Job Title: Delivery & Assurance Lead (Professionalism) Band B
Salary: The starting salary is £62,310, which includes allowances totalling £3,009.
The salary is broken down as £59,301 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £72,254. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Westminster, New Scotland Yard and other locations across the Met with a Professionalism presence
Job description:
We are looking for an ambitious and experienced delivery or assurance professional to join the Met’s Strategy, Policy, and Performance Unit (SPPU) within Professionalism. The Delivery and Assurance lead translates organisational priorities into effective business planning, performance, risk and assurance across the Professionalism Directorate’. The role provides strategic leadership to the delivery and assurance team and is a rare and exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the Metropolitan Police, developing your operational and strategic insight into misconduct, vetting and wider police integrity matters, and seeing ambition through to delivery.
The post holder is expected to grasp complex issues quickly and incorporate quantitative and qualitative analytical insight to inform decision-making, often involving oral and written advice to senior police officers and staff in the Met, and to senior decision-makers in other organisations.
You will be key to unblocking difficult delivery issues, and supporting the team, and our senior leaders in working through them. You will engage directly with the most senior leaders in the Met, including the Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, and their Executive Board colleagues.
This role will be based in the Met’s Professionalism Directorate but will also require you to work closely with and alongside other internal teams and operational policing colleagues to help implement and monitor significant change across the Business Group and organisation – building an understanding of the Met and how it works will be critical to helping to reform it.
The Met’s Professionalism Strategy, Policy and Performance Unit has been established to support the Professionalism Chief Officer Group deliver integrity, conduct and cultural reform and drive high professional standards across the organisation, ultimately answering to Assistant Commissioner Rachel Williams. The team are responsible for driving a range of strategic workstreams and projects that support the functioning of a large operational Business Group and contribute to Met’s mission of more trust, less crime and high standards. The Met is a fascinating place to work, supporting our officers and staff to keep Londoners safe, and our unit has an important role to play in doing just that.
On a day-day basis the post holder will be responsible for three broad areas:
- Strategic planning and governance: You will lead the full business planning cycle for the Professionalism Business Group, ensuring all plans are coherent, deliverable and aligned to corporate priorities. Working closely with operational experts, you will draft and maintain key strategies and implementation plans, including responding to internal and external audits and inspections, while ensuring robust governance through clear decision routes, well-structured records, and auditable accountability.
- Delivery and performance oversight: You will oversee delivery of key priorities and services across the Professionalism portfolio, working with experts and operational colleagues to test assumptions, unblock issues and drive progress. Using performance data and MI, you will challenge and improve delivery, identify cross cutting risks and opportunities, and maintain core delivery materials; ensuring governance boards are supported with clear insight, risks, and recommendations. Where such data doesn’t exist, you will be responsible for building out the requirements and working with analytical colleagues to establish success criteria and effective reporting.
- Briefing and Advice: You will lead the drafting of high-quality board papers, strategy documents, briefings and speaking notes for Chief Officers, translating complex and sensitive issues into clear, evidence-based advice – often at pace. You will also support the Deputy Director by coordinating decisions, tracking actions and ensuring timely follow through across governance for a – ensuring that we continue to deliver even when other priorities and issues can draw focus away.
- You will also be a leader in the SPPU. You will have a key role to play in making the team the kind of collaborative, high performing, and safe-to-challenge environment that we want it to be. You will be expected to use your experience and expertise to invest time in your colleagues, and to seek your own development and stretch which you will be supported to do.
Key responsibilities
Working as part of a multi-disciplined team, you will:
- Drive high-quality business group strategic and business planning, building alignment and managing reporting.
- Establish governance and performance management frameworks, to ensure policy and reform initiatives are delivered to agreed timelines, quality standards, and benefits realisation criteria
- Oversee performance insight and reporting by designing dashboards, metrics, and analysis that enable the organisation to monitor progress, identify risk, and make evidence-based decisions.
- Oversee central oversight of Professionalism’s audits / inspection inputs and outputs.
- Oversee delivery of Professionalism’s NMfL 2 key priorities, and business group key deliverables, monitoring progress via governance, performance metrics and evidence, and support unblocking implementation challenges through advice and friendly challenge to delivery leads
- Draft high quality strategic and policy briefings and board papers for organisational governance
- Be a leader within the team, Directorate and Business Group, bringing a can-do attitude and helping to create an empowering and supportive team environment.
Line Management Responsibility: Band Cs as required, although this will remain flexible as our target operating model is embedded.
This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance. If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply button “. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 30th September 2026.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.
