Digital Capabilities and Onboarding Manager

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension contribution

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is seeking a delivery-focused leader to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams within the Digital & Data Directorate. You will drive small-scale changes or new technologies, ensuring business requirements are met within time constraints.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, plan resources, and support larger projects with clear governance, minutes, and action-tracking. Flexible working options are available within DVSA.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering IT or digital projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and manage timelines.
• Understanding of business requirements and delivery constraints.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate effective delivery management within tight deadlines.
• Communicate clearly between technical and non-technical partners.
• Plan team resources and prioritise activities to meet objectives.
• Collaborate with managers across functions for DVSA goals.
• Provide project support, logs, minutes, and defined work strands.

Skills

Delivery management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

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.