We are partnering with a prominent public sector organisation seeking to appoint a highly experienced Director of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT).

Please apply if you have experience working within public sector organisations.

Role Summary:

This role will provide strategic, technical and professional expertise to deliver a complex Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) agenda, maximising the use of resources within your remit, setting and achieving key performance indicators and break-even budgets, and maximising outcomes through productive sustainable delivery.

This role will lead on major strategic projects, in conjunction with other Directors and Executive Leadership Team, acting as SRO for programmes and projects undertaken where appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a large, diverse workforce, you will lead, inspire and develop colleagues across a range of disciplines in continuous improvement utilising user centric design methodologies, in addition to building and maintaining effective trusted relationships with external clients and key stakeholders.
• You will develop and maintain strategies and plans to drive professional excellence including compliance with government professional standards.
• You will be responsible for leading and operationally managing the development, implementation, and improvement of your business area, including overall responsibility for service delivery.
• You will promote a high-performance culture across DDaT, also leading on designated Directorate and organisational wide developments which cut across both organisation and service boundaries.
• With a forward thinking, commercially minded and collaborative approach, you will lead on maximising and optimising the performance of all services, within your portfolio, define and deliver an ambitious strategy.
• You'll champion efficiency, continuous improvement and customer centric innovation to enhance service impact and oversee governance, risk, and compliance with a strategic and ethical lens, balancing ambition with responsibility.
• Lead IT service management following ITIL best practices, driving service improvements across the organisation.