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Head of Product and Strategy

Posting date:	14 March 2025
Salary:	£67,126 to £87,521 per year
Additional salary information:	National - £67,126 - £79,769 London - £71,370 - £87,521 The base salary of this grade is £71,370 for London and £67,126 for other locations. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance. Offers above the band minimum are subject
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 March 2025
Location:	London
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	395097/2

Summary

The Public Sector Reform Test, Learn and Grow (PSR TL&G) team is at the heart of the UK government’s initiative to drive innovation and reform in public service delivery. With the £100 million PSR Innovation Fund, our team collaborates with local authorities and government departments across the United Kingdom and with the Devolved Governments to design, test, and grow innovative solutions that enhance public service outcomes. By employing a "Test & Learn" approach, we focus on creating evidence-based improvements while relieving pressures on public services. Our work involves piloting foundational programmes and place-based initiatives to accelerate mission delivery, support preventative measures, and foster a collaborative environment that encourages continuous improvement and innovation in public services.

A secondment with HMG offers a unique opportunity to work temporarily within the Civil Service, where you will remain an employee of your current organisation. This opportunity will allow you to develop some unique skills, but bring in specific knowledge and expertise, and work on projects that aim to deliver better public services for UK citizens. It is an immersive experience, providing you with new perspectives and the chance to contribute to significant and meaningful work. If you have confirmed with your employer that you are eligible for a secondment you'll be presented with a question in relation to this on your application form.

As Head of Product and Strategy you will work across our “Pioneers”—place-based projects with public sector partners to prototype solutions and policies aligned to government missions and public service reform priorities. You’ll ensure the effective end to end delivery of Pioneers and support projects leads in each Pioneer team with coaching and advice, ensuring we deliver innovations and learnings that are aligned to government priorities. Working across the TL&G team you’ll join up work across the Pioneers with our other workstreams and partnership functions.

This role is mapped to the Head of Product role in the Government Digital and Data framework. We’re looking for someone who can bring end-to-end strategic product management skills to a policy environment and is excited about working on the ground alongside place-based partners.

This role will require travel within the UK to work closely with local partners.

Responsibilities You will: contribute to strategic delivery and join up of our Pioneers, ensuring our work drives impact and outcomes aligned with government missions and public service reform priorities be responsible for overall quality and outcome of Pioneers, ensuring they focus on strategic priorities for government, produce good evidence and clear, actionable strategies for learning, and can scale where applicable, both locally and nationally be responsible for recommending which Pioneers to scale, and develop scaling or replication strategies (with associated evaluation plans) provide ongoing direction and leadership for multi-disciplinary teams in running, supporting and continuously improving Pioneers, so that they are evidence-based while working toward measurable objectives and data driven outcomes provide ongoing direction and leadership for multi-disciplinary teams in running, supporting and continuously improving Pioneers, helping make choices and tradeoffs between methods and level of rigour, so that Pioneers progress at pace, are evidence-based, and work toward measurable objectives and data driven outcomes support the Director of Public Service Reform (Place, Design and Innovation) and their leadership team in the implementation of their vision for the programme develop and drive a culture of test and learn across all teams, balancing experimentation with evaluation and fast-paced delivery thrive using agile methods and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams work closely with the Head of Delivery and Operations on planning and risk management support a collaborative, inclusive and high-challenge / high-support team environment and culture, that values learning and wellbeing A virtual drop in session will be held to explain more about the Public Sector Reform Test, Learn and Grow programme and secondments. Please see the meeting instructions below. 14th March between 1500-1530 Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/dyi-hnni-cmw Or dial: ‪(GB) +44 20 3937 3318‬ PIN: ‪799 311 036‬#

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