Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager

Ad Warrior Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

DVSA seeks a Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager to join our governance team across multiple locations including Leeds and other cities. You will lead the end-to-end digital spend approvals, chair governance forums, and provide authoritative advice on governance, risk and controls to inform senior decision-makers.

You will develop relationships with stakeholders, drive a positive assurance culture, and ensure documentation and processes align with cross-government requirements,

Qualifications

• Experience in assurance, compliance or governance to inform decision making.
• Experience setting standards and processes to enable monitoring quality.
• Experience in project, programme or portfolio delivery.
• Line management experience.
• General management and business change experience.
• Experience giving sound and authoritative advice and support.
• Presentation and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end process for digital spend approvals within DVSA, ensuring compliance with internal, GDS and wider cross-governmental assurance requirements, providing expert advice and guidance, and leading on continuous improvement.
• Lead governance lifecycle for key digital forums, including preparation and running of meetings with high-quality materials and facilitation support.
• Set direction for engagement, delivery and continuous improvement of our service offering to the portfolio and ensure it is well communicated.
• Ensure a programme of compliance and assurance reviews at key milestones to meet internal and external requirements.
• Devise and run training and information workshops on Digital Governance tools and methodologies.
• Own DVSA Digital Governance guidance, ensuring alignment with requirements and up-to-date documentation.
• Demonstrate leadership, influence, and integrity, upholding the Agency's reputation, and foster a positive assurance culture.
• Encourage professional behaviours and provide a safe environment to raise concerns.
• Collaborate with colleagues across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high-performing Agency.

Skills

Governance

Assurance

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Project management

Leadership

Education

Certificate of Risk Management

PRINCE2 Foundation

MSP Foundation/Practitioner

Agile awareness

Job description

Overview

Ref: 414742

Salary: £45,900 per annum

Location: United Kingdom -England -Yorkshire and the Humber -West Yorkshire -Leeds

Type: Permanent

Closing date: 25 Oct 2026 23:59

Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager

Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham(Garretts Green) or Uxbridge.

Salary: £45,900 per annum

Do you have experience in building trusted relationships with stakeholders, influencing senior leaders, and providing clear, practical advice on governance, risk and controls?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We're looking for a Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager who will help our team to provide the insight and assurance that enables informed decision-making across DVSA. Working closely with senior leaders and colleagues across the agency and wider government, you'll champion a positive governance and assurance culture, support effective risk management, and ensure digital decision-makers have the right information at the right time to protect and enhance our vital public services.

You'll be our lead on specific deliverables within the team, including managing our digital spend approvals process, delivering key digital forums, and providing advice and guidance to colleagues on our processes.

Job description

Our team purpose is to use insight from governance, risk and control to bring clarity so that decision makers in DVSA can make informed choices.

The role holder will support the Head of Digital Governance to develop the right relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring Governance is seamless and supportive.

You will engage confidently with senior leaders, and Project SROs in DVSA, championing the assurance principles and values and encouraging a positive, transparent assurance culture across the Agency, by providing sound assurance advice on governance, risk and appropriate controls and seeking to improve business control processes and reporting.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues within DVSA and externally across government to be the first point of contact on digital governance and assurance related issues and information, ensuring that decision makers are informed and are taking account of the right information at the right time and responding to risks to ensure that DVSA's service provision is maintained.

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

• Own the end-to-end process for digital spend approvals within DVSA, ensuring compliance with internal, GDS and wider cross-governmental assurance requirements, providing expert advice and guidance, and leading on continuous improvement in alignment with digital and other functional direction.
• Lead the governance lifecycle for key digital forums, including the preparation and smooth running of digital forums and meetings, ensuring high-quality materials, robust preparation and effective secretariate and facilitation support where required. Deputise for the Head of Digital Governance in chairing governance forums where appropriate.
• Set the direction for colleague engagement, delivery and continuous improvement for our service offering to the portfolio. Work with the other leaders to ensure the service offering is up to date, fit for purpose and well communicated within and outside of the team.
• Ensure a programme of compliance and assurance reviews take place at key milestones to meet internal and external requirements ensuring that activity is resourced adequately.
• Devise and run training and information workshops on Digital Governance tools and methodologies; to raise awareness of best practice methodology.
• Own DVSA Digital Governance guidance ensuring this aligns with relevant internal and external requirements, and ensuring that all documentation is reviewed and updated as and when required to meet best practice requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction and guidance to support the delivery of objectives. Establish a strong direction and a persuasive future vision for digital governance, managing and engaging with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
• Encourage professional behaviours as well as performance and identify where development is required as well as regularly recognising when good work has been achieved. Provide a safe environment to escape concerns from the team to respond to appropriately or escape to the Head of Digital Governance if required.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

Person specification

You may hold or be willing to work towards the following qualifications:

• Certificate of Risk Management, or equivalent
• PRINCE2 Foundation level or equivalent
• MSP Foundation or Practitioner level, or willingness to work towards
• Agile awareness or equivalent, or willingness to work towards

Required experience

• Experience of being in an assurance, compliance or governance function to help inform decision making
• Experience in setting standards and processes to enable and monitor quality
• Experience of project, programme or portfolio delivery
• Line management experience
• General management and business change experience
• Experience of giving sound and authoritative advice and support
• Presentation and facilitation skills