We are currently working with a Local Authority in Devon who are looking for a Deputy Director of Transformation & Business Services to join their Digital and ICT team.
Job: Deputy Director – Transformation & Business Services
Duration: 3 Months
Start date: ASAP
Rate: Candidates to confirm rate upon submission
Site presence: Hybrid working role
Responsibilities
- Lead and transform our digital, technology and information services across a complex and ambitious organisation ensuring they are aligned to organisational priorities, resilient to risk, and capable of supporting modern, agile service delivery
- This is a pivotal leadership role, combining operational oversight with strategic innovation, and offers a rare opportunity to shape how technology enables services, supports our workforce, and improves outcomes for residents across the Authority
- Be fully aware of every aspect of the Director’s priorities in order to drive through service improvement and business transformational change
- Oversight of Transformation and Business Services functions, with specific responsibility for the strategic management of ICT Operations, Cyber Security delivery and Scomis Business Unit
- Oversee an annual budget of approximately £5m, with influence over wider directorate and organisational investment decisions
- Influence corporate strategy and contribute to the Council’s approach
- Ensure robust, secure and sustainable digital foundations that enable transformation at pace
Experience
- Substantial and successful experience of managing large digital and ICT operations, projects, programmes and budgets bringing a wealth of technological experience
- Evidence of leading and directing complex services across digital and ICT services
- Strong Strategic leadership capability and experience across large, diverse and complex organisations, in a challenging and changing business environment
- Substantial management experience of strategy and policy development, and management of operational services at a senior level
- Ability to work across a complex, multidisciplinary, and sometimes ambiguous landscape
Should this position be of interest to you, please apply or send an email with an updated copy of your CV to gfry@venngroup.com and myself or a member of the team will give you a call to discuss further
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