Associate Delivery Manager - Government Digital Service - SEO

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

This role is available on a permanent basis or on a 2 year secondment/loan, if you have a preference please let us know on your application.

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

1. joining up public sector services
2. harnessing the power of AI for the public good
3. strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
4. elevating leadership and investing in talent
5. funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
6. committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

GDS is part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employs more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need and protecting the security and prosperity of the nation.

Job description

The mission of the National Security Digital Centre within GDS is to accelerate delivery of shared digital and data outcomes by bringing the National Security data and technology community together and connecting it to the centre of the Public Sector - with a focus on the unique problems and challenges for national security.

The NSDC has complementary Data and Technology missions. The data mission focuses on driving National Security outcomes by unblocking the challenges to exploiting our data at speed and scale across wide-ranging intelligence, defence and security communities. We connect the UK’s ambitions and priorities to the data and technological environments needed to fulfil them – ensuring that we aren’t solving tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s tools. We are part of the NS community as well as the cross-government Digital and Data function, aligning defence and security with best practices across the public sector.

As the Associate Delivery Manager for the NSDC you’ll:

• Provide the delivery expertise and support to ensure the NSDC data mission is a high-performing team which can flex and adapt to current and future priorities
• Build a deep understanding of the challenges of data interoperability in national security, and how the team is working to mitigate them
• Help the team develop and articulate their goals and outcomes into a coherent and deliverable plan, against which progress can be measured
• Identify and capture requirements for work by commercial suppliers, and steer the process of bidding for resources, setting contractual outcomes and monitoring progress to ensure value for money
• Co-ordinate the activities of the team, supporting a productive, purposeful and supportive team culture in a hybrid, multi-location working environment
• Ensure team plans, deliveries and challenges are visible, accessible and fed into NSDC, OCTO and GDS reporting channels as required
• Provide a proactive, informed and goal-oriented secretariat function for key NSDC delivery and governance groups such as the Data Interoperability Group and Data Expert Advisory Group.
• Build contacts and NSDC presence and influence in critical networks, including national forums and defence and intelligence partnerships

Person specification

We’re interested in people who:

• have experience of using skilled delivery management to create the right environment for motivated, collaborative teams
• can understand and manage dependencies in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments, helping teams overcome blockers and adjusting priorities and requirements accordingly
• can work effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues and enhance mutual understanding, supporting difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders
• show curiosity and enthusiasm for coaching organisations to enable digital transformation, through adopting data processes which may be radically different from traditional public sector ways of working
• Can demonstrate understanding of data management fundamentals and their application to business problems