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On behalf of ONS, we are looking for a Senior Planner INSIDE IR35 for a 6 months contract based REMOTELY with occasional travel in Newport

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

As a Senior Planner , your main responsibilities will be to:

• Provide visible leadership and specialist expertise to mature planning capability, delivery discipline, and predictability across a complex, multi-partner programme environment.
• Lead the development and embedding of a single, integrated planning approach across delivery partners, ensuring consistency of standards, assumptions, and controls.
• Establish and maintain a clear, outcome-focused view of delivery, aligning scope, milestones, dependencies, and benefits to enable confident decision-making and transparent reporting.
• Set and enforce best practice planning standards, tools and governance, driving a step-change in planning maturity and ensuring these are consistently applied across all contributing teams and suppliers.
• Act as the authority on planning quality, challenging assumptions, strengthening estimation practices, and improving the robustness of forecasting and delivery confidence.
• Provide leadership to identify, manage and resolve cross-cutting risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring that interdependencies between partners are actively managed and do not undermine delivery outcomes

Essential:

• Well-rounded planner with experience developing and managing programme plans across multiple delivery partners, including technology workstreams.
• Ability to work across a range of stakeholders and delivery partners, ensuring alignment and integration of plans across the programme.
• Comfortable working in evolving environments, helping to shape structure and direction while bringing clarity within digital programme settings.
• Public sector experience

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, ONS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

ONS guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".