Intelligent Client Lead

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

- 306511**Salary**:

- £49,403 - £55,823- National: £49,403 - £55,823. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- RPA Business Transformation**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Bridgwater, Bristol, Cambridge, Carlisle, Crewe, Exeter, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Reading, Worcester, Workington, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), delivering over £2 billion in payments to farmers, traders and landowners each year.

We are an Operational Delivery Profession organisation, with the majority of our people delivering day to day services to our customers and stakeholders.

We make excellent delivery happen, empowering agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live.
We manage over 40 schemes, and also make payments on behalf of Natural England, to ensure we have a healthy rural economy, strong and sustainable rural communities, and to protect and enhance the natural environment.

Our vision is to create a great place for living for people in this country. We have developed a set of four strategic objectives covering our policy outcomes and corporate objectives. These objectives help us to deliver our ambitious vision to build our green and healthy future and provide a framework for all of the important.

**Job description**:
The Intelligent Client Function in Rural Payments Agency is expanding its capability to support the delivery of IT changes/initiatives that are critical to ensure our technology is up to date and in line with the government’s digital vision for the future.

The Intelligent Client Lead is a role working in RPAs Business Transformation directorate. You will report directly to the Intelligent Client Programme Manager and work alongside the rest of the Intelligent Client team.

You will support the crucial relationship with DEFRA’s Digital Data & Technology Service (DDTS). The role will proactively develop strong working partnerships across DDTS, working directly with DDTS’ business relationship managers in order to facilitate a focus on high quality outcomes and services from our IT delivery partner.

The role will contribute in influencing IT change that will have a direct impact on the future of agriculture and the country’s rural economy and will be at the heart of a major cultural transformation within the RPA.

This job provides a fantastic development opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with the right aptitude, who will either hold skills, or have transferable business experience.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about embracing digital opportunities and be able to work in an uncertain and challenging environment.

The role will also be key in driving forward the Business as usual (BAU) IT service provision to support the day to day running of IT services required to deliver RPAs business.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work with colleagues across RPA to translate strategic and business objectives to facilitate a clear understanding of RPA’s digital and technology requirements in DDTS
- Support in the translation of technology and digital roadmaps into meaningful user focus outcomes, working closely with colleagues across RPA to ensure they will meet needs
- Cover for the G6 deputy Senior Risk Owner at meetings, playing a leading role in security governance such as DEFRAs Security Working Group
- Support programme and projects in developing and maintaining strong relationships with DDTS and in articulating business requirements clearly
- Proactively drive collaboration between technology and delivery, in particular working closely with new and future DDTS Business Relationship Managers and supporting stakeholders including senior leaders across the organisation to understand DDTS’ requirements of the RPA and helping to facilitate and embed relationships
- Building on BAU IT service provision reviewing DDTS and RPA processes to enable better alignment e.g. change management processes
- Lead and support programme and projects in developing and maintaining strong relationships with DDTS and in articulating business requirements clearly.
- Develop capital funding bids on behalf of RPA to support strategic and business delivery, including working in partnership with DDTS and key programmes to ensure RPA requirements are reflected in bids and business cases
- Operate and deliver with a fast pace, in a constantly changing business environment and in response to different (technology) issues
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