Head of Cross Government Partnerships

This role is in a newly formed team and is central to how DWP builds stronger working relationships with other government departments to better tackle areas of joint fraud interest. The ability to continue to develop the vision for the team and make those relationships happen from introduction and inception to fully fledged ways of mutually beneficial partnership working is vital to the role. The role will lead a new function bringing together an oversight of activity our internal stakeholders are engaged in with external partners. This will bring a visible and joined up approach to external work as well as enabling gaps and opportunities to be identified to drive new work.The ability to inspire, motivate and influence teams, colleagues and senior leaders, both internally to DWP and externally, to come together against a backdrop of competing challenges and priorities to find collaborative solutions to complex problems.Leading a geographically dispersed team spread across three Grade 7-led teams covering a broad range of responsibilities.Oversight and Stewardship responsible for oversight of cross-government work ensuring collective understanding of fraud related engagement across CFCD and linked areas, including developing a stakeholder relations strategy and engagement mapping, identifying gaps and potential for future activity.Partnership Offer developing, communicating and delivering an offer around: operational activity; data and technology; capability and knowledge; ensuring these can be used as levers to respond to joint fraud risks. The offer needs to make explicit the steps to ensure the right stakeholders are involved and work is directed to the relevant CFCD teams.DWP / HMRC Counter-fraud Partnership leading an existing Partnership with HMRC, shaping the strategy and delivery strands, building a framework for partnering. Lead, monitor and report on performance.Emerging and new partnering opportunities - continue established and emerging work with Other Government Departments, whilst actively seeking and developing new potential for collaboration, particularly in untapped or underexploited areas.Key responsibilitiesLeading and delivering against a complex and broad span of work areas displaying inspirational leadership to a geographically dispersed team, ensuring that members are clear about expected standards of performance, are motivated and professionally developed to provide excellent services.Collaborating with existing stakeholders and identification of new stakeholders and partners: identifying the right stakeholders, developing strategic relationships to be able to understand risks and opportunities; proactively engaging with stakeholders to collaborate on complex work and maintain those relationships, balancing competing priorities.Ensuring engagement at strategic and operational levels is visible and joined up. Where work involves multi-disciplinary teams, bring all this together and ensure there is structure and visibility around the engagement that takes place. This may require mapping of engagement or processes or having structured delivery plans.Adapt to change, building the capability of others and yourself, leading and coaching your team.Influence and build consensus at a senior level around our business and be able to link those stakeholders into a persuasive future vision.Work with stakeholders on strategic priorities to tackle fraud. Be able to think bigger than our current operational approaches and model; looking beyond the obvious detect response to tackling fraud and can lead on deploying other levers to prevent non-compliance. Be a self-starter, comfortable working with uncertainty, where there is no precedent or existing procedure, identifying and establishing strong relationships, adapting and thriving in times of ambiguity with the ability to prioritise a varied workload, delivering and motivating others to deliver.Communicate with clarity to a variety of partners and stakeholders, explaining complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.