To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following, via the Civil Service Jobs portal, which will assessed against the essential criteria for the role:
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A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.
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A Statement of Suitability explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role.
For the shortlist, we will select applicants who demonstrate the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application and how this meets the essential requirements. Following the shortlist there are no further pass/fail assessment stages and all candidates shortlisted will be invited to the final interview stage.
Should you encounter any issues with your online application please get in touch with: [email protected]
Shortlist
The panel will assess your application to select those demonstrating the best fit with the role by considering the evidence you have provided against the criteria set out in the essential requirements section of this pack. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Feedback
Following interview, all shortlisted candidates will receive their outcome along with some short written feedback on performance at interview.
Please note you will only receive feedback if you complete the interview stage.
Assessment
If shortlisted, you will be invited to undertake an assessment as part of this recruitment prior to a final interview panel:
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A staff engagement exercise: a structured exercise which involves shortlisted candidates facilitating a discussion with a selection of staff from the Department on a given topic.
The assessments will be conducted virtually. The staff engagement exercise will take place remotely via Google Meet.
These assessments will not result in a pass or fail decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panels decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview.
If you are shortlisted, you will also be offered an informal conversation with Emma Floyd, ahead of the final panel interview. This does not form part of the assessment process and is merely an opportunity for you to find out more about the role.
Interview
The interview process will assess behaviours and experience and will include a presentation. The topic will be sent in advance of your interview. You will not be required to use visual aids.
The behaviours to be tested at interview are:
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Leadership
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Making Effective Decisions
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Working Together
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Seeing the Big Picture
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Changing and Improving
Your interview will take place, in person, at DCMS London office, 100 Parliament Street.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
