Government Finance Function Skills & Capability Lead

Public Spending GroupThe Public Spending Group is a high-profile and rewarding place to work. We help the Chancellor decide what to spend 1.2trillion a year on and ensure government delivers value for money for the taxpayer. We are responsible for reporting to Parliament and the public on how taxpayers money is spent. We drive forward improved outcomes and efficiency in public services and make sure value for money is at the centre of decision-making through better evaluation, data and analysis. We advise on overall government policy on public sector pay and pensions, the biggest single driver of public spending. We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance, debt and risk capability across government and developing the management information, tools and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money.The Government Finance Function (GFF) The GFF ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government delivering value for money, strengthening public trust.The Finance Function comprises of over 10,500 FTE spread across 39 Government organisations.The Function needs to move at pace to make further progress towards its vision and the decision has been taken to strengthen and formalise the functional centre for the Government Finance Function, aligned to the Civil Service Functional Leadership model.The People and Capability TeamThis role sits within the People & Capability team. Priorities for the team include:Developing a high performing, capable and diverse Function for the future, with great people in the right roles with the right skills now and in the future.Learning & Development the Government Finance Academy (GFA), determining the future strategy for the GFA ensuring a future focussed and sustainable model to deliver a high quality learning and development offer for the Government Finance Function.Career Framework: Standardising expectations of skills, qualifications and experience required to succeed in roles across GFF, supporting attraction, development and retention of diverse talent across the function.Talent Management: developing a robust and diverse talent pipeline through a dynamic and engaging talent management strategy.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive environment across the Finance Function.Developing an attractive reward and retention strategy to help attract and retain great people.Resourcing and strategic workforce planning to ensure succession plans are in place for the functions pivotal roles.Building excellent links with networks across Government to utilise expert services and embed our initiatives in departments, sharing knowledge, best practice and resource.As the Skills and Capability Lead for the Government Finance Function, you will be joining our team of HR, Finance and L&D Professionals who are responsible for leading the GFF People and Capability offer for the function across government.At the heart of this work is developing capability for the Government Finance Function, ensuring a high quality, evidenced based, diverse and value for money capability and skills offer for the GFF (c11,000 people) to ensure staff working across Government Finance have the right skills and capability to manage public money. This role provides an excellent opportunity to work across Government and professional boundaries to provide a single point of contact for capturing insights about finance skills in and out of government, and then to use this to develop the Government Finance Academy curriculum, our capability offer for all GFF staff and our approach to developing new skills across the finance community. Success in this role will require you to work across and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across organisational boundaries as a trusted partner, utilising your skills and experience to build a strong network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to drive outcomes for the Government Finance Function.This role plays a key role in identifying and defining the skills required across the finance function, utilising insight from sources across the team and shaping our learning and development offer and ensuring the offer reaches our intended audience in an engaging and impactful way. Key accountabilities include: Build understanding and insight around the key skills requirements for the finance function and highlight areas of strength and weakness by using external benchmarks, research from professional bodies and internal insights from departments. Provide analysis to show where we need to invest to build skills across the function and use this analysis to help define future learning and development requirements. Support design and delivery across a full range of finance L&D interventions and ensure key topics and themes are prioritised for Face to Face and Virtual learning interventions. Lead the skills elements of the development of the GFF Learning and Development strategy, undertaking independent research on best practice from across Government and Private Sector and embedding good examples. Lead on crucial relationship with GFF Comms and Engagement team to ensure that communications for the GFA and wider skills agenda are advertised in a timely manner and ensuring the curriculum is up to date and visible to all. Lead on contract processes and management for GFA and capability/professional requirements, liaising with Crown Commercial Services and HMT Commercial teams, on local procurement ensuring full compliance with standard processes and value for money.If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact [email protected]