Head of Digital - Manchester, United Kingdom - Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £54,395 - £63,405
  • National £54,395 £63,405, + benefits

Job grade:


  • Grade 6
  • Grade A (U)
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DCMS
  • Digital Infrastructure
    Type of role:
  • Analytical
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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About the job


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Location

  • Belfast, Darlington, Loughborough, ManchesterAbout the job

Job summary:

Thank you for your interest in this role. It is an exciting opportunity to shape the analysis that influences the UK's digital policy.

You will work closely with policy colleagues to help develop policy options, ensuring that evidence and analytical thinking is at the heart of policy and strengthening our evidence base.


This will include:

  • Continuing to establish and develop a robust evidence base on the impacts of the digitisation of the economy
  • Assessing, understanding and evaluating the likely and proposed effects of policy options and programmes, such as regulation of digital markets.
  • Acting as a challenge function and identifying problems and opportunities for policy through research and analysis.
  • Understanding the tech sector and its role in supporting growth and inclusion in the economy, including through digital skills.

Job description:


If you are inquisitive and excited about analysis and using it to drive policy decisions in fast moving policy areas, then we would love to hear from you.

You will lead a team of multi-disciplinary analysts and will be a core member of the senior leadership team, setting a strong inclusive, creative and collaborative culture.

Job Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of 11 mutlidisciplinary analysts to produce timely, impactful and succinct analysis.
  • Lead close engagement from you and your team with policy colleagues to ensure analysis is at the heart of policy development.
  • Represent the department across Whitehall on analysis of international/digital issues.
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning and development in the team, encouraging regular engagement with external experts.
  • Take an active role in the senior leadership team, enabling a diverse and inclusive culture to flourish.
  • Keeping apace with the analytical research frontier on digital issues.
  • Leading the team to produce robust and timely Impact Assessments, Business Cases and Evaluations to ensure policy options represent value for money.
  • Playing an active role in the department's analytical community.

Person specification:


Essential requirements:


  • Strong analytical experience, with sound judgement when under pressure and a track record of bringing analysis right into the heart of policy making
  • Highly effective oral and written communication skills with the ability to distil complex analytical issues down to their key insights, judgements and recommendations
  • Proven ability to lead high performing, inclusive, creative and collaborative teams to deliver strong outcomes across a range of work streams and areas
Desirable skills

  • Knowledge of the digital economy and digital and tech policy
  • Membership of a government analytical profession such as Government Economic Service, Government Social Research, Government Statistical Service is useful but not essential

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Leadership
  • Working Together
  • Communicating and Influencing

Benefits:

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. We're committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department.

To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:


  • Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working
  • DCMS
staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home.

  • 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years' service.
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
  • 3 days of paid volunteering leave.
  • Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave.
  • Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year.
  • Occupational sick pay.
  • Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks.
  • Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work.
  • Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
  • A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have
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