Deputy Director, Digital and Data

Title: Deputy Director, Digital and Data

Location: Croydon, Canary Wharf, Sale, Wakefield, Birmingham or Cardiff

Salary: £81,265 per annum (plus London Weighting of £4,968 if based in Croydon or Canary Wharf)

Purpose

The role is a key senior leadership position in the IOPC and will be leading the Digital and Data function across the IOPC. At a time when the organisation is transforming the way it delivers its core business, rationalising its technology infrastructure and aiming to exploit our own data as well as national data sets, this is a critical role at an exciting time for the IOPC.

The postholder is responsible for collaboratively leading the development of the IOPC's Digital and Data strategy, outlining the organisation's ambition for how digital and data is to be used to achieve the organisation's objectives. They will be a critical partner of our operational leaders, anticipating the challenges of investigations, oversight and casework to develop and deliver a technology roadmap that improves our productivity.

This is a high-profile role which requires a technical leader who is a strategic thinker, can work at pace, has the ability to develop a high-performance culture and can effectively manage multiple senior stakeholder relationships across the IOPC at all levels and the wider Digital profession across Government.

The successful candidate will be an exceptional leader with the proven ability to set a strong direction and convey a persuasive future vision at all levels of an organisation. They will provide the key link between the Digital and Data strategy team and the rest of the organisation. Providing leadership to the whole of the organisation to realise the benefits that are possible and planned from digital and data capabilities.

You will be responsible for developing and implementing effective processes, delivery standards and governance ensuring that day to day operations run efficiently, and results delivered - all with the end-user in mind.

You will be a digital champion, with an ability to grow digital capability and talent across the organisation. You will be able to advise with confidence how to utilise digital and technology solutions to ensure successful programme delivery.

You will have a strong focus on leading and developing your team to perform at its best, providing excellent customer service, giving constructive advice and challenge, and acting as trusted advisor.

You will have the ability to engage, influence and form strong working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels. You will have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate a variety of messages to a range of audiences.

The post holder will be expected to gain or hold security clearance to Security Check (SC).

What we Offer:

• 27.5 days paid annual leave (increasing with service to 32.5 days)
• Options to carry over, buy or sell annual leave
• Voluntary Health Cash Plan provided by BHSF
• Civil Service pension
• Civil Service maternity leave package
• PAM employee assistance programme
• Access to Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to enjoy the latest home and electronics in a more affordable way provided by Vivup
• Car Leasing Scheme
• Staff Networks focussed on each of the protected characteristics - run for staff, by staff: Enable Network, Age Network, Welsh Network, Pride and LGBTQ+ Network, Sex and Family Network, Race, Religion and Belief Network
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

The Ideal Candidate:

• An engaging, adaptable, and collaborative leader, with experience of managing multiple complex teams.
• Ability to build strong, inclusive, high performing teams and cross-team working relationships whilst delivering Digital and Data related activities.
• A strategic and inspirational leader who can lead effectively through uncertainty and get the best out of a diverse workforce.
• A strategic thinker with the ability to shape direction in a complex landscape and develop new and innovative ideas whilst maintaining existing service levels.
• A strategic thinker who is able to articulate how technology and AI can deliver benefits to the organisation. You will have experience of simplifying a complex technology architecture to improve our resilience, simplify our support and improve our opportunities for better use of data and knowledge.
• You will have a strong understanding of how better use of our own data, and national data sets, will enable us to generate insights into the police accountability system that magnify our impact on our strategic objective.
• An ability to manage senior stakeholders, both internally and externally, and confidence in dealing with, and influencing, senior officials, and key partners.
• An ability to produce clear and non-technical advice on complex issues, with the ability to articulate risks simply, clearly, and persuasively to senior decision makers.
• Excellent technical skills with proven experience of delivering multiple and varied end-to-end Digital and Data solutions backed up by strong domain knowledge.
• Proven commercial expertise including experience of innovative approaches to sourcing services, and of managing relationships with large suppliers.
• A 'growth' mind-set, combined with a pragmatic and well-disciplined approach to digital delivery.
• Experience of delivering major programmes of work - including those which involve difficult trade-offs and considerable risk.

We believe that diverse perspectives contribute to a more innovative and dynamic workplace. We actively encourage applications from individuals who are typically under-represented or disadvantaged in society. This includes women, people from ethnically diverse backgrounds, parents and carers, and disabled candidates, including neurodiverse candidates.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and supported.

Be yourself:

The IOPC is committed to promoting equality and valuing diversity in everything we do. Our vision is to be, and to be seen as, a leader in inclusive employment and services, demonstrating this ethos in everything that we do.

• We are pleased to share that we are a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. The Charter is composed of five calls to action for leaders and organisations across all sectors.
• Being a Disability Confident employer, the IOPC is dedicating to removing the barriers for disabled people to thrive in the workplace.
• Our Staff Networks are constantly working to make the IOPC the leaders of inclusive employment, from our Allyship Programme to Welsh Language Standards and our Know the Line Policy, we are constantly seeking new ways to create an environment for all to develop and thrive.