Director, Digital Delivery - Farringdon, United Kingdom - Public Digital

Description

Salary: £80-120k dependent on experience

Location: Hybrid working, London, United Kingdom

Do you work in the field of digital, in the broadest sense? We're looking for both people who consider themselves specialists (such as product owners, service designers, delivery managers or software developers) or generalists (playing a key role in making digital change or delivery happen, such as policy makers, strategists or digital team managers).

At Public Digital, we'll ask you to apply those skills as consultants, but a style of consultancy grounded in lived experience: your lived experience, and the lived experiences of the wider Public Digital team, as well as previous experience within a consulting or coaching role.

Day-to-day, you'll be an advisor and coach, you'll facilitate, convene, write and present as well as leading large, impactful client engagements. You will have specialist skills, you'll sometimes apply those skills directly as a practitioner-coach - showing by doing, whilst helping our clients learn from the skills and experience you have.

We think Public Digital offers a unique opportunity - allowing those with digital skills and experience to amplify their impact. We offer a unique way to learn, working closely, day-to-day, within teams with rich and broad experience different to your own.

You'll be asked to be part of multidisciplinary, multi-functional consulting teams, helping our varied clients with a diverse set of challenges and opportunities. From helping them deliver impactful digital services, researching complex new domains, or make tangible progress with large-scale organisational reform and culture change.

About us

We are Public Digital, a digital transformation consultancy headquartered in London. We help global institutions that matter thrive in the internet era. We apply the culture, processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to help teams build and run excellent services.

Public Digital is growing fast and we are growing our UK & Europe team, bringing in a Director to focus on delivery of projects with our clients in that sector as well as building that market further. Our headcount grew by 55% in 2023, and we have developed lasting relationships with governments and global philanthropic funders. From our beginnings as a digital strategy focused consultancy, we are now looking to grow our capability and capacity to lead delivery projects for clients.

Role overview

We are looking for an experienced leader to run our engagements and grow our business with the public sector. Clients have been an important part of our work for many years. We've worked across local government, charities, government agencies as well as private sector clients, helping leaders to define digital strategy, to turn around major programmes, and implement modern organisational design and practices for more effective digital delivery.

We are looking for someone to deliver consultancy projects with clients across our portfolio. You must have a strong understanding of how to you must have a strong understanding of how to lead change in large complex organisations, preferably including the public sector, and how to implement and grow modern, user-centred and responsive ways of working in teams.

• You will lead our client engagements and build strong, pragmatic working relationships with leaders and digital practitioners in large, complex organisations and institutions.
• You will support organisations to lead in digital and user-centred approaches
• You will work with team members to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• You will extend the reach of PD's reputation and network by representing PD in events, written comms and digital government networks.
• You will also contribute to our rapid growth by generating and developing new leads, and help strengthen our global reputation.
• You will help to contribute to the development and advancement of internal team members by mentoring and passing on your experience.

Requirements

• Your demonstrable experience will make you an excellent leader in this role. You understand how to operate effectively in large organisations. You are experienced working in large complex organizations, ideally within government however this is not essential.
• Experience working within a consultative role, either through a consulting firm, agency or in an in house position would be highly desirable.
• You've led and empowered teams to deliver excellent work.
• You will be willing to travel when needed so as to help deliver some projects in person as well as working in different time zones as needed.
• You have experience of agile and user-centred approaches to digital delivery. You understand how to apply new ways of working in organisations, facilitating teams to build capability, collaborate and become more self-organising
• You're excellent at stakeholder management and comfortable working closely with senior leaders, as a trusted advisor and clear communicator.
• You have a pragmatic and proactive approach to managing and delivering projects, including excellent levels of organisation, prioritisation and delivery management
• You are collaborative, comfortable working in the open, and have an ability to visualise and map concepts and ideas.
• You have excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• You are committed to developing a diverse, inclusive team and culture where people thrive and do excellent work.

Important Note: Although this ad lists out what we look for in candidates, it is likely that we are missing other skills that you may have which could make you a great fit for our business. Research shows that female candidates tend to be less likely to apply to roles where they don't check all the boxes over other genders. What we are therefore saying is if you feel you tick the majority of the boxes we have listed above, we would welcome an application from you as it never hurts to take a chance and apply

Benefits

What's in it for you:

• Opportunity to grow and progress rapidly within an engaged, supportive environment
• Be entrepreneurial and contribute to the growth and success of Public Digital
• Focus on enabling people to deliver high-impact work with leading institutions around the world
• Focus on learning, development and progression
• Ability to build and develop your expertise and profile through publishing blog posts, presenting at events and sharing knowledge and experience
• Be empowered to do your best job
• Home and remote working, flexibility in how you deliver work
• Buddy system and prioritised mental health
• Generous holiday allowance of 30 days, plus an additional office closure over the Christmas period.
• Private healthcare cover.
• Additional Flexible benefits.