Digital and Data Team Leader
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £49,313 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | UK |
| Company: | JNCC Support Co |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 202415 |
Summary
Post background
Digital and data delivery and innovation is central to achieving JNCC’s strategy by 2030. The Digital and Data Solutions Team is key within this space, supporting the organisation to generate robust, high-quality data that underpins our projects and functions. The team also supports delivery of a wide range of digital solutions to guide complex thinking and policy setting. The team is made up of five core functions: data protection, information management, data engineering, application development and technical project management. The successful candidate will work alongside another team leader to manage the team and their diverse and dynamic portfolio of work.
There will be opportunities to get involved in exciting work areas including working with cutting edge environmental data such as use of satellite imagery for change detection; designing data pipelines and automation for JNCC’s indicators; and ensuring that the organisation’s information management policies and procedures are fit for the scale and shape of JNCC.
JNCC is now on the midst of a significant period of change to adapt to these opportunities:
• Improving the efficiency of storing, integrating, and processing large datasets to produce key indicators.
• Migrating from legacy internal server infrastructure to make much greater use of the cloud for storage and sharing of documents and data. This is partly driven by the cyber security strategy and partly to enable more effective remote working. The work includes improving the use of MS technology to streamline existing corporate processes and governance.
• The storage of information and data on JNCC’s infrastructure is becoming increasingly siloed and divergent making it very challenging to locate resources across the organisation and ensure appropriate long-term archiving. This is being compounded by the incremental movement to Cloud storage.
• Continuing to enhance data protection policies and processes to meet imperatives from Defra and ICO.
• Providing support and assistance to JNCC for the development and implementation of applications and systems
The co-team leaders will have responsibility for overseeing these transformations including managing the structure of the team to enable it to provide a robust service to provide support across these functions into the medium term.
Post Duties - The post will:
• Co-Lead the Digital and Data Solutions Team. This includes building a team culture, ensuring the skills of the team and its individuals are fit for purpose, that appropriate direction is given for priorities, that workloads are manageable and fulfilling, performance is managed and corporate requirements for management are met.
• Direct and develop the Team’s projects to ensure a good fit with other work within JNCC and support the delivery of the organisation’s strategy.
• Manage internal and external customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Continuously review how the work can be evolved and improved to meet the challenges of the strategy and resource levels.
• Ensure Team Leader responsibilities for planning and reporting, quality and governance are carried out effectively.
• Work with Directors and other team leaders across JNCC to influence the direction and plan JNCC’s work and ensure an optimal fit of the work within this.
• Be an effective member of senior management.
Technical - To be a successful candidate you will be/have:
• Specialist knowledge and experience in two of the following areas:
o Data engineering
o Application development
o Digital project delivery
o Information management, including the setting and refining of organisational policies to ensure effective internal processes;
o Data protection
o Data management and governance
Experience (Responsibilities) - To be a successful candidate you will:
• Be able to strategically apply specialist knowledge and experience to develop and lead a technical strategy for the organisation; identify potential opportunities and understand the precise requirements of others.
Behaviours
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
Please see the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf
In the event that we receive a large volume of applications we reserve the right to conduct the sift based on the Lead Behaviour of Leadership
Digital and data delivery and innovation is central to achieving JNCC’s strategy by 2030. The Digital and Data Solutions Team is key within this space, supporting the organisation to generate robust, high-quality data that underpins our projects and functions. The team also supports delivery of a wide range of digital solutions to guide complex thinking and policy setting. The team is made up of five core functions: data protection, information management, data engineering, application development and technical project management. The successful candidate will work alongside another team leader to manage the team and their diverse and dynamic portfolio of work.
There will be opportunities to get involved in exciting work areas including working with cutting edge environmental data such as use of satellite imagery for change detection; designing data pipelines and automation for JNCC’s indicators; and ensuring that the organisation’s information management policies and procedures are fit for the scale and shape of JNCC.
JNCC is now on the midst of a significant period of change to adapt to these opportunities:
• Improving the efficiency of storing, integrating, and processing large datasets to produce key indicators.
• Migrating from legacy internal server infrastructure to make much greater use of the cloud for storage and sharing of documents and data. This is partly driven by the cyber security strategy and partly to enable more effective remote working. The work includes improving the use of MS technology to streamline existing corporate processes and governance.
• The storage of information and data on JNCC’s infrastructure is becoming increasingly siloed and divergent making it very challenging to locate resources across the organisation and ensure appropriate long-term archiving. This is being compounded by the incremental movement to Cloud storage.
• Continuing to enhance data protection policies and processes to meet imperatives from Defra and ICO.
• Providing support and assistance to JNCC for the development and implementation of applications and systems
The co-team leaders will have responsibility for overseeing these transformations including managing the structure of the team to enable it to provide a robust service to provide support across these functions into the medium term.
Post Duties - The post will:
• Co-Lead the Digital and Data Solutions Team. This includes building a team culture, ensuring the skills of the team and its individuals are fit for purpose, that appropriate direction is given for priorities, that workloads are manageable and fulfilling, performance is managed and corporate requirements for management are met.
• Direct and develop the Team’s projects to ensure a good fit with other work within JNCC and support the delivery of the organisation’s strategy.
• Manage internal and external customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Continuously review how the work can be evolved and improved to meet the challenges of the strategy and resource levels.
• Ensure Team Leader responsibilities for planning and reporting, quality and governance are carried out effectively.
• Work with Directors and other team leaders across JNCC to influence the direction and plan JNCC’s work and ensure an optimal fit of the work within this.
• Be an effective member of senior management.
Technical - To be a successful candidate you will be/have:
• Specialist knowledge and experience in two of the following areas:
o Data engineering
o Application development
o Digital project delivery
o Information management, including the setting and refining of organisational policies to ensure effective internal processes;
o Data protection
o Data management and governance
Experience (Responsibilities) - To be a successful candidate you will:
• Be able to strategically apply specialist knowledge and experience to develop and lead a technical strategy for the organisation; identify potential opportunities and understand the precise requirements of others.
Behaviours
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
Please see the CS Behaviours framework for more details at this grade:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717275/CS_Behaviours_2018.pdf
In the event that we receive a large volume of applications we reserve the right to conduct the sift based on the Lead Behaviour of Leadership
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