Community Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 304095**Salary**:

- £39,000 - £47,300- National: £39,000 min - £42,900 max. London: £43,000 min - £47,300 max.**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Croydon, Liverpool, Manchester, SheffieldAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm.

The Home Office covers three systems: Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public.

Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) enables the Home Office to keep citizens safe and the country secure, as well as at the front line of making the Home Office a modern and capable department at a time of unprecedented global change.

Within DDaT, the Data Services and Analytics (DSA) team find innovative uses for Home Office data and contains one of the most advanced data analytics centres in Government. We strive to lead the way in appropriate and proportionate use of data and analytics to deliver joined-up, intelligent services that unlock the value from data and improve decision making, policy and operations.
What this means is a daily opportunity to work with teams across the Home Office’s areas of responsibility, from borders, visas and passports, to policing and national security, with some of the largest and most varied datasets and in support of critical national initiatives.

Data Services and Analytics consist of technical and non-technical professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, we are the hub of data expertise within the department. We support our teams with structured learning, both formal and on-the-job, mentoring and feedback.
We embrace diversity and inclusion to ensure we represent the public we serve, and we are passionate about fair treatment and the wellbeing of our colleagues as part of our ambitions to be a brilliant Civil Service.

By joining Data Services and Analytics now, you can help drive forward our aim to become recognised as the leading provider of data insight services in Government.

**Job description**:
We’re looking for someone who’s excited about the Home Office’s role in creating cutting-edge digital services and the opportunity to support the people who build them.

As a Community Lead, you will be responsible for understanding and meeting the needs of our Data community of practice. Working closely with the SCS (Senior Civil Service) Sponsor for Data and Head of Role, you will foster and promote the community, developing and empowering members through knowledge-sharing, training and events. You will also help set and realise the standards and behaviours we all want to see.

You will manage the channels where members share ideas and discuss best practice. You will also organise and run a range of meetings and activities, sometimes working with colleagues in other departments to arrange or facilitate cross-government events.

You will help ensure new staff receive an induction and are aware of community-related resources and activities. You will also identify, develop and oversee training and development opportunities in order to build skills and capability across the department.

You will need to work with senior managers to understand resourcing requirements and support efforts to attract, recruit and retain the people we need. This means you will need to develop strong working relationships with stakeholders across communities and functions to support them with issues relating to workforce planning, recruitment, pay and reward, people and capability development and the sharing of best practice.

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home in line with the Home Office Hybrid Working policy. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow for this role. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions on what this entails.

**Person specification**:
Day to day, you will:

- Work closely with heads within the Data profession to understand and meet the changing needs of the Data community of practice.
- Organise and run meetings and events around the country for Data Analysts, Data Engineers and Data Scientists in the Home Office and across government.
- Actively manage the channels where community members share ideas and discuss best practice, proactively helping members to support and engage with each other.
- Support the Head of Role for Data in managing consistent job descr