Head of Post-16 Education and Skills

You will head up a very high performing team, currently comprising four team members organised across two branches: Further Education, Higher Education; with the central spending control branch (two members) working jointly to you and the pre-16 G6.  You will provide superb leadership to manage and motivate their team to deliver stretching objectives. working alongside the team’s deputy director as part of the SMT that leads the entire Education and Skills team. You will play a pivotal role in working across HM Treasury and with DfE to help implement the recent Spending Review settlement, and to prepare for and help deliver Spending Review 27 due to take place next year.  You will build networks across HMT as well as develop positive relationships with DfE to find common positions and broker agreements.  You will have regular exposure to senior officials, ministers and their political advisors and need to influence them in pursuit of your objectives.