Head of Solution Assurance for NOMS Electronic Monitoring Programme

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Summary of the work Opportunity with the high-profile, Ministerial-prioritised Electronic Monitoring Programme (EMP) delivering an improved electronic tagging system for England and Wales. EMP aims to enhance the current curfew offering with the ability to track location and to monitor exclusion and inclusion zones. This additional capability will enable sentencing reforms delivering critical savings. Specialist role Delivery manager Latest start date 24/02/2017 Who Speclialist Work With Specialist will lead a team that will be provided through a number of “managed service” contracts: currently these are through Home Office’s Test Design Consultancy Service; the Ministry of Justice’s Information Assurance team, and; the Home Office CAST team. It is part of a programme team which also includes programme management, design, implementation, commercial/legal, policy and business change functions. What Specialists Work On -Leadership and guidance to the Test and Information Assurance teams -Ensure strategies are in place for Information Assurance, Testing and Solution Assurance -Responsible for co-ordinating all activities relating to solution assurance and the response to all security related matters, ensuring resources are used efficiently and risks and issues are effectively managed -Shape and define technical standards and associated requirements -Check compliance with applicable regulations, standards, policies and guidance on information risk management -Be responsible for the development and certification of the Information Security Management System (ISMS) and the application of ISO/IEC 27001 controls -Programme reporting and lessons learned. Skills & Experience • Experience of working in a complex public sector multi-stakeholder environment with extensive formal governance requirements. • Demonstrable experience of building and leading a diverse and multi-skilled team of technical professionals. • Demonstrable experience of providing robust, industry-standard or better levels of testing and assurance, leading to successful delivery of a complex, integrated system. • Experience of managing Information Assurance accreditation and putting in place the systems and processes to support ongoing compliance • Experience of working productively and innovatively with third-party suppliers to deliver demanding programme expectations to a tight timescale. • Experience of ensuring that sufficiently robust testing (covering functional and non-functional testing) and Information assurance regimes are in place to provide quality assurance to a programme • Experience of managing complex integration testing involving integration across multiple services, organisations and legacy systems • Experience of defining work packages and budgets, and managing against them. • Experience of working with other work-streams such as Implementation and PMO, as part of a programme delivery team to support timely “go-live” and associated risk and issue management. • Evidence of implementing the appropriate methods and processes, test phases / types, ways of working, organisation and governance across the testing lifecycle. • Can submit candidate CV to kiah_rose.sheppard@justice.gsi.gov.uk by midday Wednesday 11th of January. Nice to Haves • Experience of working with justice and/or on a mixed government/private sector programme desirable. • Come via an established provider, with experience in the areas covered in the experience section above, to provide additional advice from the organisation if required to support the individual. Work Location Clive House, 70 Petty France and 102 Petty France Working Arrangments Specialist is required to lead all aspects of solution assurance across the programme including technology and physical testing and information assurance. It is part of a programme team which also includes programme management, design, implementation management, commercial/legal, policy and business change functions. Security Clearance CTC/SC (or ability to have clearance to this level by April 2017) No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • A thorough, careful, methodical approach with strong attention to detail and the ability to anticipate risks and issues and mitigate against them. • A pro-active individual that demonstrates initiative in taking the lead, bringing stakeholders with them, and is resilient and able to work under pressure, sometimes in a very exposed environment. • Strong personal presence and ability to gain credibility rapidly in a new environment. • A good “team player” with a clear focus on the end goal and delivery, and a mature understanding of how testing supports excellence. • A great team-leader, able to pull together mixed teams quickly and get them working effectively together. • A strong professional understanding of current best practice in standards, testing and assurance and a commitment to ongoing personal and team development. • A mature understanding of the different methodologies used in systems and service delivery and how testing can most cost-effectively support delivery. • A “can do” attitude, resilient and able to flex personal style and deliverables to meet changing requirements. • Excellent commercial, negotiation and influencing skills • Great communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly and persuasively to a non-technical audience; convey difficult messages robustly; and to stand up to challenge. • Strong at engaging senior stakeholders, decision makers, and suppliers. • Commitment to the principles of openness, honesty and integrity, taking responsibility for their own and their teams actions, and exercising professional judgement in decision-making and escalation. • Highly resilient, able to work under sustained pressure. • Utilising an appropriate balance of collaborative working and more formal assessment to provide senior management with comfort that the programme will deliver high quality outputs. Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 50% Cultural fit 20% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. Please can you confirm the maximum day rate At this moment in time, we do have an ideal budget day rate, but are not in a position to share this. We tend to leave price evaluation and discussion once we're past the shortlist stage. I hope this does not deter any potential responses. Thanks! 2. Please can you confirm the expected duration. Thank you. The initial SOW, and those following, will all be set at 6 months duration. We expect this role will be required for 18-24 months. 3. It would appear that the MoJ wants to resource a named individual who they have a hand in assessing as a specialist and for whom they will be supervising and directing. Can the MoJ confirm, or otherwise, that, if the person provisioned were a subcontractor they would be assessed as falling within the new “Off-payroll working in the public sector” directives due April 6th? TBC ASAP