Information Digital Officer
| Posting date: | 10 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,418 to £44,428 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2024 |
| Location: | Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1RQ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | West Sussex County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | CRS00873_1728553796 |
Summary
The Opportunity
Salary: £41,418 to £44,428 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time 37 hours per week
Location: Hybrid, smarter working - Power Place, Chichester and working from home
Interview date: 15th November 2024
We are thrilled to share that the Council is diving into a major digital transformation! Our focus is all about our residents and colleagues, and finding the best ways to deliver the services you need. As a team that's all about innovation, we're eager to seize the chance to modernize the foundations of our digital, data, and technology offerings for the future.
And guess what? We have an exciting new position available for an Information Digital Officer to come aboard and join us on this incredible journey!
We are investing in digital capabilities, new partnerships, new infrastructure, and in development of an organisation wide information architecture. To secure the best outcomes we are seeking to enhance tooling and most importantly to invest in and further develop our people. Everything we are doing is for one purpose, to deliver our commitments to the wider Council Plan.
As an Information Digital Officer, you will act as a lead professional for the use of a subset of digital tools and specific systems configuration.
Working through agile methodologies and with effective oversight and control of the technical solutions, you will undertake the analysis, design, development and automation of various digital interactions.
What are we looking for?
- Demonstrable analytical skills, including gathering and defining requirements, business process mapping, workflow mapping, and benefits realisation/mapping.
- Strong problem-solving skills with appreciation of business architecture, delivery management, and IT&D solutions design.
- Attention to detail in written and numerical contexts, with broad awareness of common technology concepts.
- Ability to oversee and manage small programmes of technology change within a one-to-three-month time horizon.
- Contribute to monitoring and benchmarking of processes and systems to deliver efficiency savings.
- Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration with technologists, service managers, stakeholders, and end users/customers.
- Self-starter with ability to measure workload and priorities to ensure timely deliverables.
- Capability to make judgements around quality/timing and negotiate with IT Services stakeholders and customers.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for Us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see ourStaff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further Information
The reference number for this role is CRS00873.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Sarah Bullard (Information Architect) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.
For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.
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