Strategic Projects and Cross-functional lead

Posting date:	14 May 2026
Salary:	£41,565 to £50,608 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	25 May 2026
Location:	M2 3AW
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	461570/1

Summary

The Grants, Risk, Assurance and Fraud team - or GRAFT - is a small, diverse and friendly team of experts that sits within the Finance Directorate in DCMS and was created to provide advice and guidance to ensure the Department and its public bodies spend money and manage their risks wisely and to maximise public outcomes.

We work across the organisation and our public bodies, supporting a variety of policy and project areas from sporting events to heritage projects through to our charities sector.

We love innovation and new ideas. It is team that welcomes challenge and growth.

Come and make a difference to the things you love.

The GRAFT team is shifting its own ways of working to help the department deliver so this is recruitment for a new role. We are moving from having a single focus on one of the functional areas we cover, towards all GRAFT team members a developing their knowledge and skills in each other’s areas. This will support us to engage with policy teams even earlier and more robustly, skilfully spotting both opportunities and potential issues across the team’s range of functions. You will have a specific focus on supporting the Counter fraud lead in strengthening our identification and reporting of fraud and error across DCMS and its public bodies. This means the successful applicant could have existing expertise in any one of grants, risk, assurance, or counter fraud (we are recruiting separately for data protection) - or in more than one of them. We will support you to further develop that core expertise alongside ensuring you grow knowledge and skills in each of the other areas.

In addition, the post holder will work directly with the DDs (job share) to undertake strategic projects beyond GRAFT, these could encompass the finance directorate as a whole or indeed the wider Corporate Services Group in DCMS. They will need the ability to join the dots between different priorities, and to rapidly develop trusting relationships and form recommendations. Overall this means the role offers a real breadth of experience and exposure which is unusual in central government.

Key responsibilities are

Identifying and working with the DDs and as required wider Finance Directorate on strategic projects. Some examples include leading on the development of Finance Strategy including driving implementation of strategic action and risk

Undertaking business analysis work, identifying business needs, determining solutions, and driving organisational change to deliver value.

Providing risk based support and guidance in the GRAFT area to policies team to design and deliver projects and programme across the DCMS portfolio

Supporting the Counter Fraud functional lead

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