Director for Strategy, Delivery & Digital Transformation. SCS1

Edinburgh - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Are you ready to lead transformational change at National Records of Scotland embedding new ways of working and delivering lasting change that puts customer needs at the heart of public services

NRS is embarked on an ambitious transformation journey to modernise and reform its services. This is a new and exciting opportunity to play a key role in leading this change to ensure NRS services are sustainable in the long term. The post holder willembed new agile ways of working across the organisation in order to deliver business change and digital transformation focussed on our customer needs. The post holder will deliver the corporate change strategy replacing legacy systems in a pipeline of transformational projects overseen by a delivery team coordinating planning and managing the change portfolio.

The post holder will enable NRS to deliver Ministers aspirations for public service reform putting customer needs at the heart of our approach streamlining operations and ensuring services are cost effective and represent value for money.

The post holder will be a member of the NRS Executive Management Board working with the Chief Executive and other Directors to set the strategic direction of the organisation and will attend the NRS Strategic Board along with NRS Non-Executive Directors.

Responsibilities

Oversee delivery of the NRS vision strategy and Target Operating Model and a rolling portfolio of business change and digital transformation providing robust portfolio management governance and assurance and developing supporting workforce and finance plans in order to deliver the strategic outcomes of the organisation.
Develop NRSs Digital Strategy and roadmap setting the organisations long term architecture and vision for digital transformation and how this will be delivered ensuring the strategy is aligned to the wider NRS corporate strategy and plan Digital First approach and Scottish Government Digital Strategy.
Lead the digital transformation of operational services moving away from end of life legacy systems and putting in place longer term solutions as part of an end-to-end service design to deliver effective efficient and flexible digital infrastructure across our NRS business services and deliver better outcomes for customers.
Support development of a data strategy for NRS maximise the opportunities of new technology like AI and collaborate on opportunities for shared digital service provision across the public sector and SG.
Embed new ways of working across the organisation focussed on service delivery using agile delivery methods to design and deliver services with the needs of customers at the heart and support staff in the organisation through the change process.
Oversee delivery of IT core services for NRS including arrangements for robust cyber security hardware supply the procurement of commercial services and software licensing with a key focus on governance sustainability standards and best practice ensuring quality customer service delivery to NRS internal and external customers.
Provide leadership for NRS corporately as a member of the NRS Executive Management Board and attendance at the NRS Strategic Board with Non-Executive Directors responsible for corporate decision making and setting the organisations strategic direction
Lead a directorate of c100 staff fostering a culture of inclusion learning continuous improvement and customer-focussed delivery ensuring teams have the capability and capacity to deliver taking responsibility for the professional development of NRSs Digital Data and Technology staff and relationships with the Scottish Governments Digital Directorate Line management of 5 C2s.

Qualifications

Success Profile

It is essential that you can provide evidence in your application of the professional experience and skills required for this addition candidates applying for roles with the government agencies and public bodies in Scotland are assessed in line with the Success Profiles framework that is used across the Civil Service. This means that as well as evidencing the specialist criteria you will also be expected to evidence the behaviours at the level required for this Senior Civil Service role.

Experience:

A strong track record of leadership at a senior level successfully driving business change in a customer-facing environment.
The ability to collaborate and engage effectively with a range of stakeholders and business interests to shape the development of strategy and the delivery of solutions.
Proven senior level experience of developing and implementing digital strategy and transformation at scale and in a complex technical and financially challenged environment.

Behaviours: Level 5

Leadership (level 5)
Developing Self and Others (level 5)
Working Together (level 5)
Changing and Improving (level 5)
Managing a Quality Service (level 5)

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here:Success profiles: candidate guide -

How to apply

Apply online providing a CV and Supporting Statement (of no more than 1500 words) which provides evidence of how you meet the skills experience and behaviours listed in the Success Profile above.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can be used to support your application but all statements and examples provided must be truthful factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others or generated by artificial intelligence and presented as your own) applications will be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please see ourcandidate guidance for more information on acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in recruitment.

If invited for further assessment this will consist of a psychometric assessment and a panel interview.

Assessments are scheduled for w/c 23 February however this may be subject tochange.

Interviews are scheduled for w/c 9 March and willtake place in person inGeneral Register House 2 Princess Street Edinburgh EH1 3YY.

Interview panel:

Alison Byrne Chief Executive of NRS
Stephen Pathirana - Chief Executive of SPPA
Geoff Huggins Digital Director Scottish Government
Derek Steele HR Business Partner

About us

The National Records of Scotland is a Non-Ministerial Department of the Scottish Administration and part of the DG Strategy External Affairs and Culture portfolio. NRS is headed by a Chief Executive who also fulfils the roles of two statutory non-ministerial offices the Registrar General for Scotland and the Keeper of the Records for Scotland.

Our staff are part of theUK Civil Service working for Ministers and senior stakeholders to deliver vital public services which improve the lives of the people of Scotland.

We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment along with a wide range of employee benefits. Find out more aboutwhat we offer.

As part of the UK Civil Service we uphold theCivil Service Nationality Rules

Location

NRS has 4 buildings all in Edinburgh and a further team located in Dumfries & Galloway.

Working pattern

Our standard hours at Senior Civil Service level are 37 hours per week. We follow the Scottish Government hybrid working policy and it is expected that the successful candidate will combine working from home with a presence in the workplace. We also offer flexible working arrangements.

Individuals on any working pattern can apply for any post. Job sharers are encouraged to apply. You can find guidance on applying for SCS roles as a job sharer whether you have a job share partner or nothere

Security checks

Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks Identity Right to work Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).

You can find out more about BPSS on theUK Government website or read about the different levels of security checks in ourCandidate Guide.

Equality statement

We are committed to equality and inclusion and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.

Find out more about our commitment todiversity and how we offer and support recruitment adjustments for anyone who needs them.

Further information

Find out more about our organisation what we offer staff members and how to apply on ourCareers Website.

Read ourCandidate Guidefor further information on our recruitment and application processes.

Further information about this opportunity is available fromAlison Byrne ()

Required Experience:

Director

DescriptionAre you ready to lead transformational change at National Records of Scotland embedding new ways of working and delivering lasting change that puts customer needs at the heart of public servicesNRS is embarked on an ambitious transformation journey to modernise and reform its services. Th...