Job details

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment.
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants.
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity.

• Working and engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, managing expectations and conflicting demands.
• Coordinating and facilitating the delivery of Supplier meetings liaising with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
• Assisting team members on project support activities including document creation and management.
• Provide continuous support to the improvement of processes and ways of working.
• Collating, analysing, and presenting a variety of data sources to a variety of stakeholders and supporting with team reporting requirements.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Programme or Project Management methodologies and delivery skills (in any environment) to achieve results.
• Good stakeholder management.
• Ability to pay attention to detail and improve processes and ways of working, using analytical thinking.
• Operating with autonomy, whilst working flexibly with colleagues in your own and various external teams
• Microsoft with the ability to collate, analyse and present data effectively.
• Governance, assurance, requirements management and change control in a project or programme environment.
• Creating and managing documentation and reports for projects, including developing presentations for briefings / meetings.
• Experience if working in supporting IT projects

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with luciana-auras.popescu@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

DWP  is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

 If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.