Deployment Manager
| Posting date: | 01 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,525 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 September 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 421676/1 |
Summary
Do you have the skills to manage resources effectively, solve operational challenges, and drive continuous improvement across teams?
Have you successfully developed high-performing teams and collaborated with internal and external partners to achieve organisational goals?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- Make roads safer
- Improve services for our customers
- Make road transport greener and healthier
- Harness the potential of technology and data
- Grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.
We’re looking for a dynamic leader to head our Deployment team and ensure the effective delivery of high-quality, cost-efficient driving test services across the UK. You’ll play a key role in developing a high-performing team, allocating resources, and supporting national service targets. As part of the wider DVSA leadership group, you’ll collaborate across teams and partners to drive continuous improvement and meet future demands. If you're passionate about public service and operational excellence, we want to hear from you.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Execute management responsibilities effectively and in line with DVSA policies and processes, planning and coordinating tasks and activities and taking responsibility for ensuring objectives are delivered
- Effectively allocate examiner staff to meet DVSA service level agreements in accordance with the Business Plan Targets
- Identify issues and make suggestions to improve business rules for examining staff
- Deal with issues escalated through your team regarding resourcing issues
- Contribute to the continual improvement of working practices as part of DVSA’s Business Excellence model
- Be receptive to and develop new ideas and initiatives ensuring key messages are cascaded to your team in a timely manner
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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