Head of Transition

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

- 367222**Salary**:

- £64,660 - £72,665- National: £64,660 - £72,665 (pro rata for part-time working) Project Delivery Professionalism allowance with relevant qualifications of £3135- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Fixed term
Loan**Length of employment**:

- 2 years**Business area**:

- DSIT - Corporate Services - Matrix Programme**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
At DSIT we’re all about improving people’s lives by maximising the potential of science & technology.

We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development.

We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared.

We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back.

We do all this to enable the Government’s 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future.

Above all, we focus on improving people’s lives. Whether it’s researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do.

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The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

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**Job description**:

- Matrix is part of a collection of central programmes which will deliver the collective “one” civil service ambition, driving modernisation, productivity improvements and reform outcomes to rationalise and harmonise 24 ministerial departments’ “back office” operations. These programmes collectively will reduce cost, time and enable the Civil Service to operate as “one” through interoperability, sharing of common services, systems and data.

Shared Services touch all Civil Servants, providing business critical tools in human resources, finance, payroll and procurement providing the foundation for employees to deliver public services. The Shared Services for Government Strategy is clear that through the clustering of departments and simultaneous investment in technology and service will deliver a fundamental modernisation of the ways of working for Corporate Services and through a modern digital landscape, deliver productivity, efficiency, risk reduction and transformational benefits for all departments, streamlining policy development, policy delivery and Ministerial response times.

The Matrix Programme represents the critical investment in Corporate Services Technology and Service provision, for Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business Trade (DBT), Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Department for Education (DfE), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), Attorney’s General Office (AGO) and His Majesty's Treasury (HMT); providing the foundation to deliver optimal transformation within departments.

The Programme is part of the Shared Services landscape across cluster which will deliver the Shared Services Strategy for Government, and its three core objectives:
1. Better experience for all users - intuitive systems that are easy to use and mobile-enabled.
2. Efficiency and value for money - better systems and services which support productivity and seek to reduce costs.
3. Standardised processes and data - support interoperability, making it easier to understand and compare corporate data.**Person specification**:
Role Overview

The role will form part of the core Matrix programme team, driving forward Change and Transition within the Programme Delivery Model alongside the Change Delivery Lead and Head of Service Transition & Capability; working with and on behalf of all departments to ensure system and service readiness for each department.

As the lead for the Transition Office, you will be responsible for a core team of Project Managers and department specific onboarding managers who utilising onboarding / readiness checklists, tooling and relationships with departmental teams, will track readiness activities within departments. In tracking readiness, the role will chair the Business Readiness Board, holding departmental representatives to account and reportin