Service Manager

SERVICE MANAGER, DISCLOSURE SCOTLAND

Role / Reference: Service Manager / TB0016

Client: Disclosure Scotland

Assignment Location: Disclosure Scotland, 1 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DZ

Rate: Market rate

Contract Length: 12 months

Application Process: If you are selected to go to the next stage you must be willing to complete an application form detailing how your skills and experience meet each of the Essential Skills and Experience in the bulleted list below.

Deadline for submissions: 17/07/2019 at 12:00

Security Clearance Required: SC (Security Check) client will offer sponsorship

Required Start Date: 26/08/2019

Working Arrangements: The specialist is expected to be on-site for at least four days a week with one day optional working from home.The specialist will be expected to attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Skype, Google Docs, Confluence, Jira).You will have strong demonstrable experience in communicating with both technical and non-technical colleagues. You will work alongside and support the Service Owner and Lead Architect in ensuring Disclosure Scotland has a fully managed, secure and successful service.

Role Summary
We are looking for an exceptional IT Service Manager with a balance of technical understanding and strong leadership skills who has proven experience in leading and managing an IT Service Desk.
Responsible for setting the vision and strategy for service management, ensuring processes are defined, owned and maturing. Responsible for developing capability of the existing team and getting them to a point where they are performant and self-sufficient. Knowledge transfer and experience of mentoring and building teams is absolutely essential. You will provide direction and technical leadership to DS and be responsible for successfully transitioning our Service Management capability from our delivery partner.The role involves working collaboratively in DS and across other government departments in Scotland and the UK. You should have an understanding and experience of agile delivery methods.

Essential Skills & Experience

• You will have experience of and ability to build a team. You will be excellent at mentoring current staff. You will be able to transfer your expert knowledge to individuals.
• An expert in managing relationships between stakeholders.
• Ability to ensure that disparate suppliers and vendors come together to deliver Disclosure Scotland's Service.
• You will have experience of an evidential approach to understanding users and their needs. Able to translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet needs.
• You will be a strategic thinker. Able to have an overall perspective on business issues, events, activities and an understanding of their wider implications and long-term impact
• You will have an in-depth understanding of Service Management Framework principles and processes and ability to apply the technical knowledge in project or programme activities.
• You will be able to visualise, articulate, solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information.
• Takes ownership of problems and proactively resolves technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet business requirements
• Ability to take management information and consolidate agreed key performance indicators into product or service measures that underpin service management of a specific product or service.
• Be able to build a high performing team where all team members are clear on their roles and responsibilities
• In addition to above, please send CV to  DS_PMO_Mailbox@disclosurescotland.gov.scot by 17th July midnight

 Desirable Skills & Experience

• Asset and configuration management
• Experience of configuration management
• Service Improvement
• Demonstrable experience of service improvement