Director for Business, Assets & International - Birmingham

Director for Business, Assets & International - BirminghamAbout the jobJob summaryThis is a Policy Director role in Customer Strategy & Tax Design. The Director is a member of the Customer Strategy & Tax Design Senior Leadership Team reporting to the DG, Jonathan Athow. You will be responsible for taxes on business and assets (including corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, stamp taxes on land and shares and several taxes that apply to particular industry sectors (such as banks, oil and gas companies, residential property developers etc) which together raise over £130 billion for the Exchequer each year. You will also be responsible for a range of tax reliefs designed to support activities such as research and development and the creative industries.The purpose of the role is to lead the design of tax policies that contribute to HMRCs strategic objectives, securing revenue for essential public services, making it easy for customers to get it right and promoting public trust. You will also play an important role in promoting effective international representation and engagement in order to ensure that HMRC is seen globally as a strong international partner and a leading tax authority.Job descriptionKey Responsibilities Leading a directorate of over 480 FTE and ensuring that the right resources and capabilities are in place to deliver a stretching set of objectives, while building an inclusive culture and promoting staff engagement.Working closely with HM Treasury and colleagues within HMRC to develop policies to meet the government's fiscal and policy objectives, to close the tax gap and to improve the health of the tax system.Ensuring that the design and delivery of policy reforms are informed by customer insight and are easy and low cost for customer and HMRC to operate.Acting as regime owner for corporation tax and other taxes, driving HMRCs forward strategy to improve the administration of these taxes.Ensuring high quality input into HMRCs compliance effort to identify and tackle significant tax risks, including leading on high value litigation casesActing as HMRCs lead director on international direct tax work, leading on international tax policy and representation and acting as SRO for HMRCs tax capacity building programme to support developing countries.Making a strong contribution to the senior leadership of CSTD and HMRC more widely, building collaborative and productive relationships with a broad range of senior HMRC colleagues. The ability to build effective relationships with senior HMT officials and advise Ministers is also critical.Person specificationA strong track record of policy leadership, with the ability to work collaboratively to design effective policies in a, complex, fast-paced environmentEvidence of excellent people leadership, with a proven ability to lead teams of technical experts and adept at leading through ambiguityExcellent senior stakeholder management skills, including at ministerial level or equivalent, with the ability to work through challenging issues while maintaining trust and delivering positive outcomesExcellent communication skills ensuring that complex issues are set out in a simple and accessible way that is influential and authoritative. BenefitsAlongside your salary of £115,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £33,315 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously and want to enable you to build a successful career with the department and wider Civil Service.It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you'll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing. As a Civil Service employee, you'll be entitled to a large range of benefits.This includes:25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years' service. This is in addition to your public holidays.This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King's Birthday.Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle.Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours.A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join and where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension.Your contribution comes out of your salary before any tax is taken and will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire.Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.Use of onsite facilities (where applicable).Occupational sick pay.Things you need to knowSelection process detailsFor full details of the Application process please see the attached Candidate Pack belowFeedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise. As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.SecuritySuccessful 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 requirementsThis 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 ServiceThe 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 InclusionThe Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).