Description
Border Force is a law enforcement command within the Home Office. We secure the UK border by carrying out immigration and customs controls for people and goods entering the United Kingdom.
This is a rare opportunity to lead one of Border Force's most influential corporate and operational functions. Operational Assurance provides the Director General and Border Force Board with confidence that risks are being understood and managed appropriately, that operational controls are functioning effectively, and that lessons are translated into meaningful improvements.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead and develop a geographically dispersed Directorate of approximately 100 colleagues, creating a high-performing and inclusive culture.
- Provide assurance to the Director General and Border Force Board on the effectiveness of key controls, organisational performance and risk management arrangements.
- Set the strategic direction for assurance activity across Border Force and ensure a consistent, risk-based approach is embedded throughout the organisation.
- Lead Border Force's second-line assurance function, ensuring assurance findings are evidence-based, proportionate and focused on improving outcomes.
- Oversee the development and effectiveness of first-line assurance arrangements across operational and enabling functions.
- Own and maintain the Border Force Strategic Risk Register on behalf of the Border Force Board.
- Lead Border Force's approach to integrity, ethics and professionalism, promoting the highest standards of conduct and organisational behaviour.
- Oversee the Insider Threat Programme and associated interventions to identify, assess and mitigate corruption and integrity risks.
- Provide leadership for misconduct management, ensuring investigations and casework are managed consistently, fairly and effectively.
- Manage Border Force's relationship with external audit, inspection and scrutiny bodies, ensuring recommendations are addressed and improvements delivered.
- Oversee public correspondence functions, ensuring concerns are handled effectively and lessons are identified and acted upon.
Person Specification:
Essential Criteria:
- Driving organisational improvement through assurance, risk or governance: Using assurance, risk management, inspection, audit, compliance, investigations, governance or related disciplines to identify issues, strengthen controls and improve organisational performance.
- Providing challenge and influencing at senior levels: Building effective relationships and providing confident, evidence-based challenge to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving change across organisational boundaries.
- Leading through sensitive and complex people issues: Leading teams responsible for handling sensitive, confidential or high-profile matters involving integrity, conduct, professional standards, workforce risk or organisational culture.
- Strategic leadership and delivery: Setting direction, prioritising resources and delivering outcomes across a broad portfolio while ensuring value for money and effective management of public resources.
- Communication and judgement: Communicating complex and sensitive issues clearly to diverse audiences and exercising sound judgement in environments where decisions can have significant operational, reputational or organisational consequences.
Benefits:
Alongside your salary of £86,000, Home Office contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%