, integrity and enthusiasm, as well as skilled at forming positive working relationships, with a focus on creating and sharing information, resources, and support as a team. Ideally, you’ll be curious and seek out opportunities to create effective change and suggest innovative ideas for enhancement. Lastly, if you are Finance qualified or part-qualified (CCAB or CIMA), have experience working across the finance function with good understanding of finance activity and roles, we’d love to hear from you!

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours).
Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages.
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
Access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.
A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

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