Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Resettlement Housing and Dispersal Senior Advisor
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Job Summary
The Resettlement Directorate leads the department’s work to support the welcome, resettlement and integration of people seeking safety in the UK through protected routes, including the Homes for Ukraine and the Afghan Resettlement Programme.
Our work requires strong engagement with a range of departments, local and devolved government, civil society, and international partners to ensure we are helping these cohorts to secure appropriate accommodation and access the services they need to integrate into their new communities. We ensure that decision making takes into account community cohesion, housing, homelessness, and other local government considerations.
We are looking for a candidate to lead the operations of the Communities for Afghans scheme. The Communities for Afghans scheme provides grant funding to community groups to resettle Afghan households into their community.
The Role Will Include
- Managing finances and grant funding to local authorities and community organisations.
- Keeping a detailed track of funding and being prepared to report this to senior stakeholders.
- Managing relationships with local authorities.
- Keeping guidance for the scheme up to date.
- Reporting how the scheme is performing compared to its Key Performance Indicators.
The candidate may in future also be required to work on wider aspects of the Communities for Afghans scheme, including account managing the Principal Sponsors and strategic leadership of the scheme. The successful candidate may also be asked to work on wider Afghan Resettlement delivery or wider Asylum and Resettlement delivery.
Job Description
The successful candidate will be leading on operations for the Communities for Afghans scheme, including:
- Making financial payments and managing grant funding.
- Keeping track of payments.
- Financial reporting.
- Monitoring the scheme against the Key Performance Indicators and Grant Funding Agreements.
- Ensuring guidance for the scheme is kept up to date.
- Designing our engagement with local authorities and Strategic Migration Partners, including responding to queries; designing communications to Afghans on the scheme, or may join the scheme.
- The successful candidate may also work on wider delivery of the Afghan Resettlement scheme, or wider work of MHCLG’s Resettlement Directorate in general.
Person specification
The skills and experience the successful candidate will need to demonstrate are:
- Experience of operating complex schemes
- Experience of delivering for resettlement cohorts or other vulnerable cohorts
- A clear understanding of the UK Government’s and MHCLG’s role in resettlement
- Experience of working with Local Authorities and Strategic Migration Partners
- Experience of managing complex finances and keeping track of expenditure
- Confidence in presenting to various audiences, including senior stakeholders and large audiences
Alongside your salary of £44,004, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £12,747 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
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Selection process details
Application and Selection
The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:
Behaviours, Experience
Stage 1: Sift
Experience: (Lead) - In 250 words please demonstrate your experience of delivering for resettlement cohorts. Behaviour: Changing and Improving Behaviour: Working Together Behaviour: Managing a Quality Service
There is a 250-word limit per question.
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Stage 2: Interview
Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Working Together and Managing a Quality Service. Experience: Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.
Sift and Interview Dates
Sifting is envisaged to take place the week commencing 17/08.
Interviews are envisaged to take place the week commencing 31/08 and are currently being held remotely via videocall. This could be subject to change.
Disability Confident Scheme (DCS)
We are a Disability Confident employer.
We apply a fair and proportionate interview process for all candidates. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to progress candidates who apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and meet the required minimum selection criteria.
However, where high application volumes are received, progression to interview may be limited to those who best meet the role criteria. In these circumstances, the benchmark required to proceed to interview may be raised for all candidates.
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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 counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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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) (opens in a new window)
- 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
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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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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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
Name : Nina Harris
Email : nina.harris@communities.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Email : recruitment@communities.gov.uk
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