Role Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Deliver the cross-HMRC strategy for tackling serious fraud, a high-profile and scrutinised area.
• Shape FIS's response to priority tax risks, ensuring interventions deliver measurable impact.
• Act as the threat lead for fraud, engaging with policy partners across HMRC, government, and internationally.

Performance & Governance:

• Lead teams responsible for capturing, monitoring, and reporting on FIS operational performance at CCG and HMRC levels.
• Establish a governance and performance framework to provide challenge and accountability.

Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) Accountabilities:

• Hold SRO responsibility for Tobacco and MTIC fraud, requiring engagement across Whitehall (Border Force, Department of Health, National Crime Agency) and within HMRC.

Partnership & Collaboration:

• Hold responsibility for a number of partnership relationships with Intelligence Agencies and the Home Office.
• Lead teams working on international collaboration (J5 and GFIP) with public and private sector partners.
• Maintain strong relationships across CCG and HMRC to ensure effective collaboration.

Team Leadership & Culture:

• Directly manage 9 x Grade 6 reports and provide leadership to around 100 staff.
• Accountable for setting out and effectively communicating the desired team culture in line with HMRC's values.
• Ensure that staff feel valued in their roles and that FIS is a great place to work.

Resource Management:

• Accountable for the allocation of paybill budgets and the overall management of the deputy directorate.

Delivery & Impact:

• Deliver your own areas' contribution to the CCG business plan, focusing on improving engagement, reducing absence, managing risk and resource.

Your Opportunity to Make a Difference

• Drive National Strategy: You will be at the forefront of shaping HMRC's approach to combating serious fraud.
• Lead and Inspire: You will lead a significant team, fostering a positive and high-performing culture.
• Collaborate Widely: You will engage with a diverse range of stakeholders at national and international levels.
• Make a Tangible Impact: Your work will directly contribute to protecting public finances and ensuring a fair tax system.

Person specification

• Extensive experience in working collaboratively and setting and agreeing priorities in a threat management context.
• Significant senior stakeholder management experience (both internal and external)
• A working knowledge of criminal justice and/or civil investigations and CPIA Disclosure would be preferable.
• Experience of leading geographically disparate teams as well as delivery of transformational change.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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 know

Selection process details

This campaign is being managed by HMRC's Executive Resourcing team. All a pplications should be submitted via Civil Service Jobs no later than 23:55 on Monday 19 th May 2025 and must include:

• A CV detailing your career history, key responsibilities and achievements accounting for any employment gaps within the last two years.
• A Statement of Suitability (no longer than 2 pages) demonstrating how your experience meets the essential criteria.

Your CV and suitability statement will be assessed against the criteria set out in the person specification. Please include your full name on both documents.

Shortlist

The panel will assess the evidence provided in your CV and statement. Candidates whose applications best meet the essential criteria will be selected for interview.

Assessment

If shortlisted, you will take part in the following assessments:

• Individual Leadership Assessment - a combination of psychometric assessments

Assessments are designed to support the panel's decision making and highlight areas for further exploration at interview and do not result in a pass or fail decision.

Interview

You will attend a panel interview for a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence. This will include a 5-minute verbal presentation (further information will be issued in advance).

Interviews are expected to take place in person at our Stratford Regional Centre.

For more information please refer to the candidate pack.

All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Feedback 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.

Security
Successful 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 requirements

This 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

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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.

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 Inclusion
The 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) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Sarah Hawes
• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly with the department concerned. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

Attachments
Deputy Director Fraud Investigation Services - Threat Management_Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1075kB)