Inspection Selection Team Manager
| Posting date: | 06 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,136 to £34,546 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 March 2024 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 343152/4 |
Summary
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), delivering over £2 billion in payments to farmers, traders and landowners each year.
We are an Operational Delivery Profession organisation, with the majority of our people delivering day to day services to our customers and stakeholders.
We make excellent delivery happen, empowering agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live. We manage over 40 schemes, and also make payments on behalf of Natural England, to ensure we have a healthy rural economy, strong and sustainable rural communities, and to protect and enhance the natural environment.
Our vision is to create a great place for people living in this country. We have developed a set of four strategic objectives covering our policy outcomes and corporate objectives. These objectives help us to deliver our ambitious vision to build our green and healthy future and provide a framework for all of the important work that we carry out.
Further information can be found on the Rural Payments Agency website Rural Payments Agency - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
With EU exit and the move through Agricultural Transition, the Rural Payments Agency is using the opportunity to develop a new approach to farming and land management. The use of payments via agri environment schemes to farmers and land managers for environmental benefits, allows RPA to work with customers to drive the required outcomes in Defra’s 25-year strategic plan.
The Regulatory and Advice Service (RAS) within RPA is a team of 250 people including Field Officers, Inspection Support teams and Statistical and Analytical teams. Between them, these teams deliver over 6500 visits a year, ensuring the public money being paid to support environmental outcomes is used effectively, providing support for customers, through advice and guidance and playing a key role in delivery of the environmental ambitions set out in Defra’s 25-year plan.
As part of RPA’s wider ambitions, the team is undergoing a transformational change from an historic model of specific inspection activity, to one that offers an intelligence-driven approach (through the use of data such as geospatial satellite information, visit data and other intelligence, such as climate and environmental activity) to identify and pre-emptively address risks to environmental outcomes, supporting farmers and land managers in meeting these and ensuring public money is used to maximise benefits to the environment and agricultural communities.
As the Selection Manager you will be instrumental in establishing our new approach. You will provide support to the delivery of site visits and customer interactions through writing selection strategies, to meet regulatory and government counter fraud requirements, ensuring rules are correctly and consistently applied and selections are fit for purpose.
This will be done by:
- Managing selections for various rural schemes to ensure compliance with legislation and to meet RPA and Defra goals.
- Building excellent working relations with key stakeholders, both within RPA and the wider Defra family, including policy, operational and intelligence teams.
- Utilising strong understanding of selection criteria, both under EU and Domestic rules to work proactively, to identify selection concerns and make robust and insightful recommendations on future selection approaches.
- Consulting with stakeholders to determine selection approaches and writing strategy documents to reflect the agreement.
- Managing a team to support them in evaluating significant amounts of data to ensure selections are appropriate and key deadlines are met.
- Supporting Compliance colleagues in internal and external audit processes.
- Participating and leading in case conferences.
- Creating a flexible and robust team capable of delivering selections by managing an effective training and upskilling programme.
- Line management of Executive Officer (EO) colleagues using the People Performance Framework.