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Head of Digital Placemaking Tools, Office for Place

3 months ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Full time

Job summary

Are you interested in how we create and curate the places that surround us? The Office for Place is a newly established non-departmental public body that will develop and share evidence, advice, tools and learning to support the creation and stewardship of places that are beautiful, sustainable, popular, and healthy for all. It has its origins in the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission and publication of the National Design Guide and National Model Design Code which aims to help local authorities and communities decide what good quality design looks like in their area.

The Office for Place will be at the forefront of supporting councils and the wider sector to successfully implement government planning priorities. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new organisation whose objectives are to:

catalyse a fundamental change from within the planning sector and across all levels of government, communities, and the development, planning, and design industries, to secure the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable placeshelp neighbourhoods, communities and public servants working on their behalf, to ask for and deliver new places, and manage existing places, to be popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainablesupport public sector planners and the British design and development industries to be the best place makers in the world aided by improving UK and international data on happiness, health, popularity, and sustainability

The successful applicants will initially be recruited into the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. (MHCLG) and will be subject to a TUPE transfer in the second half of 2024. Terms and conditions for the new organisation are to be confirmed but will be no less favourable than MHCLG. We are currently working in a start-up phase which will require flexibility as we begin to become fully operational and to grow to 24 FTE (Full Time Equivalents) by the end of 2024-25. We particularly welcome candidates from an ethnic minority background and other underrepresented groups to apply, as we work to continually improve our ability to represent all of the places and communities we support through our work. You can find out more about our work here:

Job description

As the Head of Digital Tools, you'll be:

responsible for the delivery of phase 1 of the OfP Digital Strategyscoping and bringing forward the next phases of the OfP digital strategy, including working with the board, MHCLG and other partners to align OfP�s ambition with current delivery priorities within the planning digital spaceworking closely with the Head of Urban Design, support the delivery of phase 1 digital tools, including downloadable design code elements and similar productsworking closely with the communications and executive team, support of the delivery of the OfP website ensuring that the needs of OfP and its core user base are reflected in the final website productleading on the delivery of the design code digital library building on existing work around data standards to bring a product to market that can be used across the industry to create efficiencies in the process of codingworking collaboratively across OfP and with key stakeholders to consistently identify opportunities for OfP in the digital space, and cement OfP�s reputation as both a credible and innovative expert-led voice within the planning & development sectorsupporting OfP officials, the CEO and the board by being the expert voice on planning digital, giving expert steers and advice as and when requested to ensure that the organisation is able to deliver its digital prioritiestaking a leadership role within the Service Delivery Function, leading the digital workstream whilst providing senior leadership to other more junior staff as they build their career at OfP

Person specification

We will use the essential criteria below to evaluate you during the recruitment process. Make sure your CV and cover letter details how you meet the criteria.

As the Head of Digital Tools, you'll have:

experience of working in Digital Planning, within local government, central government or the private sectorexperience of design codes, and design more broadly, at the local authority level, and how digital tools can unlock barriers to well-designed placesexperience of overseeing a delivery strategy for digital productsexperience of working across organisations to bring together objectives and expertise in the digital spaceexperience of handling senior stakeholders, both internal and external, and bringing individuals from a non digital technical background along the digital tool delivery journeyexperience of having a leadership role in a team or on a project, helping seniors to set strategic and delivery direction

Behaviours

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

Changing and ImprovingLeadershipWorking TogetherManaging a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �51,934, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes �14,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an average employer contribution of 27%