Non Executive Directorships

NEDs x2 for Disclosure and Barring Service – Home Office

Location: Home Office

Date Posted: 17/05/2024

Closing Date: 17/06/2024

£10,000 pa – 20 days pa

Do you want to play a leading role in safeguarding children and vulnerable groups?

If so, you can do this by becoming a Non-Executive Board member of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which provides a critical public service by supplying information to employers and other organisations in England and Wales (and barring information only in Northern Ireland), so they can make informed recruitment and licensing decisions, particularly for employers and volunteers working with children and vulnerable adults. The DBS also has responsibility for deciding whether an individual is barred from working with vulnerable groups.

The successful candidates will also possess excellent communication skills, coupled with a personal and professional demeanour that generates trust and confidence in others. They will be able to analyse complex issues and have the ability to constructively challenge and influence strategy and decision making.

Introduction from the Chair

Welcome Note from Dr Gillian Fairfield, Chairman of the Disclosure of Barring Service

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), a non-Executive position on our Board. The DBS is a non-departmental public body of the Home Office. It provides disclosure and barring functions for the workplace and voluntary sector. The services we provide play a vital role in helping employers and voluntary organisations make appropriate decisions when recruiting people who work with vulnerable groups or children.

We are now recruiting for two members to join our board as non-executive directors and help steer the organisation through an exciting period of transformation and change. The first should have experience of driving efficiency, commercial and complex contracting. The second should have experience of organisational transformation, and HR & Organisational Design (including equality, diversity, and inclusion).

Importantly you will enjoy leading organisations through complex issues and will have the ability to constructively challenge and influence strategy and decision making. You will understand and be committed to our vision and will relish the opportunity to continue to set the strategic direction of the DBS, protecting the public by helping employers make safer recruitment decisions and by barring individuals who pose a risk to vulnerable groups from working in certain roles.

If you are motivated to play a key role in helping the DBS effectively discharge its functions and thereby protect vulnerable groups, then I look forward to hearing from you and wish you the very best of luck with your application.

Dr Gillian Fairfield

Role description

Job Title: Non-Executive Board member

Commitment: Part-time, 20 days per year

Remuneration: £10,000 per annum, based on 20 days commitment

Appointment: Three years

Location: National

Reporting to: Home Secretary, through the DBS Chairman

Purpose:

To complement the board of the Disclosure and Barring Service, we are seeking two members with experience of either:

• Driving efficiency, commercial and complex contracting.

• Organisational transformation, and HR & Organisational Design (including equality, diversity, and inclusion).

As Non-Executive Board Members your key responsibilities will be to:

• Work with the Chairman and other Board members in setting the strategic direction for the DBS, and ensure the DBS discharges its statutory duties in line with the requirements of schedule 8 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012;

• Oversee the work of the Chief Executive and the Executive Team in managing the organisation and its delivery programme;

• Ensure that the Executive Team is held to account and systems are in place to enable them to discharge their responsibility effectively, monitoring and challenging performance, finance and management of risk;

• In discussion with the Chairman and the DBS stakeholder plan take a role as appropriate in representing the Board and the DBS in communications with key stakeholders.

Regulation of appointment

This post is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. For more information, please refer to the Commissioner’s website

Person specification

Essential criteria

Evidence of providing effective leadership in an advisory or senior management role, and the ability to participate in the formulation of policies and strategies within a large, multidisciplinary organisation.
Ability to challenge constructively and influence decision making within a Board setting.

Ability to analyse complex issues, particularly around people, financial and commercial management, and provide impartial advice at Board level.

Capability to drive change, improve performance and manage risk.

Ability to think and act strategically, developing practical, innovative and creative solutions to strategic issues.

An understanding of the complexity and sensitivities of the fields in which DBS operate.

In addition to the above, candidates must be able to demonstrate expertise in one of the following areas:

· Driving efficiency, commercial and complex contracting

· Organisational transformation, and HR & OD (including equality, diversity, and inclusion)

Personal Qualities

Committed and goal focused, with the ability to set clear priorities and to contribute meaningfully to Board discussions.

Excellent communication skills, coupled with a personal and professional demeanour that generates trust and confidence in others.

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