Chief Digital Information Officer

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

- 242815**Salary**:

- £54,551 - £62,118-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- VCA - Finance & Resourcing - Digital Services & Technology**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- BristolAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Would you embrace the opportunity to play a critical part of a business transformation journey?

Are you a confident communicator who enjoys collaborating and building relationships with various stakeholders?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity available to join our team as Chief Digital Information Officer and would love to hear from you

**Job description**:
As Chief Digital Information Officer you will be responsible for establishing and executing the VCA’s digital and technology vision and strategy, ensuring its alignment to the wider business strategy.

You will have the opportunity to make a real change and contribute to the overall business strategy development; utilising your current knowledge, future vision of digital techniques and ways of working to support business transformation activities.

You will regularly engage with the executive team and various stakeholders, such as the other government departments, agencies, and the technology sector, to identify and source innovative technologies that will improve VCA business performance. Therefore, it is vital that you have excellent communication skills and the ability to develop trusted stakeholder relationships.

You will be responsible for leading a digital team, consisting of approximately 20 personnel, in addition to the supporting contracted services (approximately £500k per annum) that deliver services, technologies and governance.

**Person specification**:
**Your key responsibilities will include**:

- setting the mission, vision and strategic direction of the digital and IT organisation, with a clear delivery roadmap, operating model and business prioritisation for the development of the VCA’s digital and data capabilities
- acting as lead authority for all digital, data and technology matters within the organisation
- developing and implementing a strategy to ensure that the VCA is at the forefront of adopting digital, data and technology to best support the automotive industry
- acting as a trusted advisor, build and maintain relationships with other VCA business leaders to develop a clear understanding of business needs; ensure cost effective delivery of digital services to meet those needs, and ability to respond with agility to changing business priorities.
- leading on VCA’s cyber defence strategy to identify and mitigate against cyber risk
- Review and approve all digital investments, managing the digital portfolio to create long term value, drive insight and to ensure alignment with strategy, architectures and standards.

**About you**

You will be a high-quality individual who has a track record of delivery and is comfortable with operating at pace.

You will be a leader with experience of successfully operating at a similar level or with similar experiences, and a track record of delivering transformation and change.

You will have a background in strategic planning, development of clear and deliverable vision and the ability to translate strategic priorities into clear outcome-focused objectives and drive forward implementation at pace.

You will be able to utilise your experience in delivering improvements to IT assurance and cyber security to embed good practice into business as usual operations.

You will be comfortable communicating with internal/external senior stakeholders and are confident when conveying complex ideas in a clear, concise manner.

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

- Leadership
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:
Being part of the Civil Service entitles you to a wide range of fantastic benefits. Including flexible working arrangements, generous annual leave allowance and attractive pension options. More specific to VCA, employees can benefit from childcare vouchers and have access to cycle to work and Tech schemes.

If you would like to read more about VCA and the benefits of working for us, visit our Careers website

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**How to Apply**
- experience of working within a digital environment, delivering digital products and services
- leading, developing and motivating a team to deliver to a high standard
- ability to establish and maintain strong, trusted relationships with various internal/external stakeholders to achieve positive