Senior Digital Strategy Officer

Manchester City Council is recruiting a Senior Digital Strategy Officer – Digital Infrastructure Lead to help drive forward Manchester’s digital infrastructure and connectivity ambitions. 

This role will lead and coordinate key activity across the city’s Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Action Plan, helping Manchester take a more strategic, consistent and proactive approach to digital infrastructure. This includes fixed and fibre connectivity, mobile infrastructure, operator engagement, digital infrastructure governance, and the integration of connectivity considerations into housing, planning, highways, regeneration and development activity. 

High-quality digital infrastructure is essential to Manchester’s future. It supports economic growth, regeneration, digital inclusion, housing, public services, business investment and the city’s wider ambitions to be inclusive, sustainable and resilient. This role will help ensure Manchester has the foundations in place to support residents, communities, businesses and public services now and in the future. 

You will act as a key coordination point for digital infrastructure activity, working across Council services and with external partners to improve visibility, strengthen governance, support operator engagement and help move activity from reactive, case-by-case responses to a more strategic, portfolio-led approach. 

This is not a purely technical telecoms role. It is a strategic delivery, coordination and partnership role for someone who understands how digital infrastructure connects to place, growth, inclusion, regeneration and public value.