Planning and Performance Manager
| Posting date: | 08 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 January 2026 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 442283/2 |
Summary
Do you excel at working collaboratively, influencing senior leaders and leading teams to deliver high-quality, customer-focused results?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
We’re seeking a Planning and Performance Manager to lead on shaping and monitoring our corporate plans, strategic deliverables, and performance reporting. You’ll manage key tools like the Strategic Tracker, ensure high-quality reporting for senior boards, and collaborate with stakeholders to support business change. This is a pivotal role for someone who thrives on detail, enjoys influencing outcomes, and wants to make a real impact on organisational success.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!
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Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
• Ensure that the directorate plans align with the strategic direction of the agency, any relevant Government Reviews and consultations and DVSA business plan requirements.
• Work with directorate planners and service owners to review current and future content and delivery of plans.
• Work with directorate planners and service owners to prioritise key deliverables for current and future years ensuring that the resource dependencies are identified.
• Work with directors, senior managers and planners to prioritise and agree directorate plan content.
• Work with the communications team to ensure timely and appropriate publication of plans.
• Support the measure design and development process as appropriate, particularly with respect to strategic plans and vision.
• Design and develop the Corporate, Directorate and operational performance framework, targets and measures.
• Ensure effective performance reporting is available to Senior managers, including the Executive committee and DfT, ensuring that the content and level of detail is appropriate to the audience and has appropriate sign off.
• Lead the continuous review of performance reporting to improve reporting processes and products to ensure efficiency,
For further information on the role, please read the attached 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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