Senior Digital Service Owner

383334

£57,297 – £65,031

Permanent

DSTL – Operations Division – Digital

Digital
Governance

Annualised hours, Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking, Part-time

2

Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wilts, SP4 0JQ or Dstl Portsdown West, Fareham, PO17 6AD

Are you a Senior Service Owner looking for a new challenge?

If so, join Dstl Digital to be responsible for establishing and implementing the strategy of the service portfolio. The service portfolio includes Cloud and Hosting, Communications and Collaboration, Engineering and Research, Enterprise IT, Software, and Workplace IT. You will ensure the end-to-end delivery, governance and quality of these services to agreed service levels.

Why Dstl Digital? You will be supported by collaborative, hard-working digital professionals, access the wide range of Dstl benefits and work for an organisation delivering cutting-edge science.

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

In this role you will:

• Run the operational and continuous improvement of digital services.
• Be the point of escalation for IT Digital Services.
• Take accountability the end-to-end management and governance of digital services.

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Leadership

As a leader in Defence you will help shape, role model and bring to life the ‘One Defence’ mindset that will enable us to deliver our vision and strategic objectives. Your leadership style must be inspiring, confident and empowering. Working at every level of our organisation to break down silos, unite teams and create a culture that is trusting, collaborative, innovative, diverse and inclusive. Enabling us to deliver with pace and agility through the skills, commitment and empowerment of our employees and military colleagues.

Safety at Dstl

• You must appreciate and be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others;
• You will drive and influence a proactive and positive health and safety culture whereby everyone is empowered to report their concerns, no matter how small, and to stop work where they feel it is unsafe;

About you:

• You will be experienced in working in agile, at a strategic level and implementation to an operational level
• You will have led and managed multiple IT Digital services meeting quality and contractual standards.
• You will have experience of delivering IT digital services through different resource models including internal, contracted workers and third-party contracts.

Interested? Find out more in the candidate pack attached to Civil Service Jobs.

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

If you are a current Dstl employee you must ensure your line manager is aware of your application and the potential situation regarding release dates, if successful and a start date is not agreed it could result in the job offer being withdrawn.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:

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  Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.

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  Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).

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  Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.

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  Where you work: Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.

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  Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.

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  Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid

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  Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.

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  Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.

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  Pension Alongside your salary Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes a minimum of £15,558 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides

Open to UK nationals only.

This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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