Dio - Assistant Head of Estates - Data Management and Corporate Reporting

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

- 383116

**Salary**:

- £59,690
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Estates - Specialist Teams

**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
Business Management and Improvement

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Whittington, Lichfield, RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, Catterick, Andover, Rosyth

About the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and play a key role in keeping our country safe through caring for the Defence estate and those that depend on it? DIO manages the Defence estate, one of the UK’s largest and most diverse property portfolios, enabling the armed forces and Defence civilians to live, work, train and deploy. From net carbon-zero accommodation to runways for the F35 fighter jets, our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe

If you are an experienced Senior Manager and are looking for a new challenge in working within a motivated and professional team, then DIO Estates is for you Through collaboration with Military colleagues on one of the largest estates in the country, with an extensive overseas portfolio, you will have the opportunity of working on a diverse range of exciting, interesting, and often-challenging projects of National Interest in support of the UK Defence Mission.

**The Role**

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the data governance, data management, and corporate reporting functions within the Estates department. Your main focus will be on designing and implementing projects/strategies to ensure data integrity, compliance, and improved accessibility. Additionally, you will provide strategic insights through robust corporate reporting. Collaboration with senior leadership, business units, and technology teams will be essential in driving data initiatives and supporting data-driven decision-making. Strong stakeholder engagement, project management, and change management skills will be crucial to the success of your team.

This job is advertised at 37 hours.

**Job description**:
**Main Responsibilities**

As an experienced senior manager your main responsibilities will be:

- Collaborate with senior leadership to promote a data-driven culture, fostering data literacy and advocating for data as a critical asset and manage communications to share best practice and information, developed to promote the Estates ‘brand’. Engage Stakeholders/Customers and improve our output based on their feedback.
- Oversee the delivery of corporate reports, dashboards, and KPIs that provide actionable insights for executive leadership and key stakeholders both internal and external, working closely with business units to understand reporting needs and translating them into technical requirements, and ensure timely and accurate delivery of reports.
- Implement data stewardship programs, to drive ownership, accountability, and consistency in data handling. Drive initiatives to improve data architecture and system use, in collaboration with the CIO (Chief Information Officer) and deliver effective training across all Estates Functions. Implementing a continuous training and development programme for our technical staff, enabling good use of the IT systems within the area.
- Improve and validate data reliability and accuracy providing information on data source/ limitations where applicable and drive the development of self-service reporting capabilities, empowering business units to access and analyse data independently and implement analytics and reporting tools, aiming for industry best practice.
- Stay informed on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data management and corporate reporting and drive innovation in data processes, exploring new technologies to enhance data quality and reporting capabilities. Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the data management team, encouraging team members to seek innovative solutions to business problems.

**Location**

If travelling outside your base location for duty reasons, you will have access to flights, hire cars, rail tickets and overnight accommodation. You can also claim 45 pence per mile should you choose to use your own vehicle for business travel.

**DIO Business Area - Estates**

The Defence estate is one of the largest landholdings in the UK and covers an estimated 1.8% of the UK land mass (200,000+ ha). This is complemented by a significant UK Defence presence overseas.

Estates are the in-house real estate team within the DIO (part of the UK Ministry of Defence) supporting infrastructure needs across a high-profile Public Estate. We acquire, manage, safe