About us:
Southwark Council are investing in our community. We believe our residents deserve the best from their council. To that end, we are committed to delivering our digital transformation agenda which will transform the services we offer to our residents.
As an experienced Head of Digital Delivery, you will create and continually develop our digital vision whilst managing digital transformation change across our organisation and shared services to ensure the successful delivery of the council’s Modernise Strategy
About you:
You will be key in developing relationships at a senior strategic level to enable us to continue our delivery of new and innovative technology that will enable us to revolutionise the way we deliver services to our community.
Our vision is for IT to be a valued business partner, providing innovative services to our residents and staff. As a solutions and business focused Head of Digital Delivery, you will manage a multi-disciplinary team of 20 across programme management, business change, business partnering and technology functions to ensure successful delivery of our programmes. You will work with your team to understand how we can exploit technology, explore emerging technologies and innovative solutions that will allow us to invest and create better online services for our community.
You will bring to the role extensive, relevant knowledge and experience of digital and IT best practice including:
- Strong background in working at a senior and strategic level to drive digital transformation across a large and complex organisation and ideally some experience of shared service environment
- Strong understanding of digital technologies and how these can transform complex services
- Strong leadership and management experience with proven experience of building and developing teams including technical, projects and change teams
- Strong stakeholder management at all levels with internal and external partners with the proven experience of developing strong relationships across organisation boundaries
- Experience of acting in a change capacity with a passion for harnessing technology to improve organisational effectiveness and meeting user needs.
You will be a self-motivated and dynamic individual who is able to challenge and influence others, develop and maintain collaborative working relations across IT and business departments;
Proven inter-personal and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to act at a senior level internally and externally.
Southwark Council is located in busy, Central London and as a location it offers something for everyone! Join us and you’ll work in an organisation that is looking to break the mould and drive real change for the digital age.
As an employer of choice, we offer a great benefits package including:
- Competitive salary range from £59,049 to £74,139 plus an additional financial 'cash' benefit of £2,724 per annum pro-rata (starting salary dependent upon experience)
- Career Average Pension Scheme
- 33 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Flexible working
Recruitment timetable:
Closing date: Thursday 18th July 2019
Interview date: Monday 29th July 2019
How to apply:
Please do not submit your application through this website. For more information on how to apply and why you should join us please get in contact with Amanda Whicher at Hays on 020 7259 8746
For more information about this vacancy, or to view other vacancies with our organisation, please visit our dedicated recruitment website click on the link here
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