Public Appointments Campaign Manager
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,858 to £38,272 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £32,858 - £34,586 London: £36,583 - £38,272 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2024 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 348645/3 |
Summary
Can you build solid working relationships with internal and high-profile external stakeholders?
The Department for Business and Trade is looking to recruit a new Public Appointments Campaign Manager. You will have the opportunity to work in a vital area of government, working closely with colleagues from the Cabinet Office and No10.
It is vital that our public bodies are led by strong, effective, and diverse boards which reflect the societies they serve. As a team, we provide a specialised appointment and policy function, ensuring that Ministers are able to appoint the best possible talent to the boards of our public bodies.
Our public bodies deliver vital functions across our sectors. You will be supporting appointments to an exciting variety of boards, such as the Competition and Markets Authority, Low Pay Commission, and the Financial Reporting Council.
No prior knowledge of business or trade sectors is required, only a desire to learn about these organisations and work closely with policy teams to deliver best-practice appointments to these boards.
Public Appointments follow the process set out by the Governance Code for Public Appointments - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and the process is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
This is a varied and interesting role focused on strong customer care and delivery, with senior engagement with teams throughout the Department. You will have responsibility for project managing recruitment campaigns from start to finish. You will also have opportunity to work on special team projects such as increasing diversity of applicants, data analysis, and the talent pipeline of appointees. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative wider team helping to drive forward the Department's strategic priorities.
If you’re seeking interesting and developmental work at the heart of government, this role offers a unique opportunity to work in a high profile, focused and supportive team. This role is varied and provides fantastic opportunities to develop new, or strengthen existing skills, and engage with a varied stakeholder network. Responsibilities include:
Stakeholder management
Working across the department's range of public bodies, you will regularly engage with senior stakeholders including public bodies Chairs and Chief Executives, No10 and the Cabinet Office. The role requires strategic and political awareness, and strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to deliver difficult messages. Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, are essential.
Campaign and programme management work
The end-to-end process of planning and appointing to these roles is called a 'campaign'. All campaign work requires project management, strategic thinking, excellent drafting and a strong customer/delivery ethos. You will manage high profile public appointment recruitment campaigns, applying and interpreting the Governance Code guidance, from the planning stages to Ministerial agreement of appointees.
You will navigate complex and at times delicately balanced stakeholder relationships, manage competing priorities, work collaboratively and to tight deadlines.
Diversity and Candidate Search
You will support and develop our diversity and candidate talent searching, to expand the talent pipeline in our sectors and devise and deliver outreach strategies. Identification of strong and diverse potential candidates is an important and growing area of our work and we are keen to develop our diversity strategy to ensure our boards fully reflect society.