HM Land Registry
Programme Director – Local Land Charges
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Job Summary
Millions of people and businesses rely on HM Land Registry every year for guaranteed and trusted information on property ownership which covers properties worth around £8 trillion. Understanding and protecting the nation’s land ownership, and its potential use and value, is vital to a successful economy and a sustainable future.
The Local Land Charges programme is driving the large-scale transformation of local authorities’ data, digitising Local Land Charges information to create a single national digital register and make the home buying and selling process more efficient.
With the programme well established, the next phase will focus on delivering the remaining authorities while building on the data capability already created and exploring how AI and emerging technology can be used at scale to process, interpret and unlock greater value from this and other similar data.
Job Description
As programme director for our multi-award-winning Local Land Charges initiative, you will have overall responsibility for managing the roadmap, delivery and risk management, leading a large in-house team and managing key commercial relationships, including the programme delivery partner and Local Authority IT suppliers. You will work closely with local and central government stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and help shape the next phase of digital and data transformation.
As Our Programme Director, You Will Be Responsible For:
- Provide strategic leadership across the full programme lifecycle, overseeing the roadmap, delivery, implementation, governance, risks, resources and benefits realisation, ensuring the Local Land Charges programme remains aligned with HM Land Registry’s strategic priorities.
- Lead a geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary team of 400+ colleagues, including the senior programme team, creating a high-performing, engaged and supportive environment that encourages innovation, professional development and continuous improvement.
- Build and maintain strong senior stakeholder relationships across HM Land Registry, including Executive and Non-Executive Board members and key internal teams, while developing strategic partnerships with other government departments and 300+ local authorities to support successful programme delivery and wider transformation across the property sector.
- Lead the transition of the programme team, ensuring HMLR staff are effectively supported through changes to ways of working, while maintaining strong communication and engagement across the programme. Work closely with local authorities, technology suppliers and delivery partners to ensure operational readiness and successful completion of the programme.
- Lead commercial and financial management of the programme, overseeing budgets, suppliers, business cases, investment decisions and value for money, while managing key strategic delivery risks and ensuring resources and capability are secured at the appropriate stages.
- Contribute at Executive level to the wider transformation agenda, supporting Executive Committees and the Land Registry Board with effective programme governance, strategic decision-making and oversight, while identifying opportunities to build on the programme’s data transformation capability and deliver further economic benefits.
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Person Specification
To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.
Essential Technical Skills And Qualifications:
- Must hold or be willing to work towards Major Projects Leadership Academy qualification.
- Project Leaders Programme, MSP Practitioner, or equivalent qualification or experience.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrable experience and associated evidence successfully leading and managing high value, high profile, complex and multifaceted programmes and projects.
- Significant experience as a proactive and visible driving force behind transformational change, including customer and workforce transformation.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, with experience of cultivating successful relationships with external suppliers to drive value for money and flexibility
- Evidence of building strong business cases to secure resources and alignment of sponsorship from different parties
- Able to shape the business direction and strategy through anticipating and identifying trends and shifts in relevant technological, political, economic, social, and/or environmental developments.
- Significant leadership experience, including at executive board level, ideally in a heavily unionised environment.
Desirable Experience:
- Previous experience at programme director and executive level
- Data transformation experience
- Knowledge and understanding of central and local government environments
Please note that you will not be assessed against the desirable criteria during the recruitment process.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
Salary
Remuneration for this role is expected to be up to £100k per annum.
For existing civil servants, the usual policy on level transfer and promotion will apply. If appointed on promotion, you will be appointed to the salary band minimum for SCSPB1 – Director, or receive a 10% uplift on your existing salary, whichever is greater. Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing salary. Standard pay rules apply for existing civil servants.
Please note that, if successful, any existing specialist allowances you currently receive will not automatically transfer to or be retained in this role.
Application Process
To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process through our chosen executive search provider, Global Resourcing, accessed via the following email: HMLR-PDLC@global-resourcing.com
Once you have emailed the above address, you will receive a reply containing a link to a microsite and full instructions on how to submit your application. You will also have the opportunity to book a briefing call to learn more about the role and ask any questions you may have.
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Contact Information
Should you like to discuss the role in more detail before submitting an application, please contact Bev Evans by emailing HMLR-PDLC@global-resourcing.com or by calling 020 8253 1806.
Diversity and Inclusion
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. DCS applicants who meet the minimum criteria at shortlisting may be invited to attend an interview.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code 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.
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.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality Requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Contact Point for Applicants
Job Contact:
- Name: Bev Evans
- Email: HMLR-PDLC@global-resourcing.com
- Telephone: 020 8253 1806
Recruitment Team
Further Information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint
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