Strategic Performance Lead 6-Month Contract
Strategic Performance Lead 6-Month Contract
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Strategic Performance Lead 6Month Contract)
Division Operations
Department Strategy
Salary National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 72100 to 90000 and London 79300 to 100000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.
The Strategy Department sits at the heart of the FCA. We inform and drive the delivery of the FCAs Strategy and provide central oversight of delivery on behalf of our Executive Committee and the Board. We facilitate prioritisation and business planning decisions and ensure the organisation measures and reports its performance against agreed outcomes.
Are you interested in joining a small and friendly team where you will play a vital role in shaping how we measure and report how we are performing against the FCAs Strategy.
What will you be doing
You will be driving and improving the FCAs performance and measurement approach and also play a key role in the development of the next phase of measuring our performance against the FCAs strategy. This role includes setting out an approach for leading indicators and activity metrics and you will support and advise FCA colleagues on both causal chains and logic models to enable the setting of leading indicators. This role also involves the effective reporting and communication of our performance against the strategy outcome metrics and leading indicators to our executive committee and the board. You will also contribute to the technical leadership to help continuously improve our approach.
You will collaborate and work across the organisation to ensure that key data is accurate and collected efficiently. In addition to this facilitating the agreement of roles and responsibilities across internal stakeholders (including senior levels) and ongoing ways of working across the organisation to support effective measurement. This role may include mentoring and overseeing the work of more junior members of the department.
What will you get from the role
Your work will be both varied and demanding. You will have a rare opportunity to understand and help shape the FCAs strategic direction
You and your outputs will have a high exposure across the FCA. You will work closely with a wide range of internal colleagues including senior FCA decision makers
You will have excellent opportunities to develop knowledge of the breadth of work across the FCA and how strategic decisions are made
You will have strong ownership of your work and be empowered to lead on will work in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment with a strong focus on continuous improvement
Which skills are required
We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore disabled people or individuals with longterm conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here
Minimum
Experience of setting and measuring strategic outcomes in the public sector
Experience of the causal chain / logic model approach to evaluation
Experience of performance measurement including indicator selection direction/target setting reporting developing monitoring and evaluation or performance monitoring
Essential
Ability to build rapport constructive relationships make a strong personal impact and persuade with wellreasoned arguments. Ability to present and influence (at all levels)
Ability to understand and communicate the strengths and weaknesses of different data sets
Practical understanding of the strengths and pitfalls of using KPIs to measure strategy
Our Values & Diversity
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths views and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation one that makes better decisions drives innovation and delivers better regulation.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.
Did you know 50 of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this we particularly welcome applications from women minority ethnic disabled and neurodivergent candidates for our Technical Support role.
Benefits of working at the FCA
25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
Hybrid working (work from home up to 60 of your time)
Private healthcare with Bupa
A noncontributory Pension of at least 8 of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age up to 12 a month once you reach age 35
Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
Income protection
We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package tailored to suit your lifestyle.
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working parttime staggered hours and job shares. We cant promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.
Follow this link to see what life is like at the FCA Life at the FCA
Application Support
We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.
If you have an accessibility need disability or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.
Useful Information and Timeline
This role is graded as Level 5 Technical Specialist Regulatory
This role is available to external candidates as a 6Month Fixed Term Contract or to internal candidates as a secondment/ actingup
Advert Closing Date:5th May
CV Review/Shortlist: w/c 7th May
First Round Interview: w/c 12th May
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role therefore please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
Got a question
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact: Cameron Nunn on
Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.
Employment Type
Full-Time
