International Business Manager

College of Policing

Remote

Expires: Expiring in less than 2 weeks

Flexible

£46,108 per year

Job summary

This role is available as a designated homeworking role. Please note, some international travel may be required.

This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

About us:

Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.

Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

Additional Information:

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.

The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process.

Our vetting

If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.

Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.

Job description

As part of the Commercial Development team you are there to provide programme wide delivery management, governance and assurance across the international policing portfolio, ensuring high quality, resilient delivery of training, advisory and capability building programmes. You will lead the integrated planning, service level compliance, reporting and risk framework necessary to meet contractual obligations including those set out in Government to Government arrangements and Statements of Work ensuring continuity, readiness, and operational excellence across multiple concurrent international deployments. relationship building and maintenance are key elements of the role with internal and external stakeholders.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

Design, lead and maintain the ‘Integrated Delivery Plan & Capacity Heat Map’ for all overseas and UK based international activity

Maintain a pre vetted and deployable trainer pool with the CDM, IDMs and Delivery Services. Work with Learning Delivery services for resourcing and scheduling

Lead oversight of all SLA obligations (documentation, trainer replacement, daily reporting, incident response) and ensure performance is ≥98% across the portfolio

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

Level 6 qualification in project/programme management, business management of international operations or equivalent experience.

Experience delivering to contractual requirements in timecritical operational environments

Demonstrable success in risk/issue management, service-level monitoring, operational assurance or PMO leadership.

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

Behaviours

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

Delivering at Pace
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

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

Strategic Leadership
Operational Delivery, planning and risk control
Cross cultural communication and relationship management

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,108, College of Policing contributes £13,357 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits. The benefits we can offer include:

Defined benefit pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
Educational funding and study leave
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Flexi-time (for certain grades)
Flexible working hours
Childcare vouchers
Benenden Healthcare
National Dental Plan
Discount scheme which provides cut-price on-line shopping
Free employee support line
Interest free loans for travel.
Staff networks: You will have the opportunity to join our employee-run networks to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be heard. There are currently 6 staff networks; Diversity Champions, LGBT, Carer’s, Women’s, Parenting and our Diverse Ethnic Action network. Each network has access to an executive level sponsor.

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, Experience and Technical skills.

This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

Vacancy reference: 7084

Anticipated interview dates: 26th and 27th March 2026 the interviews will be held at our Ryton-on -Dunsmore site.

An initial sift based on the lead behaviours Delivering at Pace and Managing a Quality Servicemay be held if a large number of applications are received. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

This role is available for 12 months as a fixed term appointment or as a secondment opportunity to:

colleagues employed directly by the College or the Civil Service. Please note you will be required to obtain the written support of your line manager prior to submitting your application.

Central service conditions may apply.

Please ensure you return the attached secondment approval form either as an attachment when submitting your application or via email to recruitment@college.police.uk

For further information on applying for a secondment please visit the “Secondments into the College” page

For fixed Term contracts:

Whilst this fixed term contract is offered on the understanding that it will only last as long as the stated contract length, there could be a possibility that it could be extended or made permanent should circumstances allow.

Internal applicants who are at risk of redundancy or in need of redeployment and pass the recruitment process, will be given priority over other applicants.

How to apply and contact information:

For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.

What it's like working at the College of Policing

If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please contact Gordon Meir, Head of Commercial Development, Gordon.Meir@college.police.uk

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

Security

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

Open to UK nationals only.

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.

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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Salary range

£46,108 per year