Independent Football Regulator – Supervision Manager

Job summary

The Independent Football Regulator

The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve.

The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection.

The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.

Job description

About the role

We are looking for a Supervision Manager to join the Independent Football Regulator (IFR). The supervision function sits at the heart of the IFR undertaking core regulatory activity. It will also be a focal point for managing the IFR’s relationship with the clubs it regulates.

You will act as the Head of Supervision Office at a Manager grade. It is a senior role central to the whole supervision and enforcement operation. It will act as an interface between the Director/Deputy Directors and the wider organisation including CEO and Chair office, attending internal and external meetings, deputising as appropriate.

You will ensure that the full suite of supervisory and enforcement governance structures and committees (including Supervision Senior Leadership Team and the Supervision Committee) run with operational excellence. Along with the Deputy Directors, you will also be responsible in helping maintain day to day operational grip in managing teams to strict SLAs through overseeing timely reliable management information, robust processes and controls and following up actions.

You will also be responsible for ensuring the Director and Deputy Directors' workflow is prioritised and decisions are made in a timely manner based on the right information. In addition they will also have responsibility to oversee budget monitoring and provide oversight, guidance and direction to the wider team as needed.

They will need to ensure close working with data, policy, legal and enforcement teams so that supervision plays its part in the wider organisation’s objectives and the functions listed above support supervision in the most effective, joined up way.

Person specification

Essential Requirements

• Outstanding leadership capabilities, with experience of managing, coaching and developing teams in a high-profile and changing environment as the leader of the Deputy Director and Director's office.
• Excellent judgement, with strong political awareness, strategic prioritisation and ability to quickly identify and implement change.
• A great communicator who can build strong trusting relationships with a wide range of senior stakeholders with the ability to produce high-quality outputs tailored to a wide range of audiences
• An effective decision maker, excellent organisational skills and detail orientated
• Strong experience in governance, with experience shaping and managing senior decision-making forums that advances supervisory priorities and directorate-wide objectives.
• Outstanding personal resilience, with the ability to apply agile working and experience in motivating and challenging stakeholders in a fast-moving environment with a range of competing priorities.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of financial regulation and prudential supervision.
• Experience working within a regulator, central bank, or a regulated financial institution in a risk or supervisory function.
• Experience in private offices as private secretary in public institutions.
• Experience in crisis management.

Benefits

If successful you will join a Non Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant.

If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension.

The terms and conditions of employment include:

• Pension 12% An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.
• Flexible Benefit 8% Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax)
• Reward we will have a performance based reward programme.
• 31.5 days annual leave
• Flexible and hybrid working, 40% in office attendance
• Occupational sick pay
• 9 months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave.
• A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees
• Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following documents:

➔A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the "Job History" section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form.

➔A Statement of Suitability (max 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed however these will not be considered in the assessment of your application except in circumstances where there are a high number and calibre of candidates.

For the shortlist, we will select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.

In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial sift will be conducted on the statement of suitability. Those who are successful in the initial sift will then be scored on all elements of the application.

The interview process will assess experience through competency questions and a presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, length of time, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.

Prior to the interview you will be sent the competency questions in advance. The questions will be based on the essential criteria listed on slide 7

Your interview will take place remotely via Teams.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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.

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 : Joe Alford
• Email : careers@footballregulator.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : careers@footballregulator.org.uk

Attachments

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