Planning Delivery Officer

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DWP’s Finance Group comprises the following directorates, Central Analysis and Science Directorate, Contract Management and Partner Delivery, Commercial Directorate, Payments, Systems and Financial Control, Security and Data Protection, Strategic Finance and Resilience and Risk.

The Strategic Finance directorate more broadly is responsible for leading DWP’s financial strategy and fiscal events; developing the outcome delivery plan and measure performance against it; support the Finance DG, the finance profession and finance group. We help shape the future of the Department and its service to customers by leading on DWP’s financial strategy, providing expert strategic finance advice and analysis to internal and external stakeholders.

This includes delivery of fiscal events and spending reviews, as well as overall planning and business support for Finance Group.

The Departmental Planning and Performance team sit in the Strategic Finance Directorate and are directly responsible for coordinating DWP’s Departmental Plan and assessing its deliverability and leading on the Executive Team’s performance data reporting.

Working with the Senior Managers within the Departmental Planning and Performance team, the main elements of this role will include (but are not limited to):

• Supporting the maintenance and updating of the department-wide performance dashboard including commissioning data, managing the datastore, and managing the comments tracker. You will act as the conduit between report authors in the team and Digital developers to deliver improvements on our products.
• Supporting the delivery of performance reporting and the effective use of resources by managing the team plan, co-ordinating the dashboard production timeline, and booking senior leaders’ quality assurance slots.
• Supporting assessments of the deliverability of department-wide activities through the annual planning cycle and at key fiscal/policy change events including tracking, chasing and aggregating deliverability assessment returns.
• Supporting the development of the Departmental Plan through project co-ordination, assimilation of materials and stakeholder management and booking seniors’ quality assurance slots.
• Leading on aspects of corporate team planning and updating and monitoring of healthy team indicators, and timeline of activities.
• Working with the wider DPP team to strengthen and build effective mechanisms for joining up work across all branches of DPP.
• Supporting DPP communications work, ensuring the wider Department understands the Departmental Plan and role of DPP team through updating materials, writing and giving presentations.
• Support the design and drafting of compelling and accurate products that are easily understood, using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, in support of the team and for senior stakeholders including the Executive Team (ET). Assisting with the ongoing management and input to DPP’s programme of work will also at times include administrative work such as setting up meetings, collating agendas, papers and minutes.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.

This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.

This role can only be delivered from the UK.

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