Digital Director

Job Description

Digital DirectorApplication closing date: 18/01/2023 at 23:59This is a full-time, permanent role. You will be entitled to 33 days of annual leave plus 8 days bank holidays.A bit about the role...Working closely with Adrian Tucker, our Chief Data & Digital Officer (CDDO), to deliver the mission of the agency the Digital Director will lead provide senior leadership to our Digital function to ensure we deliver a first class, digitised approach to everythingwe do.Homes England Digital supports the ambitious "levelling up" strategy of the agency by supporting the development and deployment of Digital solutions in order to drive efficiency and ensure customer needs are met through innovative technology.Digital is also responsible for the delivery of a three year (now in year 2) Evolve programme, which is slated to delivery cross agency digital solutions and removing inefficiency from the agencies process to enable us to continue to deliver the above servicesand react more quickly to new requests.As a senior member of the Digital leadership team the Digital Director will lead a team of Assistant Directors to delivery the Digital agenda and ensure stakeholders get timely delive of their business needs.This role will support the CDDO leading overall Digital strategic planning to achieve business goals by prioritising information technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future digital products throughrobust and pragmatic governance principles.The Digital Director will stand in as the CDDO as necessary and attend senior board and programme meetings. The Digital Director will act as a role model for inclusive, inspirational and engaging senior level leadership to ensure that the Digital team aredelivering on their strategic aims by ensuring a smooth transition to the Agency being Digital led. This will be achieved by creating the right culture and conditions to empower people to work across organisational boundaries, in multi-disciplinary teams,in service of our strategic priorities.In addition to sustaining relationships to facilitate an Agency wide, transformed digital service the Digital Director will promote new ways of working and technology-enabled innovation, driving and building sustainable digital capability across the Agency,supporting our priorities and developing a culture which is able to build, attract and retain talent across the function.The Agency is going through an exciting period of transformational change and the Digital Director will play a critical role in this by ensuring the efficiency, delivery and good governance of the Digital strategy.A bit about the role...You will be an inspirational leader of multi-disciplinary, high-performing, and motivated teams and possess a strong commitment to diversity and inclusivity. You will have significant experience of leading organisations through technical change in an inclusiveand empathetic way.The successful candidate will have very strong experience of managing sizeable strategic digital change agendas whilst delivering good governance and value for money.You will possess a demonstrable track record of leading a digital function and a senior level and delivering performance improvement within a complex, fast paced and ambiguous environment.You will have significant strategic experience in digital culture change with a track record of driving and delivering commercially focussed, innovative approaches.With a proven track record of successful stakeholder management at an executive and board level, the successful candidate will have the confidence and resilience to lead an organisation subject to public scrutiny whilst transforming its offering.This role will be suitable for somebody who is looking for next step in their Digital career.Who we are...We are the Governments national regeneration and housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country as well as tackling the physical property regeneration needed by so many places to maximise opportunity.We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Governments ambition to deliver quality, green and safe homes and fulfil its levelling up regeneration agenda. We are using our land, influence, funds,and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliveragainst these aims were building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 in 2020/21 Homes England secured notable housing outcomes including supporting 35,183 completions (Revised target: 37,771), unlocking land capable of providing 170,276 new homes (Revised target: 199,430), supported64,793 households into home ownership (Revised target: 45,137) and enabled 37,224 starts on site (Revised target: 27,668). We have achieved this through the commitment and passion of our people.What we offer... We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to hybrid working. Well support you, wherever possible so that you dont miss out on what matters to you.If you do ever need a little bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment and so new colleagues can be based almost anywhere, providing that their commute to their relevant base office is reasonable when we come back together. Colleaguewell-being is our top priority.

Keyskills :
Information TechnologyRegenerationTransformational