Deputy Chief Executive and Second Permanent Secretary
HM Revenue and Customs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 5th April 2020
Reference number
41647
Salary
£150,000 - £160,000
Grade
SCS Pay Band 4
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
HMRC - CEO Group - Other
Type of role
Senior leadership
Working pattern
Full-time
Number of posts
1
Location
London
About the job
Summary
HM
Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is one of the largest government
departments and one of the UK’s biggest organisations. Almost every
individual and business in the UK is a customer of HMRC. We collect the
taxes that pay for the UK’s public services and provide financial
support for families.
Our vision is to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department, and our strategic objectives are to:
• collect the right tax and pay out the right financial support
• make it easy to get tax right and hard to break the rules
• treat everyone fairly and protect society from harm, and
• make HMRC a great place to work.
We will deliver these objectives with our values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation.
We collect around £628 billion a year in revenue from 45 million individual customers and 5.4 million businesses across the UK and pay £25.9bn tax credits to 3.3m families. We handle more than 50 million customer calls and answer around 15 million items of customer correspondence every year. We lose £35bn tax and around £1.5bn tax credits and Child Benefit each year through non-payment, error and fraud.
Our vision is to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department, and our strategic objectives are to:
• collect the right tax and pay out the right financial support
• make it easy to get tax right and hard to break the rules
• treat everyone fairly and protect society from harm, and
• make HMRC a great place to work.
We will deliver these objectives with our values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation.
We collect around £628 billion a year in revenue from 45 million individual customers and 5.4 million businesses across the UK and pay £25.9bn tax credits to 3.3m families. We handle more than 50 million customer calls and answer around 15 million items of customer correspondence every year. We lose £35bn tax and around £1.5bn tax credits and Child Benefit each year through non-payment, error and fraud.
Job description
The post-holder reports to the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HMRC.
The role of the Permanent Secretary is to lead the day-to-day running of the department and to head up our Executive Committee (ExCom). As Accounting Officer, the Permanent Secretary is accountable to Parliament for the department’s expenditure and performance and advise ministers on our strategy and objectives.
As Deputy Chief Executive you will have a pivotal leadership role, responsible for implementing the departmental strategy through the transformation and delivery of HMRC’s operational and compliance services. You will lead over 50,000 of our people.
You will be a pivotal leader in HMRC at a time of critical importance for our organisation and will have oversight of our major transformation portfolio, from the introduction of digital services for businesses to the department’s move to a network of Regional Centres.
As Deputy Chief Executive you will be a key member of HMRC’s Executive Committee. You will demonstrate and champion HMRC’s values and play a primary role in the collective leadership of the Civil Service as a whole, personifying inspiring, confident and empowering leadership. Together with the First Permanent Secretary you will be influential in role modelling and championing respect, inclusion and systems leadership both within HMRC and across the civil service, creating the culture and conditions where collective and problem led leadership can flourish in tackling complex challenges across organisational boundaries. You will support the development of systems focused leadership capability across HMRC and seek to build strong and diverse pipelines of talent.
• Implement HMRC’s strategy and deliver our operational and compliance services to make tax compliance easy and fair.
• Be accountable for the operational arm of HMRC; our Customer Compliance and Customer Services Groups.
• Oversee delivery of our major transformation portfolio, driving the most ambition reform of the tax system in a generation and meeting our Spending Review commitments.
The role of the Permanent Secretary is to lead the day-to-day running of the department and to head up our Executive Committee (ExCom). As Accounting Officer, the Permanent Secretary is accountable to Parliament for the department’s expenditure and performance and advise ministers on our strategy and objectives.
As Deputy Chief Executive you will have a pivotal leadership role, responsible for implementing the departmental strategy through the transformation and delivery of HMRC’s operational and compliance services. You will lead over 50,000 of our people.
You will be a pivotal leader in HMRC at a time of critical importance for our organisation and will have oversight of our major transformation portfolio, from the introduction of digital services for businesses to the department’s move to a network of Regional Centres.
As Deputy Chief Executive you will be a key member of HMRC’s Executive Committee. You will demonstrate and champion HMRC’s values and play a primary role in the collective leadership of the Civil Service as a whole, personifying inspiring, confident and empowering leadership. Together with the First Permanent Secretary you will be influential in role modelling and championing respect, inclusion and systems leadership both within HMRC and across the civil service, creating the culture and conditions where collective and problem led leadership can flourish in tackling complex challenges across organisational boundaries. You will support the development of systems focused leadership capability across HMRC and seek to build strong and diverse pipelines of talent.
Responsibilities
• Play a core leadership role across HMRC and the wider Civil Service. You will be expected to be an active and visible Deputy Chief Executive, supporting in the leadership of our Executive Committee and working with colleagues to role model and embed HMRC’s values across the organisation. You will be fundamental in building an inclusive workforce and culture to make HMRC a great place to work.• Implement HMRC’s strategy and deliver our operational and compliance services to make tax compliance easy and fair.
• Be accountable for the operational arm of HMRC; our Customer Compliance and Customer Services Groups.
• Oversee delivery of our major transformation portfolio, driving the most ambition reform of the tax system in a generation and meeting our Spending Review commitments.
Benefits
Benefits
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension
Things you need to know
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting.
Selection process details
Russell
Reynolds Associates (RRA) has been appointed to support this
recruitment. Short-listing of candidates will involve the assessment of
information provided in the application documentation detailed in the
candidate information pack.
The closing date for applications is 23:55 Sunday 5 April 2020. All applications will be acknowledged and considered by the selection panel.
Please submit materials requested in the candidate information pack by email to Responses@RussellReynolds.com prior to advert closing at 23:55, Sunday 5 April 2020.
Please include a daytime, evening and mobile telephone contact number, and your preferred email address for correspondence, which will be used with discretion.
The provisional timetable is as follows:
Long-listing w/c 13 April 2020
RRA Interviews w/c 20 & 27 April
Short-listing w/c 4 May 2020
Assessments w/c 11 & 18 May 2020
Panel Interviews w/c 25 May 2020
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
The closing date for applications is 23:55 Sunday 5 April 2020. All applications will be acknowledged and considered by the selection panel.
Please submit materials requested in the candidate information pack by email to Responses@RussellReynolds.com prior to advert closing at 23:55, Sunday 5 April 2020.
Please include a daytime, evening and mobile telephone contact number, and your preferred email address for correspondence, which will be used with discretion.
The provisional timetable is as follows:
Long-listing w/c 13 April 2020
RRA Interviews w/c 20 & 27 April
Short-listing w/c 4 May 2020
Assessments w/c 11 & 18 May 2020
Panel Interviews w/c 25 May 2020
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The
Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.
There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with
disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Apply and further information
Contact point for applicants
| Job contact : | ||
| Name : | Lorcan Lennon (Russell Reynolds) | |
| Email : | Responses@RussellReynolds.com | |
| Recruitment team : | ||
| Email : | Responses@RussellReynolds.com | |
Further information
The
law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on
merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil
Service Commission's Recruitment Principles, which can be found at this
address: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment
and if you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with
the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you
should contact Carol Maye at carol.maye@cabinetoffice.gov.uk in the
first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive
from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at
this address:
https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/civilservicerecruitmentcomplaints/
www.gov.uk/hmrc
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"Our vision is to be a trusted..." ??? HMRC will never be trusted until the day the corruption is eradicated; which would have to include HMRC fully complying with investigations in support of the potential criminal prosecution of past & present staff.
ReplyDeleteWell it seems that someone in DWP has won their case against them for bullying, harassment and racism.
DeleteRead this BBC article to see how to prosecute the bullying offenders instead of just complaining about it.
BBC News - Cardiff woman wins £400k in DWP race discrimination row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51620990
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DeleteI did respond to the irrelevant 25 Feb 20 @ 07:18 comment, but sadly that trolling snowflake was upset with the truth about corruption, so went running to the site administrator to request it be removed. Poor them (probably the person who responds to their own comments endlessly).
DeleteI respect Ken's decision to delete the comment (but disagree with it). For those with a more open mind than the above commenter, I naming the inept or corrupt (let neutral people decide) grievance investigators on Twitter. Nothing wrong with that. Facts are facts. Right is right. If those people don't like it, then I'd be very happy to finally meet them face to face and talk through their actions man to so-called man. They should be held accountable for their conduct.
It was not 25 Feb @07:18 who complained about your post it was me. This is not the first time that you have indulged in the cowardly practice of naming individuals on here knowing that as they are serving officers in HMRC they can't respond to your allegations. Also as your comments were potentially libellous it puts Ken in a hell of a difficult position.
DeleteDearest Kevin,
DeleteThank you so much for your response. You use the name "Kevin Wilson" on here and have previously identified yourself as a former HMRC officer - is that your real name, which offices did you serve in, and in what capacity was that?
Moving on to the substantive issue, your concern for HMRC's so-called Grievance Investigators is heart-warming in many respects, I am sure.
Please be told, and do try to take this on board, that naming individuals on here or elsewhere is not cowardly. On the contrary, given HMRC could probably guess which bullying case it refers to, to take on a violent, powerful and dishonest organisation like HMRC is a brave practice. Those two individuals played a crucial role in covering-up unlawful conduct and violent bullying which led to homelessness and has left me on the verge of suicide at many points.
As I made clear in the comment you ran to administrator about, it is probably reasonable to conclude that they were deliberately covering up misconduct - if so, the excuse of 'they were just doing their jobs' doesn't really cut it; to cover for events which would have a deleterious impact on any person subjected to that level of hounding, which went on over a number of years, does not just display a lack of personal integrity, it is also the lowest form of humanity.
It's also very sweet of you to worry about such issues being "potentially libellous". Be in no doubt, the narrative which they cobbled together to cover for HMRC did indeed defame me and ultimately worsened my health. As for my naming them, please rest assured that it is in no way defamatory. The thing with defamation law is, it only applies if untruths have been said. They. Have. Not. Those men are in relatively senior positions at HMRC, and it is thus in the public interest to name them. It is even more incumbent to do so when they engaged in the cowardly conduct of attempting to cover for wrongdoing (even failed to refer a Senior Office grade to Internal Governance regarding criminal breaches of data laws etc, among other matters) and then running away, evading any opportunity for a face-to-face meeting to discuss their fiction.
I can assure Ken that, notwithstanding HMRC are dangerous liars, naming them would not have led to any issues (we all know they would not want the full details of whole unsavoury chapter to enter the public domain). However, as it has now been deleted, you need not worry yourself.
My concern is not just for myself, and never has been. The violence HMRC inflicted on me has had an enduring affect for a lengthy period of time now. I continue to undergo therapy. My overriding concern, which I told HMRC themselves, is that the cover-up, and the way they engineered it, leaves certain individuals emboldened and a potential danger to the public in their 'day jobs' as tax administrators.
I pity those who feel a need to defend powerful bullies. God bless.
As our American cousins would say "nice try but no cigar".
DeleteHaving read previous threads that I have posted on you will be fully aware that I have been accused of sexually assaulting both male and female colleagues and taking bribes from the accountancy profession. My 'insurance policy' against these allegations was that none of my accusers (all posting anonymously, of course) were able to identify the office in which they supposedly worked alongside me. So, if you don't mind, I'll keep that information to myself for the time being. Although I can confirm that during my time with HMRC I was employed at Officer level as a VAT assurance officer.
Interesting that you always post anonymously yourself, even though, as you say if HMRC were bothered they could probably easily identify you.
But the important point is that all the flannel and bluster above is yet again deflecting from the central issue of why you have not at the very least taken HMRC to an Employment Tribunal given all the damning evidence in your possession. You don't even need to hire a solicitor, you could represent yourself.
I made the comment at 07.18 and had not seen your comment before it was deleted.
DeleteLet me get one thing straight. I am no snowflake and left after 33 years service before my opinions got me in trouble. You do not know me not the job I did. As much as I dont know you apart from what I read from your dozens of posts here. You really do need to seek out a proper employment solicitor, just like the DWP staff member did.
That was the point of my post, if you had bothered to read it, in that an employee of DWP managed to get DWP to court for bullying and for racist comments made.
I imagine in that instance DWP's HR department did all they could to silence the matter. She was able to get this to court. And, quite rightly, get compensation. Even though some those accused of her bullying were promoted.
It all sounds a familiar story doent it?
When it comes to calling out HMRC's workplace bullying culture (with numerous lives wrecked as a resukt), HMRC misconduct and HMRC cover-ups, I am not afraid to be unfraid. Wrong is wrong. Period.
DeleteHave you contacted IG to investigate? Can use anonymous portal if worried?
DeleteLove the Benefits listed:
ReplyDelete• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension
No company car? Subsidised Travel? Private Healthcare?
Seems none are needed as inclusion and diversity are far better benefits, arent they? Shouldn't this be taken as read for ANY company, and not be a listed benefit?
The recent spectacle of the smiling toadies/arse lickers sat round the cabinet table at 10 Downing Street, I sadly realise that this is how public sector management is expected to operate.
ReplyDeleteSo HMRC Excom has been ahead of the curve this past decade when I had hoped they were hopelessly out of step.
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever of things improving at HMRC.
I wouldn't be surprised if Dominic the SpAD sat on the interview panel.
DeleteHe gets everywhere like dog shite on a carpet.
Nope. There's no chance of anything improving within HMRC
Do they make these names up? Lorcan Lennon and Russell Reynolds.
ReplyDeleteWho's doing the sift - Peter Parker?
WD40 on that revolving door...
ReplyDeleteSo having promoted a deputy to chief they are now advertising for a replacement deputy.
ReplyDeleteHow fucking dare they? Scum of the earth, bullying bastards. Why aren't the mainstream media getting involved in this scandal? Where is Paul Garlick8?
Has he been silenced by the Deep State and Nelthorpe's enablers within HR?
The truth will out.
Shameful: they missed this bit out again:
ReplyDelete"Those not aleady aware of having been pre approved as a potential candidate need not apply"