Strategy and Planning Manager

Summary

As a Strategy and Planning Manager, you will be welcomed into a dynamic and inclusive Strategy team working on the IOPC’s business planning process. The IOPC is on a journey to develop its culture, perspectives and ethos to support the organisation’s core outcomes and this is your opportunity to enter into the varied world of IOPC Strategy allowing you to develop your mindset and approaches to contribute to improving the police complaints system in England and Wales.

The Strategy and Planning Manager is responsible for:

• Managing the IOPC’s annual business planning process, ensuring plans are affordable, deliverable and aligned to the organisation’s strategy
• Leading efficiency and investment planning across the organisation, ensuring the production of robust and deliverable plans for improving the efficiency of the organisation and identifying where the organisation wants to invest.
• Providing and maintaining a process for effectively managing in-year changes to agreed business plans
• Leading in the Strategy and Planning team and managing the Strategy and Planning Officer(s).
• Supporting the planning and delivery of elements to improve the strategic maturity of the organisation.

The Strategy and Planning Manager leads within the Strategy and Planning team and manages the staff within the team. The Strategy Unit leads on the development of the strategic direction for the organisation, ensuring we answer, “are we doing the right things?” to deliver our mission through understanding the capabilities we need and planning how we deliver on the success we have stated.

We’ll assess you against these Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Level behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

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Throughout the recruitment process we will also assess your Experience, Strengths, Technical skills and IOPC Values. As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete 4 sift questions based on the essential criteria.

Anticipated assessment and interview dates are Late March/Early April.

*We reserve the right to close this advert early if a high number of applications is received.*

Package:

• 27.5 days paid annual leave (increasing with service to 32.5 days) Options to carry over, buy or sell annual leave
• Civil Service pension Civil Service maternity leave package
• PAM employee assistance programme
• Access to Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to enjoy the latest home and electronics in a more affordable way provided by Vivup
• Car Leasing Scheme Staff networks focused on each of the protected characteristics – run for staff, by staff: Enable Network, Welsh Network, Pride and LGBTQI+ Network, Sex and Family Network, Race, Religion and Belief Network
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity behaviours

Additional Information:

The IOPC is not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process, therefore successful candidates will not be able to transfer to the IOPC on their existing terms and conditions.

The IOPC does not participate in the UK Visa Sponsorship Scheme therefore, candidates will have to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK if offered a role with us.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore a standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be carried out for the successful candidate during the pre-employment process.

Any move to the Independent Office for Police Conduct from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may, however, be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at

In line with the IOPC Recruitment and Selection Policy, we recommend that internal colleagues make an early application within the first seven days, so that we can see if there is enough interest within the organisation to keep the role internal for the full advert live period. Remember, we will review the number of applications after the first seven days and the role may be advertised externally after this period. See the Recruitment and Selection Policy or Guidance for further information.

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Main Responsibilities:

• Maintain a sound understanding of the context in which the IOPC operates and ensure intelligence from its own work and work across the police complaints system informs planning activity
• Manage the IOPC’s annual business planning process, ensuring plans are affordable, deliverable and aligned to the organisation’s strategy Interact with finance to produce annual budgets to ensure that annual plans are deliverable and appropriately resourced
• Identify future financial pressures and investment opportunities that will affect our budget ensure resources are dedicated where needed through the in year change process. ensure there is a collaborative approach to strategic financial planning
• Work collaboratively with the Performance team to ensure that measures are agreed as part of the Business Plan.
• Produce the IOPC’s annual business plan documents, ensuring plans are effectively communicated to internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner
• Provide and maintain a process for effectively managing in-year changes to agreed business plans
• Lead efficiency and investment planning across the organisation, ensuring the production of robust deliverable plans for improving the efficiency of the organisation and developing plans that enable us to invest.
• Ensure good practice is adhered to in relation to the planning processes, liaising with other functions across the organisation to support delivery.
• Continuously improve the planning processes to increase the organisations strategic maturity, identifying innovative solutions to problems to ensure they continue to meet the needs of the business and follows best practice
• Develop and maintain good relationships with senior managers and Directors to provide advice, challenge and guidance across all planning activity.
• Analyse information to provide support and advice to the DG, Management Board and Unitary Board to ensure plans are robust, deliverable and strategically aligned to enable them to make effective decisions.
• Lead the Strategy and Planning team and manage, develop and oversee the work of the Strategy and Planning Officer(s) to ensure delivery of the team’s objectives and improve the organisation’s strategic maturity.
• Support the delivery of new strategic plans and other strategic planning activity, as required, influencing their development direction
• Deputise for the Strategy Unit Lead when necessary and provide support on the functioning of the Strategy Unit and the planning of activity to improve our strategic maturity.
• Work flexibly to support the work of the Strategy, Policy and Impact directorate to ensure it continues to meet its objectives
• Act as a representative of the Strategy, Policy and Impact directorate, providing leadership and supporting engagement activity across the organisation as required.

Ideal Candidate

Essential Experience:

• Experience in leading business and financial planning processes Ability to think strategically to see the bigger picture
• Knowledge of strategic planning processes and models.
• Knowledge and experience of change control processes and ability to identify how to resources effectively.
• Developing and drafting strategic plans developing and maintaining effective relationships with a variety of internal stakeholders including the DG, DDGs and Directors (Senior leaders).
• Working collaboratively with key teams in these processes ie Finance, communications and the performance team.
• Providing advice and challenge to and influencing more senior colleagues
• Excellent administration and co-ordination skills using persuasion, negotiating and influencing skills to develop and maintain good relationships with senior customers / stakeholders analysing complex issues and problems and ability to clearly communicating them orally and in writing and make recommendations to get effect decisions to solve these.
• Staff management and team building.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of project methodology (Prince 2) – desirable The role requires clearance to BPSS National security vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK ()
• Reasonable Adjustments

The IOPC is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. We are open to providing you with the tools you need to succeed. Whilst this list is not exhaustive, please see potential reasonable adjustments below that we can provide:

• Extra time for presentations or interview questions
• Formatting changes such as colours for text or background on written assignments

Questions presented in writing during interviews If you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, please email

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