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Director of
Resources
APPLICATION PACK 2020
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020 1
Welcome from the
Chief Constable
Hello and welcome to South Yorkshire Police.
I am delighted you are interested in joining our force at what is
such an important and exciting time for us.
In the past few years, SYP has made great strides in our
journey to becoming an outstanding organisation in all
respects. We are one of the country’s top performing forces
and rated the most improved force, for the third consecutive
year, in our latest HMICFRS inspection. Our trajectory is
entirely positive and we have ambitious plans for the future.
To support our resurgence, and provide the public with
the service they desire, we need to attract the very best
candidates to support our existing officers and staff. Your
appointment will be a part of the most significant recruitment
drive into the force in living memory.
Our force encompasses full spectrum policing and therefore
offers a broader range of roles and fulfilment than might be
available in some other forces.
The bottom line is this: if you are a person of the right calibre,
with the right values and a strong sense of public duty, then
this role will provide you with a fantastic opportunity.
You can find details of where we are currently recruiting and
details of when registration opens for new student officers and
other roles, on our website, where you can also sign up for job
alerts.
I wish you luck in your application process and hope to see
you join us at SYP soon.
Chief Constable Stephen Watson
South Yorkshire Police
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020 2
Why South Yorkshire?
South Yorkshire is described, by
Visit England, as a place to find ‘jaw-
dropping scenery, cities steeped in
industrial heritage and hidden market
towns in equal measure’. BARNSLEY DONCASTER
It is true South Yorkshire has something for
everyone, and allows you to experience the
beauty of rolling hills and landscapes together
with vibrant and cosmopolitan towns and city.
SHEFFIELD
With its array of music, sport, art and culture, ROTHERHAM
a rich history, thriving economy and some of
the best schools, colleges and universities,
South Yorkshire makes an ideal home for all
generations.
South Yorkshire at a glance:
South Yorkshire has a population of 1.4million people
and covers an area of 599 square miles.
The county is comprised of four unitary borough
councils – City of Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and
Barnsley.
The county is home to two universities – Sheffield Hallam
and The University of Sheffield, with more than 60,000
university students combined.
The county is well serviced by strong transport links
across each of the districts, including the M1 ensuring
neighbouring counties such as Derbyshire and West
Yorkshire are in easy reach. For travel within the county,
it is home to the UK’s first Tram Train, which celebrated
is one-millionth customer in October 2019.
Sheffield is one of the greenest cities in the UK with one
third of the city within the Peak District national park,
hosting more than 200 parks, woodlands and gardens.
3 SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020
Job summary
Your Job
This critical senior leadership role drives performance and strategy DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES
in five enabling departments, to deliver an effective and efficient
customer-focused service to a growing staff base of circa 5,200. As Service:
an integral member of the Senior Command’s collective leadership Director of Resources
team, you will role model the vision, goals and values of the force.
You will lead and manage your portfolio to enable quality delivery to Grade:
the communities of South Yorkshire, and will support SYP’s strategic NPCC Director
outcomes which include tackling crime and anti-social behaviour,
Salary:
protecting vulnerable people and enabling fair treatment.
Circa £115k
Leading, developing, maintaining and coordinating our financial,
Reporting to:
physical and people resources, you will facilitate achievement of
Chief Constable
our ambitions to be an outstanding force. In this pivotal role you
will develop our long-term sustainable approach to the delivery of Location:
Commercial Services, ensuring value for money, with a portfolio Carbrook House, Force HQ
including: Corporate Finance, Regional Procurement, People &
Organisational Development alongside Estates and VFM which are Hours:
jointly delivered with the Fire Service. Full-time
This role is as much about your personal leadership qualities as it is
about technical knowledge, however as a CCAB or CIMA qualified
Accountant and section 151 officer, you will work with across SYP
to provide high quality management information and be personally
responsible for meeting force professional and financial performance
standards.
You will
Over the next 12-18 months within this exciting role you will:
3Creatively challenge existing ways of working and foster a culture
of continuous improvement.
3 Lead the Corporate Resourcing functions to ensure provision of
effective service, adherence to relevant standards and regulatory
compliance, establishing a clear performance framework to
monitor impact.
3 Contribute to the Senior Command Team’s overall strategic and
operational planning. Ensure effectiveness in supporting the
force’s goals, reflecting national guidelines and strategies where
appropriate.
3 Play a key role in enabling the organisation to achieve the aims
and objectives of our Plan on a Page and enable our journey to
outstanding.
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020 4
Job summary
3 Undertake Section 151 statutory duties as per the Act Key Relationships
and in line with CIPFA guidance. • Fellow members of the Senior Command Team,
including close working with the Chief Constable, the
3 Develop and execute an overarching commercial Police & Crime Commissioner and their members of
services strategy, identifying opportunities for
staff.
collaboration, growth and efficiency.
• Five direct reports with overall leadership and guidance
3 Ensure timely financial planning, controls and systems to all Corporate Resource staff.
are in place to underpin force resources. Ensure
• Interacting regularly with a wide range of senior
regulatory adherence, working closely with the Office
colleagues and other members of staff, across a range
of the Police & Crime Commissioner to fulfil statutory
of organisations.
duties.
• Ambassadorial and representative relationships with
3 Lead, manage and advise on financial budgeting, other police forces, the Fire and Rescue service,
reporting and analysis of all force operations to external stakeholders/partners, the media and the
enable effective financial management, ensuring general public.
value for money.
3 Ensure compliance with all formal requirements of the
force’s regulated financial management and activities,
including accountability for financial risk.
3 Influence and engage senior stakeholders to ensure
the activities of Commercial Services are valued,
understood and embraced throughout the force.
3 Work closely with a variety of internal and external
stakeholders to ensure that your portfolio service
users within SYP, regionally and collaboratively with
Fire, are receiving optimum support.
3 Lead and represent the interests of SYP at regional/
national forums (including NPCC and CIPFA
activities), engendering constructive relationships and
influencing policy and improvements for the force and
policing in general.
5 SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020
Our values and
competencies
Our Values Competencies Inclusive, enabling and
visionary Leadership
Works Collaboratively. Looks
All staff are expected to act within The Competency and Values
beyond traditional boundaries to
the ethics and values of the police Framework (CVF) has six
create the best possible outcomes.
service: competencies that are clustered into
Builds genuine and long-lasting
three groups and underpinned by
partnerships that focus on collective
Integrity our values that support everything
we do as a policing service. This role
aims, making sure partners feel
respected and valued in all dealings
should be operating at level 3 (See
Openess https://profdev.college.police.uk/
with them.
competency-values/) Delivers, Supports and Inspires.
Fairness Understands the vision for the
Resolute, compassionate organisation. Uses organisational
values in day to day activities as a
Respect and committed
role model to provide inspiration
Emotionally Aware. Makes the and clarity to colleagues and
Honesty effort to understand self, colleagues
and those served. Genuinely
stakeholders. Works to create the
right climate for people to get the
engages with and listens to others, job done to the best of their abilities,
Courage making efforts to understand needs, ensuring a culture of mutual respect
perspectives and concerns. Uses and support.
Teamwork these insights to inform our actions
and decisions.
Intelligent, creative and
Takes Ownership. Takes informed policing
personal responsibility for role and
Analyses Critically. Analyses
accountabilities, but does not let
information, data, viewpoints
this prevent being effective or taking
and combines the best available
appropriate risk. Makes decisions at
evidence to understand the root
appropriate levels and in appropriate
causes of issues. Combines insight
areas, having a clear rationale
and evidence-based approaches
and accepting responsibility for
to help make decisions, accepting
decisions. Seeks feedback, learns
won’t always have the answers but
from mistakes and reflects to
will always try to gather facts and
improve future practice.
robust information to think tactically
and strategic.
Innovative and Open-minded. Has
an inquisitive and outward-looking
nature, searches for new information
to understand alternative sources
of good practice and implement
creative working methods.
Maintains an open mind to identify
opportunities and create innovative
solutions.
6 SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020
Organisational chart
Chief Constable
Stephen Watson
Deputy Chief Constable
Mark Roberts
• Corporate
Services
Assistant Chief Constable Assistant Chief Constable - Performance & Assistant Chief Constable
Director of Resources
Lauren Poultney David Hartley Governance Tim Forber
• Corporate
Communications • Specialist Crime • Corporate Finance
• Business Change • Local Policing
& Innovation - Barnsley NHP • Professional Services
• Facilities
- Doncaster NHP Standards - Covert Policing and
• Atlas Authorities
Management
- Rotherham NHP
Communications • Legal Services - Force Crime Unit and • Procurement
- Sheffield NHP Major Incident Room
- Financial and Cyber • Vehicle Fleet
• Ops Support
Crime Unit Management
- Dog Support U
nit
- Intelligence
- Firearms Support • People &
Group - Public Protection and
Organisational
Safeguarding
- Operational and Development
Contingency Planning - Serious and Organised
Crime Unit
- Mounted S
ection
- Public Order Training - Special Branch
- Roads Policing Group • Criminal Justice
- Tactical Support Administration
Group Department
• Custody
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020 7
Our offer to you
SYP offers generous entitlements and supportive
policies to enable a better work-life balance:
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous
development
• Mentoring and coaching scheme
• Paid professional subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to range of Occupational Health facilities
• Employee Assistance Service – (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club
• Generous pension scheme
• Company Car or Car Allowance (subject to personal
taxation) – regional and sometimes national travel is
required for this role
8 SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020
Recruitment process
Application • Gary Ridley, Assistant Chief Officer,
Durham Constabulary
To apply for this post, you will need to
submit the following documents no later The panel will then assess your application
than 23:59 on 16 February 2020 to to select those demonstrating the best fit
recruiting@southyorks.pnn.police.uk with the role by considering the evidence
you have provided against the criteria set
1. A
CV setting out your career history, with out in the ‘Our Ideal Candidate’ section,
key responsibilities and achievements. and how the experience and technical
Please ensure you have provided reasons requirements are reflected in your CV. Failure
for any gaps within the last two years. to address any or all of these may affect
2. A
cover letter (no longer than two pages) your application.
explaining how you consider your Shortlisting will take place week
personal skills, qualities and experience commencing 17 February 2020 with
provide evidence of your suitability for the successful candidates invited to interview
role, with particular reference to ‘Our Ideal shortly thereafter.
Candidate’ criteria.
Failure to submit both documents will mean Assessment
the panel only have limited information on
If you are shortlisted, you will be asked
which to assess your application. Please
to take part in a series of assessments
ensure that both documents contain your full
which will include psychometric tests and
name.
an informal ‘meet the team’ opportunity.
As part of the application process, you These assessments will not result in a pass
will be asked a number of diversity-related or fail decision. Rather, they are designed
questions. If you do not wish to provide to support the panel’s decision-making
a declaration on any of the particular and highlight areas for the panel to explore
characteristics, you will have the option to further at interview.
select ‘prefer not to say’. The information you
References may be taken on shortlisted
provide when submitting your application
candidates, but these will not be obtained
will help us monitor our progress towards
without prior consent.
improving our ranking as 29th most inclusive
employer in the UK 2019. You will be asked to attend a panel interview
in order to have a more in-depth discussion
Should you encounter any issues with the
of your previous experience and professional
application process, please get in touch
competence in relation to the criteria set out.
with Michelle Webster michelle.webster@
Full details of the assessment process will
southyorks.pnn.police.uk
be made available to shortlisted candidates.
We expect interviews to take place early to
Selection Process mid-March 2020.
Chief Constable Stephen Watson will chair
the process. The other panel members will Offer
be:
Regardless of the outcome, we will notify
• Mark Roberts, Deputy Chief Constable all candidates as soon as possible after the
final interview.
• Michelle Buttery, Chief Executive of the
Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner
SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020 9
Our ideal candidate
Our ideal candidate will be/have Section 151 Officer (Local
experience of: Government Act 1972)
• Leading multidisciplinary teams in a (To be read in conjunction with Statutory
complex environment. Guidance on the responsibility of this office)
• Delivering large scale change This role requires you to be a Qualified
management and business Accountant to fulfil Section 151 Legislation.
transformation projects.
The main duties of the Section 151 Officer
• Strong commercial understanding with are:
experience of managing entire budgets
• Professionally qualified Accountant to
at a senior organisation level.
fulfil section 151 obligations.
• Supporting, coaching and influencing
• Ensuring lawfulness and financial
both your team and senior colleagues
prudence of decision making.
and peers.
• Administration of financial affairs.
• Effective change leadership, planning
and negotiation skills. • Contribution to corporate management.
• Excellent communication, influencing • Providing advice.
and relationship management skills.
• Providing financial information.
• Able to communicate a compelling
vision to key stakeholders internally
and externally to achieve operational
Other
outcomes. In addition to the above responsibilities, you
may be required to undertake additional or
• Business acumen from creating a other duties in order meet the needs of the
commercial environment where the force, as may be determined by the Chief
management of cost and customer Constable.
satisfaction is paramount.
• Proven ability to manage a challenging
workload and plan for the future.
• Previous experience of leading
professional staff and optimising
performance.
• Ability to travel within SYP and
occasionally throughout the country.
10 SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE • DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES APPLICATION PACK 2020How to apply
For further information, please contact Chief Constable
Stephen Watson on 0114 252 3401 or Nigel Hiller, current
Director of Resources on 0114 252 3435 or 07768 145614.
To apply for this post (see p.9) please submit a CV and a covering
letter, by 16 February 2020 to recruiting@southyorks.pnn.police.uk.
Shortlisting will take place shortly after with a view to interviews being
held in March 2020.
Please note, there will be a number of assessments associated with the
selection process, including:
• CV highlighting suitability for the role
• Cover letter highlighting how you meet the criteria for our ideal
candidate (no more than two sides)
• Leadership Assessments (these will be available online for you to
complete remotely)
• Meet the team – a brief chat with peers and direct reports
• Panel Interview – Chief Constable Stephen Watson, OPCC Chief
Executive Michelle Buttery, Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts and
the Assistant Chief Officer, Durham Constabulary Gary Ridley.
Applicants must meet the minimum checkable history criteria, which
must be taken into account for all individuals applying to work with
South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history
period of five years has been identified for this role and successfully
undergoing the appropriate National Security vetting procedure is a
pre-requisite of employment in this role.
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