Senior Planning and Reporting Officer

Posting date:	22 July 2025
Salary:	£41,614 to £45,081 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 August 2025
Location:	Blackpool
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	416938/2

Summary

For jobs located in Wales, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the government’s largest public service departments with a sizeable annual budget, serving over 20 million citizens.

The estate spans 1.4 million square metres across 800+ sites and supports around 78,000 colleagues.

Our vision includes DWP colleagues, supply chain, partners and, most fundamentally, the customers the Department exists to serve. They are the reason for our existence.​

We are responsible for the day-to-day operation of our vast Estate by managing a private sector supply chain that delivers essential services such as Security Guarding, Maintenance, Property and Leasehold Management, Construction, Cleaning and Facilities Management.

DWP Estates is not just about maintaining buildings - it’s about transformation. Our strategic goals include:

• Transitioning to a smaller, more affordable, and adaptable estate to meet future needs
• Investing in infrastructure through planned replacement works
• Embedding sustainability in line with Government Greening Commitments (GGCs)
• Delivering cost-effective services while maintaining high standards
• Creating a professional, best-in-class working culture across the Government Property profession

Our Estates strategy ambitions have been refreshed to take us through to 2030:

• OPTIMISE: Continue to transition to a more affordable and adaptable DWP estate that creates productive environments

• INVEST: Investment in an improved environment that better meets the needs of customers and colleagues and minimises service disruption

• SUPPORT the drive for sustainability throughout DWP

• DELIVER: Expertly deliver improving, cost-effective services for DWP

• THRIVE: Continue to develop a working culture for DWP Estates that is best in class across government

There is no better time to join the award winning DWP Estates team.

This role sits in This role sits in the Estates Directorate within the Strategic Alignment and Business Oversight Team. 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.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Reporting and Planning Officer to join the Strategic Alignment and Business Oversight (SABO) team who will thrive in a busy and complex environment. The SABO team is a key function within the wider estates, we support SLT to develop and implement the strategy. You will play a pivotal role in supporting the team to report progress toward the strategic ambitions, utilising data to inform a risk based approach. Key Accountabilities Controls and Reporting– Collate pertinent data from a range of different stakeholders through all levels of DWP. Presenting the data in a timely and accurate fashion, ensuring a golden thread of connectivity between overarching DWP Estates Strategy and individual team plans. Analysis – critically evaluate the data including the interpretation based on established criteria and, delving deeper and making judgements based on this evidence. Document and Information Management– Manage and lead the SABO team in their Document Controller and admin duties, with a view to standardising and maintaining filing structures. Specialist Support– Maintain an existing Project Risk Register activity. Support the SABO Team in their management and monitoring of risk actions with respective risk owners. Stakeholder Management – Develop a stakeholder framework providing a structured approach to identify, analyse and manage relationships with individuals and/or groups that will be essential to the development of reports. Assurance– the Senior planning and reporting officer will organise and chair assurance meetings and provide workstreams leads with required reporting, including gap analysis. Team Member - the Senior planning and reporting officer will be flexible in their approach supporting the overall team, providing appropriate challenge where appropriate. The successful candidate will be able to integrate into a geographically dispersed Programme team, working across boundaries and provide expertise, leadership and motivation to drive forward the Programme’s strategic aims. Reporting directly to one of the SABO Strategy Leads, you will be responsible for regular reports, providing the senior management team with data that provides progress against overall plans. A key element of the data capture will be via stakeholder engagement, maintaining these relationships is essential. Lead on the development and updating of monthly performance and planning dashboards and reports. These are reportable and accountable to both Senior and Functional Leadership Team governance forums Leading on regular reporting for Estates In-Year and Departmental Strategic Plans, working in collaboration with Estates and wider departmental stakeholders to ensure that the right information is available at the right time to effectively monitor delivery and progress. Working in collaboration with wider Estates plan and task owners to understand where performance may be at risk. Drive continuous improvement and iteration of business planning and reporting.

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