G7 Strategic Partnerships Lead

Job summary

The Strategy Hub sits at the heart of HM Land Registry’s Customer and Strategy Group, ensuring HMLR is led by and delivers Strategy 2025+. Through developing and maintaining the strategy, connecting strategic insight, external partnerships and delivery activity, the team helps the organisation shape and respond to major changes in the property system.

As Head of Strategic Partnerships, you will lead the delivery of HMLR’s strategic external partnership programme, translating strategic partnership and property system reform priorities into practical plans and outcomes. You will provide leadership across complex, high-profile collaborative delivery work involving government, industry and internal stakeholders.

You will be responsible for ensuring HMLR’s external partnership activity is strategically aligned, well governed and focused on measurable impact. This includes managing internal and external relationships, balancing priorities and trade-offs, overseeing delivery roadmaps and performance, and providing clear advice to senior leaders on HMLR’s involvement in external partnerships. Acting as the bridge between strategy and implementation, you will ensure external partnership collaborations directly support HMLR’s current Strategy and wider government priorities.

A key current priority for the role is leading delivery planning, governance, risk management, reporting and coordination for HMLR’s contribution to the Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG) and related property system reform activity.

Job description

As Head of Strategic Partnerships, you will lead a small team working with stakeholders across HM Land Registry (HMLR), government and industry to manage and deliver through key strategic relationships and partnerships that support HMLR’s critical strategic objectives and drive positive transformation across the property system.

A key focus of the role will be acting as Senior Responsible Owner for the Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG), working closely with policy colleagues in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to ensure delivery of the Group’s published strategic commitments.

You will provide leadership across a complex network of stakeholders, ensuring partnership activity is effectively planned, governed, delivered and reported. Working with government, industry and internal partners, you will help shape and deliver programmes of work that support property system reform and wider government priorities.

You will:

• Lead delivery of HM Land Registry's contribution to the Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG), ensuring activity is effectively planned, governed, delivered and reported.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, overseeing milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and outputs aligned to HMLR, MHCLG and wider government priorities.
• Provide senior leadership across the DPMSG network, aligning priorities, managing dependencies and supporting collaborative delivery across government and industry partners.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with DPMSG members and external stakeholders, acting as a trusted adviser on digital property policy and reform activity.
• Support the DPMSG Chair and work closely with MHCLG colleagues to deliver published commitments and drive property system reform.
• Coordinate contributions across HMLR teams and external partners, ensuring responsibilities, commitments and dependencies are understood and effectively managed.
• Lead the planning and delivery of partnership initiatives, including workshops, delivery boards, working groups, pilots and other collaborative activities.
• Provide clear reporting, advice and recommendations to senior leaders and governance groups, using insight to inform decisions and escalate strategic issues where required.
• Contribute to the Strategy Hub Senior Leadership Team, strengthening links between strategic partnerships, HMLR colleagues, senior stakeholders and the HMLR Board.
• Line manage and develop a small team, supporting performance, capability, wellbeing and the delivery of business plan objectives.

This role offers an opportunity to work at the centre of strategic partnership delivery, influencing property system reform through collaboration with senior leaders across government, industry and HM Land Registry.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will have the following Technical Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience of leading delivery of complex programmes, projects or portfolios involving multiple stakeholders or organisations, with the ability to establish governance, develop plans and oversee delivery, manage risks and dependencies, benefits monitoring and ensure agreed outcomes are achieved.
• Ability to interpret complex external, political, policy and stakeholder intelligence, draw strategic conclusions, and translate these into clear advice, options and recommendations for senior decision-makers.

You will also have:

• A strong track record of managing high-profile external partnerships, programmes or stakeholder networks involving senior internal and external stakeholders, with evidence of securing commitment, aligning priorities and delivering agreed outcomes.
• Experience of operating confidently with senior leaders, including Directors, Board members or equivalent external senior stakeholders, providing clear advice, recommendations and challenge to support strategic decision-making.
• Experience of leading and developing teams to deliver complex projects or programmes, including setting direction and plans, managing performance and delivering through both direct line management and matrix leadership
• Ability to turn strategic objectives and work with others to turn them into practical delivery activity, milestones, products and outcomes.
• Strong judgement and ability to take ownership of complex issues, managing risk and trade-offs, escalating where appropriate
• Flexible and able to work at pace, sometimes to tight deadlines or under pressure, and to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to communicate complex policy, stakeholder and delivery issues clearly and succinctly for senior and non-specialist audiences.

Due to the nature of the role regular travel to other HM Land Registry offices will be required, including some overnight stays.

For more information about the role and the full Person Specification, please see the attached Job Description.

Please note you will be required to work a minimum of 30 hours per week in this post.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £64,059, HM Land Registry contributes £18,557 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

To apply, you will need to complete the short application form and copy and paste your CV onto the online application form detailing your skills/experience and work history.

Your CV will be assessed against the essential technical criteria detailed in the attached Job Description.

The Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words) should be used to outline your wider skills and experience for the role and detail how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• A strong track record of managing high-profile external partnerships, programmes or stakeholder networks involving senior internal and external stakeholders, with evidence of securing commitment, aligning priorities and delivering agreed outcomes.
• Experience of operating confidently with senior leaders, including Directors, Board members or equivalent external senior stakeholders, providing clear advice, recommendations and challenge to support strategic decision-making.
• Ability to turn strategic objectives and work with others to turn them into practical delivery activity, milestones, products and outcomes.

In the event of a high volume of applications for this vacancy, an initial sift will be conducted on ''A strong track record of managing high-profile external partnerships, programmes or stakeholder networks involving senior internal and external stakeholders, with evidence of securing commitment, aligning priorities and delivering agreed outcomes'' and a full sift only carried out on those applications that pass the initial sift stage.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend an interview. The interview will be conducted either virtually or face-to-face, with the format to be confirmed, from week commencing 12 October 2026.

You will be required to deliver a pre-prepared presentation at your interview and further details will be provided on invitation to interview.

The blended interview will assess the essential technical skills, experience and behaviourslisted in the Job Description.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage may be invited to attend an interview. If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Candidates should be aware that any travel expenses incurred when attending interviews for this role will not be covered by HMLR.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa.

You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Nick Boddington
• Email : Nick.Boddington@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Attachments

G7 Strategic Partnerships Lead Job Description Opens in new window (pdf, 178kB)