Delivery & Assurance Lead; Professionalism) Band B

Delivery & Assurance Lead (Professionalism) Band B

Vacancy Reference Number

22645

Number of Vacancies 1

Location Westminster

Building NEW SCOTLAND YARD

Band Band B

Part/Full Time Full Time

36 hours per week

Type of Contract Permanent

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Job Title: Delivery & Assurance Lead (Professionalism) Band B

Salary: The starting salary is £62,310, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.

The salary is broken down as £59,301 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £72,254. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Westminster, New Scotland Yard and other locations across the Met with a Professionalism presence

Job description:

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced delivery or assurance professional to join the Met’s Strategy, Policy, and Performance Unit (SPPU) within Professionalism. The Delivery and Assurance lead translates organisational priorities into effective business planning, performance, risk and assurance across the Professionalism Directorate’. The role provides strategic leadership to the delivery and assurance team and is a rare and exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the Metropolitan Police, developing your operational and strategic insight into misconduct, vetting and wider police integrity matters, and seeing ambition through to delivery.

The post holder is expected to grasp complex issues quickly and incorporate quantitative and qualitative analytical insight to inform decision-making, often involving oral and written advice to senior police officers and staff in the Met, and to senior decision-makers in other organisations.

You will be key to unblocking difficult delivery issues, and supporting the team, and our senior leaders in working through them. You will engage directly with the most senior leaders in the Met, including the Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, and their Executive Board colleagues.

This role will be based in the Met’s Professionalism Directorate but will also require you to work closely with and alongside other internal teams and operational policing colleagues to help implement and monitor significant change across the Business Group and organisation – building an understanding of the Met and how it works will be critical to helping to reform it.

The Met’s Professionalism Strategy, Policy and Performance Unit has been established to support the Professionalism Chief Officer Group deliver integrity, conduct and cultural reform and drive high professional standards across the organisation, ultimately answering to Assistant Commissioner Rachel Williams. The team are responsible for driving a range of strategic work streams and projects that support the functioning of a large operational Business Group and contribute to Met’s mission of more trust, less crime and high standards.

The Met is a fascinating place to work, supporting our officers and staff to keep Londoners safe, and our unit has an important role to play in doing just that.

On a day-day basis the post holder will be responsible for three broad areas:

• Strategic planning and governance:
  You will lead the full business planning cycle for the Professionalism Business Group, ensuring all plans are coherent, deliverable and aligned to corporate priorities. Working closely with operational experts, you will draft and maintain key strategies and implementation plans, including responding to internal and external audits and inspections, while ensuring robust governance through clear decision routes, well-structured records, and auditable accountability.

• Delivery and performance oversight:
  You will oversee delivery of key priorities and services across the Professionalism portfolio, working…