Delivering at Pace is about creating the clarity, resources and performance discipline needed to deliver urgent outcomes without sacrificing quality, compliance or staff sustainability. For a Grade 6 role, this usually means leading delivery across several teams or workstreams, resetting priorities when circumstances change and remaining accountable for the overall outcome.
A strong example should make clear the critical outcome, how you assigned ownership and resources, and how you maintained performance, compliance and morale under pressure. The result should show a major milestone met, service continuity protected, a backlog recovered, quality maintained under pressure or delivery expectations reset before failure occurred.
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What are the Delivering at Pace criteria at Grade 6 level?
The official senior-grade behaviour guidance contains 6 points for Delivering at Pace. Your vacancy may assess only selected parts, but the statement should make the relevant wording easy to see in your evidence.
ensure everyone clearly understands and owns their roles, responsibilities and business priorities
give honest, motivating and enthusiastic messages about priorities, objectives and expectations to get the best out of people
comply with legal, regulatory and security requirements in service delivery
set out clear processes and standards for managing performance at all levels
ensure delivery of timely quality outcomes, through providing the right resources to do the job, reviewing and adjusting performance expectations and rewarding success
maintain your own levels of performance in challenging circumstances and encourage others to do the same
How to structure your statement
Use a simple structure: Situation, Task, Action and Result. Do not place these labels in the final statement unless the application specifically asks for them.
Situation
Use one or two sentences to set the context. State the service, programme, policy or professional area and the problem that made the example important.
Task
Make your accountability explicit. For Delivering at Pace, the task should identify the critical outcome, how you assigned ownership and resources, and how you maintained performance, compliance and morale under pressure.
Action
Give most of the words to the decisions and actions that demonstrate Delivering at Pace. Explain how you used evidence, led or involved others and responded when the situation changed. For this behaviour, keep the action centred on the critical outcome, how you assigned ownership and resources, and how you maintained performance, compliance and morale under pressure.
Result
Show what changed because of your action. A strong result may include a major milestone met, service continuity protected, a backlog recovered, quality maintained under pressure or delivery expectations reset before failure occurred. Use accurate measures where they help, but keep the result tied to the behaviour.
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