Digital Transformation Senior Adviser

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

- 241379**Salary**:

- £33,736**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- Senior Adviser**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the HumberAbout the job

**Summary**:

- This position is based is based Nationally**Job description**:
The team

The Digital Transformation Team within Natural England acts as the intelligent customer on behalf of Natural England, by signposting advice and guidance, representing the organisation’s interests, supporting colleagues to find technical digital solutions and helping colleagues to access the digital corporate services. We enable Natural England to make the business changes and improvements the Organisation needs to successfully deliver its mission and vision in line with its core values. For complex projects the team provides project management support or hands on technical expertise. The team also has a strategic role in developing strategic digital investment through Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) digital bids on behalf of NE.

Our mission is: “**To empower our people to deliver positive outcomes for nature through digital services”**

Job description

Do you have a passion for nature and the environment? Do you want to make a real difference and secure significant environmental gains in the present and the future? Do you enjoy working in a team? Can you see yourself advising communities and customers to maximise gains for the Natural Environment?

If this appeals to you, a career at Natural England offers rewarding opportunities to secure environmental improvements and play your part in creating a better future for people and nature.

The priority work Natural England is delivering includes:

- Establishing a Nature Recovery Network to help wildlife thrive
- Monitoring environmental changes to identify and help reduce the effects of climate change
- Working with farmers and landowners to develop greener food production methods
- Advising on plans for new developments to maximise gains for nature
- Providing ways for people to better connect with nature, including green social prescribing

We are the Government’s advisor for the natural environment, playing a vital role in delivering the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, an ambitious vision which brings new opportunities to protect and enhance and to achieve real outcomes for the environment.

See more about the work of Natural England at:
Are you looking for a role which is part of a relatively new and expanding team who are at an exciting juncture on their journey to promote, enable and sustain an agile and intelligent way of working in an ever-changing environment? If so, we would love to hear from you

This role does not require experience or specific knowledge of the natural environment; however, you will need to demonstrate a desire and commitment to helping to meet our public service goals and to operate as part of a values led organisation.

In this role you will be required to work with multiple customers, across the business including external service providers and contractors. In joining a small team, you will be prepared to lead various tasks and understand project dependencies and deliverables whilst championing our mission through excellent communication and by forging strong stakeholder relationships.

**Person Specification**

We are looking for two individuals to lead, advise and deliver on change through digital transformation. We are seeking creative thinkers of a growth mindset, who have experience of working on complex, multi-stakeholder projects and change management. You must be a self-starter who is able to ‘hit the ground running’ is flexible in their thinking and approach to work and has the resilience and ability to see the bigger picture and quickly adapt to change. Ultimately an element of the unknown is an environment in which you would wish to thrive.

External relationships will be critical. You will liaise with contractors, DEFRA and DDTS colleagues and will feed into decision making and project level stakeholder engagement planning. Internal networks will be just as important, and you will be expected to provide outreach support and advice to colleagues across the Organisation.

**Key tasks/principal accountabilities**

Please ensure you detail how you meet the Essential and Desirable criteria for the role.

The postholder will:

- Take sole responsibility for the delivery of projects, work areas and activities in tandem with cultivating positive relationships between the wider business, external stakeholders and business partners.
- Provide expertise to support and challen