APPLICATION FORM

CONFIDENTIAL APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT

The Royal Parks is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users of its services. Recruitment and selection decisions are made purely on merit as the result of fair and open competition. We are committed to equality of opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and do not discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or responsibility for dependants, age, physical/mental disability or offending background.

PLEASE NOTE: The Royal Parks (TRP) and the charity The Royal Parks Foundation have agreed they should become a new single organisation to fundraise for and manage the capital's eight Royal Parks. Both organisations plan to join within a new charitable public corporation.  A detailed plan has been worked up, and work is ongoing but it is hoped the new organisation will be established from 1 March 2017. The new organisation will be a charitable public corporation with increased freedoms and flexibilities to manage the parks more efficiently.

If the above takes effect from the proposed date, staff joining TRP before 1 March 2017 will be civil servants but after that date their status will change as TRP will be moving out of the civil service to a new charitable status.  Staff terms and conditions will be protected on transfer.

The closing date for this application is Wednesday, 30 th November 2016 .

Tip: You can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move between fields. Once completed, please email your form to vacancies@royalparks.gsi.gov.uk with the job title as the subject, we don’t require a hard copy as well.

1. JOB POSITION

Position applied for: Information Manager

Grade: II

Vacancy reference: IM1116

2. PERSONAL DETAILS

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Title: Please select:

Surname:      

Forename(s):      

Address:      

Postcode:      

Daytime telephone(s):      

Email Address:      

Do you have a full current driving licence? (If required by the job description)

Please select:

Are you currently a Civil Servant? Please select:

Have you ever been a Civil Servant? Please select:

At what stage are you applying? Please select:

3. EDUCATION

A) Secondary Education

School name/address From

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Examinations (subject/result, etc.)

                       

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B) Further Education and Training

University/college name From

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Type of

Course

Subjects Qualifications or class of degree

                                   

C) Occupational Qualifications/Institute Membership/Membership of Professional Organisations

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College/Institute

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4. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Please provide details over the last 10 years, including any unpaid or voluntary work, listing present or most recent employer first. Any gaps in employment dates should be explained. If you have any particularly relevant experience dating beyond the last 10 years please include this.

Current salary and benefits or salary when last employed:

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Name and address of employer and type of

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Job title and main duties

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5. REASON FOR APPLICATION – Skills, Qualities and Experience

In this part we want you to highlight your skills, qualities and experience. The competencies relevant to the post you are applying for are listed in the Person Specification on the job description enclosed below. For those competencies listed below, please give specific examples in no more than 200 words for each heading about a time either at work, volunteering or in your personal life that demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria required to do the job. You must ensure that your answers provide clear evidence of the given competency.

Making Effective Decisions: Monitor the storage of business critical digital data to support risk decision-making, and conduct regular reviews to ensure that it is stored in a manner which upholds data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.     

Collaborating and Partnering: Identify opportunities to share knowledge, information and learning within and beyond the organisation, and encourage forward focus by working with colleagues from the IT/RM team and throughout TRP.     

Collaborating and Partnering: Work closely with the IT Delivery Manager and senior managers to improve RM practices where appropriate.     

Leading and Communicating: Excellent written communication skills, appropriate to writing FOI responses and RM reports.     

Managing a Quality Service: Work with the IT/RM team to set priorities, create and 4

advise on project/strategic plans and manage work to meet the needs of the customer and the business.     

Delivering at Pace: Set and achieve challenging goals independently and monitor quality, e.g. delivering requests under the FOIA within the appropriate time limits.      

6. PERSONAL STATEMENT

This is your opportunity to tell us why you think we should select you and why you want the job. Here you can demonstrate how your experience meets the other role competencies in the person specification attached. You may also include personal interests which are relevant and meet the requirements of the post. You must use no more than 350 words.

     

7. ATTENDANCE RECORD

If you wish to comment on any extended absences from the office, please do so here.

     

8. PART TIME

If you are part time, please state the number of hours that you are able to work and also please confirm if you would consider job share.

9. REFEREES

Please provide the contact details of referees from your employment over the past 3 years.

Please note that your present employer and other referees will not be contacted without your prior consent.

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Referee 1 Referee 2Name:       Name:      Address:       Address:      Postcode:       Postcode:      Occupation:       Occupation:      Email:       Email:      Telephone No:

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Referee 3 Referee 4Name:       Name:      Address:       Address:      Postcode:       Postcode:      Occupation:       Occupation:      Email:       Email:      Telephone No:

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10. DECLARATION

By submission of your form, you agree to the following:

I confirm that the information given on this form is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and accurate. I understand that if I have given misleading information on this form, this will be sufficient grounds for terminating my employment. I have personally completed the application form.

Name:       Date: Click here to enter a date.

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11. LINE MANAGER’S ASSESSMENT OF SUITABILITY (or Countersigning Officer if Line Manager not available)

If you are currently employed as a Civil Servant you will be required to complete this section in full. Candidates must attach their entire completed application, with section 11 for their line managers to complete. Please also attach your last 2 years' appraisal reports.

External candidates should proceed directly to Section 12.

1) I consider this applicant to be:

Highly suitable Suitable Unsuitable I am unable to judge

Please comment on your assessment drawing attention to the applicant’s experience/special qualities for the post. If you are unable to judge the applicant’s suitability, please give reasons:

     

To be completed only if applicant is applying for trawled post on promotion.

2) Do you consider the applicant to have the skills and experience to perform at the higher grade they have applied for?

Yes No

Please comment on your promotion assessment:

     

Name:       Grade:       Date: Click here to enter a date.

Line Manager/Countersigning Officer for Please select: years and Please select: months

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12. DIVERSITY FORM (this will be detached from your application by the HR Dept)

Section A: Your Details

Title: Please select:

Forename(s):      

Surname:      

Date Of Birth:      

Male Female

Gender Identity (optional): If you identify as transsexual or transgender (in that you have effected a permanent change of gender identity) or as inter-sex, which group do you identify with?      

How did you learn of this vacancy? Please select:

If ‘Other internet site’, ‘Recruitment Agency’ or ‘Other’, please specify here:      

Section B: Disability

The Royal Parks wish to encourage suitably qualified people with disabilities to apply for jobs. All information will be treated in strictest confidence.

Do you consider that you have a disability? Yes No Prefer not to say

What is the nature of your disability?      

Please give details of any special needs or requirements that you may need us to make if you are invited to interview/offered employment:      

Section C: Religion or Belief and Sexual Orientation

Which religion or belief do you most associate with? Please tick one box only.

No religion Buddhist Christian Hindu Jewish

Muslim Sikh Any other religion Prefer not to say

Which sexual orientation do you most associate with? Please tick one box only.

Bisexual Gay Man Gay Woman/Lesbian Heterosexual/straight

Other Prefer not to say

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Section D: National Identity

Which National Identity do you most identify with? Please tick one box only.

British English Northern Irish Scottish

Welsh Other (please specify if you wish)       Prefer not to say

Section E: Ethnic Identity

Which Ethnic Background do you most identify with? Please tick one box only.

ASIAN OR ASIAN BRITISH:

Bangladeshi Indian Pakistani

Any Other Asian Background (please specify if you wish)      

BLACK OR BLACK BRITISH:

African Caribbean Any Other Black Background (please specify if you wish)      

CHINESE:

Any Chinese Background (please specify if you wish)      

MIXED ETHNIC BACKGROUND:

Mixed White and Asian Mixed White and Black African Mixed White and Black Caribbean

Any Other Mixed Background (please specify if you wish)      

WHITE:

Any White Background (please specify if you wish)      

OTHER ETHNIC BACKGROUND:

Any Other Ethnic Background (please specify if you wish)      

Prefer not to say

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Thank you for completing these forms, please now email your final application and diversity form to vacancies@royalparks.gsi.gov.uk with the job title as the subject

Job Title: Information Manager

Location: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London, W2 2UH

Grade and Salary: Grade II (Exec), £25,340 - £30,880

Additional Requirements: successful candidates must meet security requirements before appointment, or be willing to undergo the clearance process. The level needed is Security Clearance (SC).

Important Functional Relationships:

Archive Officer; IT Delivery Manager; Information Services team; FOI Director (Deputy Chief Executive); HQ directorates and Park staff

Important External Relationships:

The National Archives; Department of Culture, Media & Sport; Information Commissioner’s Office

Main Purpose of the Job:

TRP is undergoing a period of significant change, and requires a knowledgeable and committed Information Manager to ensure that the organisation continues to uphold data protection best practice. The Information Manager supports the IT Delivery Manager and Head of IS in the creation of new Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) and data security policy, response to information requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and the management of TRP’s electronic records/filing structures.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

Statutory requirements, KIM policies, and communications

Manage obligations under the Public Records Act, the FOIA, Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) and the Data Protection Act (DPA)

Manage and deliver effective responses to requests (FOI, EIR, DPA, Subject Access Requests, etc)

Review records management policies in the context of TRP’s changing needs, liaising with external bodies, delivering new written policies

Ensure individuals’ personal information is used only in accordance with appropriate legislation, in the context of the implications of the GDPR

Work with the IT Delivery Manager to create new policy and alter working practices to:

o Support the requirements of the GDPRo Reflect the status of TRP when it becomes a new organisation

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With the IT Delivery Manager, liaise with the Royal Parks Foundation to support the collaboration of the two organisations on data management and protection.

Line management of the Grade I Archive Officer, responsible for the paper archive

Give colleagues access to information in a proportionate and secure manner, managing digital access rights and overseeing the Archive Officer’s dissemination of paper records

Dispose of all information assets securely, following best practice and legislative requirements

Promote awareness of HMG’s document classification system, reviewing for the new organisation

Assist with relevant projects, advise on business cases and identify impacts of system changes, e.g. providing advice to the Landscape Architecture team regarding the development of TRP’s Building Information Management system.

Technical specialism

As the System Administrator and staff trainer for the HPERM electronic records and document management system, provide training to all staff as appropriate

Work with the IT Delivery Manager to assess HPRM and TRP’s shared drives; improve the working of the systems according to user needs, specifically in the context of organisational change

Keep up to date with TNA’s work on e-discovery tools, and work across the public and private sectors on digital archiving in general.

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Person Specification:(Please refer to the competency framework)

COMPETENCIES / SELECTION CRITERIA Essential / Desirable

STRATEGIC CLUSTER – SETTING DIRECTION

Seeing the Big PictureKeep up to date with a broad set of issues relating to the work of TRP, collaborating with the IT Delivery Manager to evaluate the implications of strategic decisions for KIM.

D

Changing and ImprovingUnderstand and apply innovative technology to achieve efficient and effective business and personal results, in the context of the changing face of KIM.

D

Making Effective DecisionsMonitor the storage of business critical digital data to support risk decision-making, and conduct regular reviews to ensure that it is stored in a manner which upholds data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

E

PEOPLE CLUSTER – ENGAGING PEOPLE

Collaborating and PartneringIdentify opportunities to share knowledge, information and learning within and beyond the organisation, and encourage forward focus by working with colleagues from the IT/RM team and throughout TRP.

E

Work closely with the IT Delivery Manager and senior managers to improve RM practices where appropriate. E

Leading and Communicating Confident and effective communication with internal staff at all levels, external consultants and third party suppliers is an important aspect of this job.

D

Excellent written communication skills, appropriate to writing FOI responses and RM reports.

EPERFORMANCE CLUSTER – DELIVERING RESULTS

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Managing a Quality ServiceWork with the IT/RM team to set priorities, create and advise on project/strategic plans and manage work to meet the needs of the customer and the business.

E

Experience with business finance systems from a user perspective, for the generation of invoices, purchase orders, etc relevant to KIM. D

Delivering at PaceSet and achieve challenging goals independently and monitor quality, e.g. delivering requests under the FOIA within the appropriate time limits.

E

See the Civil Service competency framework for further information on civil service competencies.

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