Vehicle Replacement Programme Manager - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ
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Job Title: Vehicle Replacement Programme Manager - Counter Terrorism Policing HQ
Salary: £32,194 to £34,452 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £32,194 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £34,452 will be via incremental progression.
Location: West Brompton
Our Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) officers need high quality vehicles to perform their vital work. As a Vehicle Replacement Programme Manager, you’ll ensure they have a modern, high-performing fleet that’s always ready to roll.
In this key role, you’ll deliver the Capital Vehicle Replacement Programme for both Counter Terrorism (CT) and Protective Security Grant-funded (PSG) vehicles. Through the Programme, vehicles will be replaced after five years, ensuring our team have an effective fleet for crucial CT operations.
Day to day, you’ll work with service providers within the Met Police’s Frontline Support Services and outside partners, managing relationships and checking contracts perform as planned. You’ll also maintain a database of vehicles, map out five-year replacements and prepare business cases, but you won’t do it alone.
To tackle this challenge, you’ll have a team of five Resource Fleet Assistants who are embedded in Special Operations (SO) Business Groups. Together, you’ll see that the fleet is inspected and reviewed, while taking value for money into account.
To join us at this level, you must have delivered outstanding business support services before. We’re looking for a skilled professional, who can balance conflicting demands in a busy role. Organised and good with people, you can manage expectations, drawing on strong communication skills. Bring your talents to our team and help protect the UK.
Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself, a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension, you'll also benefit from excellent career and professional development.
Our Employee Commitments
Counter Terrorism Policing aims to create an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere and culture and an environment where all our people feel a strong sense of belonging and are able to reach their full potential. Where any group or individual can be and feel respected, supported and valued to fully participate and contribute to our mission of “Working to keep people safe from Terrorism”.
Inclusion, diversity and equality is at the front and centre of our approach to make the composition of Counter Terrorism Policing more representative of the communities we serve. As Counter Terrorism is rooted in Local Policing, to tackle today’s complex policing challenges, applications from across all communities are therefore essential and encouraged. Counter Terrorism Policing as a network is committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations’.
Counter Terrorism Policing is committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working arrangements, including part time working or job share. In addition, this role has been reviewed following learning from work during the Covid pandemic and may be done in an agile manner. In the first instance, please contact the vacancy holder to discuss how such arrangements could be accommodated (where applicable).
Counter Terrorism Policing recruitment is open to all, but we are keen to positively support those who are younger in service to join into our specialist environment.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV and online application form.
Completed applications must be submitted by 11 April 2023.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Essential Experience
- Hold a current full UK driving Licence
- Clear understanding of the Police Vehicle and Driver Regulations
- Clear Understanding of the Home to Work Policy
- Managing and delivering quality business support services
- Sound Resource Management
- Good interpersonal skills, expected to manage expectations and prioritise conflicting demands
- Highly effective communication skills.
Desirables
- Experience of managing relationships especially with senior stakeholders
- Ability to negotiate with a broad range of stakeholders (internal and external)
- Clear understanding of client and service provider relationship
- Understanding of business support service provision
- Understanding Procurement regulations and compliance requirements
- Strategic awareness
- Preparation of business cases for business group related activity
- Understanding of Vehicular Resource Management
- Ability to write and review business cases and processes (i.e. Process Maps)
- Ability to generate solutions and recommendations to problems
- Experience of advising and guiding business decisions to ensure compliance
- High level of planning and organisational skills
- Experience of managing and developing people and team working
Additional Information
Please provide your dates to avoid for the next 2 months; these should be listed at the bottom of your application.
- We analyse critically at level 2
- We take ownership at level 2
- We are collaborative at level 2
- We support, deliver and inspire at level 2
- Professionalism
- Integrity
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.