Strategic Workforce Planning and Resourcing Lead

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

- 239502**Salary**:

- £49,700-
**Grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CDDO**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Human Resources
- Strategy
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of posts**:

- 2Contents

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- Bristol, South West England, BS2 0ES : Manchester, North West England, M1 2WDAbout the job

**Summary**:
A part of the Cabinet Office, the** **Central Digital and Data Office** **leads the digital, data and technology (DDaT) function for government. We put the right conditions in place to achieve digital, data and technology transformation at scale by working with departments, and other government functions like commercial, project delivery and security professionals.

**We are responsible for**:

- Digital, Data and Technology Strategy and Standards, like the Technology Code of Practice, the Service Standard and Open Standards
- Cross-government DDaT performance and assurance, including Spend Controls
- DDaT Capability Development, including the DDaT pay framework

**In the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Workforce and Capability team we are responsible for**:
The **Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Workforce and Capability** team (in Cabinet Office) is focused on ensuring that government has the right people to deliver digital transformation and meet the significant challenges that it will face in coming years. We aim to turbocharge our ability to **attract, recruit, grow and retain** world leading digital talent who will go on to develop game changing public services.

**This challenge is one of the most pressing and exciting in government, and one that is critical to government modernisation and reform.**

We are a dynamic and growing team of capability, digital and data professionals charged with setting strategy and delivering for the 23,000 digital makers, future talent, and the wider civil service. We are committed to building and continually developing a culture that is inclusive, enthusiastic, supportive, and ultimately a place where our people can perform and develop to their very best. It is important that your personal value set aligns with this ambition.

**Our programme will accelerate realisation of a more diverse and inclusive workforce, and includes**:

- Development and implementation of a new competitive DDaT pay framework;
- Design and implementation of a streamlined and standardised DDaT recruitment experience that reduces time to hire and supports a reduction in our current and future reliance on contingent labour;
- Up-skilling all senior civil servants to be equipped with 'digital and data essentials';
- Renewed investment in learning for all in digital and data, and a government wide commitment to apprentices and graduates at scale;
- A DDaT Strategic Workforce Plan.

**Job description**:
We are recruiting for two roles that will be well-suited to individuals with experience sourcing and managing talent within the Digital, Data and Technology labour market.

In both roles you will:

- Lead cross government working groups in your respective areas and actively contribute as a member of the cross government DDat Capability
- Work with Civil Service HR, Government Commercial Function and external partners to innovate our approach to sourcing talent
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across CDDO, within departments, HR centres of expertise and wider industry
- Work with the wider DDaT Workforce Strategy and Transformation team to ensure that policy proposals are data driven, that the employee value proposition remains market competitive and that recruitment and retention data is actively used to support the development of the DDaT strategic workforce plan and sourcing strategy
- Maintain and share forecite of strategic risks/opportunities within your area with the wider CDDO
- Demonstrative a commercial mindset when negotiating agreements between Government Departments, Central Government and/or external partners.

**Workforce Planning Lead**

As DDaT Strategic Workforce Planning Lead you will focus on designing and maintaining a DDaT Strategic Workforce Plan and underpinning sourcing strategy. You will support the DDaT Strategy team to develop the workforce components of the DDaT Strategy and underpinning documents including the functional standard, functional mandate and maturity assessment matrix.

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of designing and delivering an enhanced DDaT Workforce Strategy and operation that underpins the employee value proposition for DDaT professionals across government. You will give advice to departments, understand their workforce plans and recruitment and retention needs and help them find the right solution to meet these needs, coordinating with the wider DDaT Workforce and Capability Team.

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