Performance Reporting Team Leader
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,557 to £66,058 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Civil servants applying on promotion will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or within 10% of existing salary. External recruits will start on the band minimum. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 408545/1 |
Summary
This is an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives. Finance Group sits at the heart of the department, influencing and shaping the policy and delivery of our front-line services. This role sits in performance reporting branch and the post holder will be joining an energetic, vibrant team, which plays a vital role in gathering, interrogating and presenting intelligence and data to understand and assess performance against the departmental plan. You will expertly manage your work, and your teams to ensure objectives are met.
You will draw on a range of knowledge and experience to lead performance reporting and help to drive through on-going evolution of the department’s performance dashboard to reflect the priorities of the Government and Department. This work will include providing assurance and active constructive challenge to information provided and being pro-active in identifying how best to evolve the dashboard and ensuring proposed changes land. This will include two core strands:
leading a team to collect, analyse and, if required, challenge, data, draft literate and compelling narratives and producing a performance dashboard for the department’s most senior leaders. You will also deliver associated briefings and ad-hoc products as required.support work across the branch and wider department (including Implementation Unit and Outcome Boards) to update the dashboard, identify where new measures need to be added, old ones removed or updated and pro-actively drive changes forward. This will require collaboration with stakeholders at working and senior level.
The main elements of this role will include the following:
- Leading and managing key elements of the quarterly performance dashboard including analysing data, challenging where applicable, drafting content and overseeing drafting of content, engaging with key stakeholders, and pro-actively managing the clearance process for directors and directors general.
- Own discrete elements of performance areas, building expertise and a wide network to maintain and expand understanding and effectively report against these.
- Support the production of accompanying reports and briefings for the quarterly dashboard, including the "view from planning” document which sets out the team’s assessment of performance each quarter, briefing for the Executive Team and background briefing for the Director and Deputy Director.
- Support work across the team to drive forward the evolution of the dashboard. Pro-actively identifying areas where the dashboard can be strengthened or updated and working closely with key stakeholders in the Implementation Unit and on Outcome Boards to determine relevant metrics to include within the dashboard and ensure standards, targets and trajectories, as applicable, are in place.
- Line management responsibility.
Hybrid working
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.
This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.
This role can only be delivered from the UK.
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