Fed Data Strategy Lead

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

- 406304

**Salary**:

- £55,557 - £66,058
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DWP - Policy Group

**Type of role**:

- Policy

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Leeds, Quarry House, LS2 7UA; Sheffield, King’s Court, S3 7UF.
No other locations will be considered. For all locations, travel to other sites may be required.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:

- The Fraud, Error & Debt Policy & Strategy Directorate lead work to drive strategy and policy development and design to help address the fraud and error challenges facing the department. To do this, we work collaboratively across Policy Group, the department, across Government and with external stakeholders, to identify the issues and find solutions.

**Job description**:
Data and AI are a key enabler to driving down fraud and error in the welfare system. This forms an essential strand of the directorate’s ‘plan for prevent’, work endorsed by the Executive Team.

The post holder will be responsible for leading our strategic response on how data can be used in the fraud and error landscape.

Role responsibilities include:

- Providing strategic leadership for FED Data Transformation, ensuring its alignment with the goals and objectives of the DWP. Support the planning and delivery of the programme workstreams, ensuring their timely and successful completion.
- Lead and maintain relationships with a core working group of both internal and external stakeholders engaged in the specialised field of data and AI, to develop a clear strategy for the operationalisation of data into DWP benefits to reduce fraud and error.
- Provide support to senior leaders and the department by providing informed insights on data usage to prevent fraud and error. Prepare detailed reports and presentations to clearly communicate findings and recommendations, addressing a wide range of queries and opportunities.
- Lead on external, ministerial, and other government department (OGD) engagement and briefing on FED data and AI policy.
- Establish strong connections and ensure alignment with broader Departmental strategies and programmes. Advocating and influencing from the FED perspective and whilst identifying opportunities for collaborative development.
- Collaborating with the Change community and others to develop a comprehensive business case for future spending review bids and fiscal events. Including the development of a strong benefits case to secure ongoing investment and support in the FED data space.
- Oversee the strategic delivery of the Fraud Prevention Fund, ensuring effective allocation and utilisation of resources to drive innovative initiatives aimed at reducing fraud and error across the department.

An understanding or experience of data or digital strategy would be advantageous in this role.

**Person specification**:
**Experience Key Criteria**
- Experience working closely with Data Scientists and Data Analysts and building networks of stakeholders to tackle significant challenges **(lead criteria).**:

- Understanding or experience of developing and implementing data or digital strategies.
- An understanding of how data can be utilised to improve service performance and reduce fraud and error, alongside familiarity with key industry techniques, e.g. entity resolution.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with an ability to command analytical, and technical data issues at pace and produce high quality written work and presentations for a range of audiences.
- Experience working across government to identify areas for data collaboration.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £55,557, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £16,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave - at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a firs