Digital Capabilities and Onboarding Manager

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution (28.97% of salary

25 days annual leave

8 bank holidays plus King's Birthday

Flexible working options

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeking a delivery-focused leader within the Digital & Data Directorate. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams across Tech Services, delivering changes and new technology while ensuring business requirements are met within deadlines.

The role emphasises collaboration with stakeholders and other managers, providing project support across projects and driving performance and sustainable capability in DVSA's technology services.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering digital/IT projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Ability to balance competing priorities and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate delivery management skills to multi-task within tight deadlines.
• Communicate clearly between technical and non-technical partners; host discussions in a multidisciplinary team.
• Plan team requirements, allocate resources and prioritise activities to meet business objectives.
• Collaborate with managers across functions to build a high-performing Agency.
• Provide project support for larger projects, including action point logs and meeting minutes.

Skills

Delivery management

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Resource planning

Job description

This role will work with in the within the Digital & Data Directorate within the Delivery and Services Team. You will lead multi-disciplinary and matrix managed teams across Tech Services specifically in Infrastructure and User Services. You will deliver small scale changes to existing technology, or the introduction of new technology. These projects could include Tech Refresh and business application implementation. Successful delivery will be underpinned by ensuring in-scope business requirements are delivered within time constraints. This is a critical role in the context of building sustainable capability to operate, support and improve technology services. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King's birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

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Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to:

• Demonstrate effective delivery management skills to multi-task within tight deadlines.
• Communicate effective and clearly between the technical and non-technical partners/stakeholders. Support / host discussions within a multidisciplinary team.
• Determine and plan their team requirements, including allocating resources and prioritising activities, over the short to medium term by fully understanding the business environment in which the team operates, the overall team objectives, ensuring their team fully understands and works to these requirements.
• Work in collaboration with other managers across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.
• Provide project support for larger sized projects such as chasing and updating action owners for action point logs, risk logs etc. Secretariat support such as minutes and output notes. Leading on small but defined strands of work contained within a larger project.