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Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead

The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office

As a Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead your main responsibilities will be: 

• Set and gain endorsement for a multi year strategy to improve Digital Workplace and “digital colleague experience” across government.
• Identify and develop existing principles, standards and best practices in Digital workplace and establish methods to share and promote them.
• Work with CDDO’s supplier engagement team and stakeholders to foster meaningful relationships with industry leaders and SMEs to maximise their offer to UK Public Sector, and with Crown Commercial Service in how to leverage procurement to improve colleague experience
• Develop a coherent approach to improving Digital Workplace maturity across government, in line with emerging technology
• Work with contracted suppliers (including third parties and systems integrators) to deliver targeted projects of work, enabling opportunities for system wide change in government digital and data
• Establish, promote and contribute to a Digital Workplace community across UK Public Sector
• Promote your work through content written for GOV.UK, speaking engagements and hosting community events
• Help upskill others in CDDO, Cabinet Office and government in Digital Workplace

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• You must have experience setting vision and leading digital transformation, ideally in the area of large scale digital workplace strategy creation and its delivery.
• You must have expertise in Digital Workplace or related fields (e.g. End User Computing, Infrastructure and Operations, Knowledge and Info Management, Collaboration Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, etc)
• You must have experience designing and embedding technology solutions, standards,  patterns and practices, and be able to use this to build credibility with senior stakeholders and peers and evaluate proposals.
• You should have experience engaging with suppliers/vendors both formally and informally
• You should be comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders, both technical (such as CTOs / CDOs across Government) and non-technical (business leaders).
• Learning should be embedded in the way you approach your working week, and you should be keen to share your experience learning with those around you

If this Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with akanksha.rai@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, The Cabinet Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Cabinet Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.