Rural Payments Agency (RPA) Chief Executive
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £120,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Circa £120,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2025 |
| Location: | Crewe |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405616/3 |
Summary
Leadership and strategic vision
- Be a credible, collaborative and effective leader and build a high performing, trusting and trusted executive team to execute the RPA strategy in partnership with policy and delivery teams across Defra group
- Develop the vision and transform the operating model and organisational design of the organisation to collaborate with colleagues, adapt to the changing policy and delivery context and priorities, deliver more efficiently and continuously improve services and outcomes
- Help the organisation build and deploy the resources, skills and capability to enable it to deliver its aims and objectives.
- Be an inspirational and inclusive leader to RPA’s 2500 people, creating a culture which embodies the VERITAS values (Visible, Engaging, Respectful, Inclusive, Trusted, Accountable and Supportive).
Partnership working and stakeholder engagement
- Build strong, collaborative and open partnerships across Defra and with ministers, as well as with external stakeholders from a range of organisations
- Represent the organisation to a complex and varied customer and stakeholder group, promote a wide understanding of the work that RPA does and the role that it plays, and respond to learning and insight
Operational delivery and transformation
- Ensure efficient and effective delivery of the planned programme of grants, schemes and services for farmers, in line with policy priorities and intent set by Ministers and in partnership with colleagues across Defra
- Lead the transformational change required to improve customers’ experience, efficiency and outcomes
- Embed new technology, data, digital services and ways of working, in partnership with the Farming and countryside Programme and Defra's Digital, Data and Technology teams, and leverage them to support wider transformation, including:
o improving operational performance through data insights, technology and improved capability
o improving customer experience of RPA services
o reducing fraud, error and any other forms of failure or waste
o reducing the cost-to-serve of grant schemes and other RPA services
- Manage risks within the policy and risk appetite set by the core Department.
Financial Management
- Take personal responsibility as the CEO and accounting officer for financial probity, regularity and value for money of RPA expenditure
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