DV Cleared Senior Civil Servant - Inside IR35

DV Cleared Senior Civil Servant - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: MOD JFC

Location: London

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The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.

To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.

Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim. 

As a Senior Civil Servant, your main responsibilities would be: 

• Develop and maintain the Digital and Information Technology (D&IT) strategies for each of the functions and for their collective contributions to Defence.
• As a member of the 3* D&IT Functional Coherence Board, contribute to the development and delivery of the Digital and IT functional strategy. 
• Work with senior leaders in each function to understand and influence the functions’ business strategies and ensure the underpinning digital capabilities are fully integrated.
• Understand the business outcomes of each function and the enabling high-level user requirements. Ensure these are reflected in future digital and IT investments.
• Create and sustain a prioritised digital road-map for future investments together with the strategic framework to allow value optimisation.
• Drive exploitation of existing and new D&IT capabilities to deliver business simplification and maximum business value.
• Understand and assess the opportunities from emerging digital technologies to provide challenge to the business on different ways of working.
• Act as champion for technology-driven innovation and keep connected to technology leaders in the market place, as well as the MOD’s CIO innovation team.
• Ensure business readiness and capacity for change related to the Technology tier of the MOD Transformation programme.
• Design and implement performance management governance regimes, to be used at the 3* Coherence Board and at senior management meetings within each of the 3* functional areas, that underpin the delivery of the portfolio of investment programmes.
• Ensure all new digital and IT investments are aligned with the Defence ICT Design Authority.
• Represent the Functions and be “the voice of the customer” in the IT shared services organisation (ISS) on shared information capabilities and ensure such needs are delivered in line with customer expectations; provide options that could help shared services drive efficiency of supply side costs.
• Ensure information exploitation and data democratisation is leveraged to the fullest to enable the functions to become data driven organisations
• Ensure the user community are sufficiently “digitally savvy” and trained to fully exploit current and future digital and IT technologies
• Act as the Senior Information Risk Officer (SIRO) across the Functions to manage information and IT related risks and the trade-offs versus business value delivery; ensure comprehensive risk mitigation plans are in place and being managed.
• Actively manage cross Government relationships for best practice sharing the digital agenda for functions linkage to other Government departments.
• Manage financial delegations, expected to be £30m over 10 years, and to work with functional to develop strategic business cases requiring investments of up to several hundred £million.

You’ll have:

• Valid and Active DV Clearance
• Significant experience in shaping and delivering the Digital and IT strategic agendas for large complex enterprises.
• Stakeholder management - ability to communicate ideas and solutions clearly and enthusiastically to a full range of stakeholders, from corporate CEOs through to digital IT specialists.
• Critical thinking and problem solving - finding better ways to solve problems and logically identifying and analysing how different approaches can be used.
• Proven track record of leading complex organisations through digital and IT to enable business change.
• A clear passion for and understanding of the emerging digital technologies and the business possibilities they unlock.
• Collaborating - working with others in cross functional and pan-organisational teams to create solutions.
• Experience of working as an IT professional within enterprise enabling functions (e.g. HR; finance; Commercial) would be an advantage.
• Experience of working in both the private sector and other government departments would be an advantage.

If this Senior Civil Servant role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with one of our PSR team now.

"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.