[ref. b54568024] Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme Director
UK Parliament
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Staff Benefits
In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:
- 30 days' annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).
- Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Access to training and development.
- Flexible working.
- Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.
The Team
The Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) is a parliament-wide response to allegations of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct in the parliamentary community. The team provides essential support to the operation of this important, high-profile service and its continued evolution.The ICGS team is a bicameral service.
About the role
As the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme Director, you will be responsible for providing the ICGS team with outstanding, developmental leadership, ensuring that the Scheme undertakes fair, timely, rigorous and effective investigations and that its investigators produce high-quality reports.With a remit to continuously improve the scheme, you will play an important role in retaining the trust and confidence of the parliamentary community through delivery excellence first and foremost, but also through substantial stakeholder liaison, including attendance at formal parliamentary committees and boards, and through high quality communications about the scheme.
What we are looking for
With experience of having developed workplace or investigation schemes in response to legislative or cultural change, you will bring a strong technical skill set to this role, with experience of overseeing investigations in similarly scrutinised environments.With a public service value set that informs your approach to delivery and improvement, you will bring an understanding of the political and legal context in which both Houses work, an ability to identify and mitigate risk, and an awareness of evolving cultures and events that are shaping communities' expectations of conduct and working cultures.
The role requires the ability to operate at the most senior levels of public life and comes with a significant element of Parliamentary and public scrutiny and challenge. We are consequently seeking an individual who is a proven leader and effective communicator, who operates with independence, excellent judgement, and the utmost probity.
How to apply:
GatenbySanderson is assisting Parliament in the search for this role. For further details and information on how to apply, please click the below link:
GatenbySanderson - Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme Director - UK Parliament
Applications will need to be submitted directly to GatenbySanderson by Thursday 27th March at 9 am.
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