Strategic Performance Lead – (6-Month Contract)

Strategic Performance Lead – (6-Month Contract)

Division – Operations

Department – Strategy

Salary – National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £90,000 and London £79,300 to £100,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Strategy Department sits at the heart of the FCA. We inform and drive the delivery of the FCA's Strategy and provide central oversight of delivery on behalf of our Executive Committee and the Board. We facilitate prioritisation and business planning decisions and ensure the organisation measures and reports its performance against agreed outcomes. 

Are you interested in joining a small and friendly team where you will play a vital role in shaping how we measure and report how we are performing against the FCAs Strategy.

What will you be doing?

You will be driving and improving the FCA's performance and measurement approach and also play a key role in the development of the next phase of measuring our performance against the FCA's strategy. This role includes setting out an approach for leading indicators and activity metrics and you will support and advise FCA colleagues on both causal chains and logic models to enable the setting of leading indicators. This role also involves the effective reporting and communication of our performance against the strategy outcome metrics and leading indicators to our executive committee and the board. You will also contribute to the technical leadership to help continuously improve our approach.

You will collaborate and work across the organisation to ensure that key data is accurate and collected efficiently. In addition to this, facilitating the agreement of roles and responsibilities across internal stakeholders (including senior levels) and ongoing ways of working across the organisation to support effective measurement. This role may include mentoring and overseeing the work of more junior members of the department.

What will you get from the role?

• Your work will be both varied and demanding. You will have a rare opportunity to understand and help shape the FCA’s strategic direction

• You and your outputs will have a high exposure across the FCA. You will work closely with a wide range of internal colleagues, including senior FCA decision makers

• You will have excellent opportunities to develop knowledge of the breadth of work across the FCA and how strategic decisions are made

• You will have strong ownership of your work and be empowered to lead on delivery. You will work in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment, with a strong focus on continuous improvement 

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Experience of setting and measuring strategic outcomes in the public sector  

• Experience of the causal chain / logic model approach to evaluation  

• Experience of performance measurement, including indicator selection, direction/target setting, reporting, developing monitoring and evaluation or performance monitoring  

Essential

• Ability to build rapport, constructive relationships, make a strong personal impact and persuade with well-reasoned arguments.  Ability to present and influence (at all levels)  

• Ability to understand and communicate the strengths and weaknesses of different data sets  

• Practical understanding of the strengths and pitfalls of using KPIs to measure strategy execution  

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, minority ethnic, disabled, and neurodivergent candidates for our Technical Support role.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

• Private healthcare with Bupa 

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35) 

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary 

• Income protection 

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Level 5 Technical Specialist – Regulatory

• This role is available to external candidates as a 6-Month Fixed Term Contract or to internal candidates as a secondment/ acting-up

• Advert Closing Date: 1st May

• CV Review/Shortlist: w/c 5th May

• First Round Interview: w/c 12th May

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: Cameron Nunn on [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.