Chief Operating Officer, GPA

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Reference number

278030

Salary

£140,000 Existing Civil Servants will be appointed in line with the Civil Service pay rules in place on the date of their appointment.

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

GPA - Chief Operating Office

Type of role

Property
Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

1

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham

About the job

Job summary

The Government Property Agency (GPA) oversees the Government's office and warehouse portfolios, delivering property strategies and solutions to meet the needs of the Government as a whole and of individual departments. We are a service business that exists to support our client departments and their people. Working in partnership with our clients, we help them shape their location and workforce strategies and provide the property support they need to deliver their business objectives.

In this role as the Chief Operating Officer (COO), you will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer, you will plan and oversee the operations of the GPA, a property business, managing performance and risk to ensure that it delivers on its strategy and for its clients. As COO you will also lead the GPA's enabling functions, designing and implementing excellent corporate services across GPA to support a growing property business at the centre of delivering government priorities

Job description

Key Responsibilities include:

• As a member of the GPA Executive Committee (ExCo), participate in the collective leadership of the GPA developing GPA business strategies, plans and policies to deliver on short-term and long-term objectives;
• Lead on designing and implementing policies that promote GPA's vision and culture as a leading public sector property business;
• Lead on the development and presentation of GPA's business plans, annual reports, and Spending Review bids, working closely with the Finance Director on financial details;
• Oversee the operations of the GPA, and lead on evaluating its performance by analysing and interpreting data, and comparing with property industry benchmarks

For more information and further key responsibilities please see the attached candidate pack

Person specification

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Ability to develop strategies at organisational level and translate them into pragmatic service implementation with measurable outcomes linked specifically to customer needs;
• Able to communicate effectively at all levels in an organisation, including at the most senior level, and able to build effective relationships with a wide ranging group of stakeholders;
• Experience in harnessing and analysing data at strategic and tactical levels, with an ability to bring to bear significant commercial acumen to support decision making;
• Strong and inspiring leader with a track record of delivering quality corporate services through effective team leadership, with experience of developing capability and creating high performance;
• Experience of managing and integrating corporate services in a complex organisation of a scale relevant to the role in GPA and in a property related context and;
• Level 7 accreditation (chartered member) in an area relevant to GPA or a commitment to work towards this e.g. chartered surveyor, chartered engineer, chartered accountant

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Selection process details

Applications Closing: 12:00 (noon) on Thursday 20th April 2023

Shortlisting: W/C 1st May 2023

Staff Engagement Exercise: W/C 22nd May 2023

Interviews: W/C 5th June 2023

You should apply by sending a CV to gpacoo@miles-advisory.com. You will then be asked to complete a statement of suitability template and diversity monitoring form, please see the candidate pack for further details

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : June Wang Email : June.wang@miles-advisory.com

Recruitment team :

Email : June.wang@miles-advisory.com