The Assistant Director Delivery (Digital) will be responsible for leading the Digital Development and Digital Change Programmes within Homes England, which are key in our future organisation transformation.

This exciting new role will work closely with the Chief Executive, Directors Group, Transformation Lead and Chief Digital and Technology Officer to continuously shape the priorities and direction to champion user centred design and a healthy open culture of change.

This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for a talented individual to play a key role alongside the leadership team in transforming an organisation with ambitious plans.

We are looking for a talented individual capable of leading a software development team and ensuring that objectives, goals and commitments are met.

The successful candidate will be:
Adept at delivering complex digital projects and programmes being able to resolve large or high-risk commercial management issues.
Responsible for coordinating and driving forward complex delivery products and projects, collaborating and liaising with internal and external clients and senior stakeholders.
Leading the Delivery Team, ensuring the right capacity and capabilities can deliver the transformation solutions successfully.
Working with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure all digital solutions align across the organisation avoiding duplication.
Management of Delivery commercials and budgets.
Proficient in ensuring the proper processes, tools, people and resources are leveraged to deliver the very best digital delivery.

Providing thought leadership and advocacy for organisational change as well as lead a multi-disciplinary team of programme, portfolio and agile specialists to enable work stream leads to a more iterative, user centred way of working.

ResponsibilitiesYou will also have a demonstrable track record of leading transformational programmes within a complex, fast paced and ambiguous environment as well as strong knowledge of agile methods are essential.

In addition, we would expect you to have a solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in Agile Project Management tools and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level.

Benefits

Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits.

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

All appointments are on Homes England terms and conditions. Full time hours for this post are 35 hours per week; alternative flexible working arrangements would be considered.

Please note - Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Equifax to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Should an appointment be made to a London base location a London Allowance of £3,883 will be paid per annum.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

At Homes England we acknowledge that everyone is different. The diversity of our people, our partners and the communities we work in is reflected by their diversity of differences, qualities and needs.

We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects the society we live and work in. We are also committed to creating an inclusive work place culture that supports diversity and inclusion allowing all our colleagues to bring their whole selves to work without fear.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

We believe achieving equality, diversity and fairness of opportunity is our shared responsibility and we work hard to ensure that as an organisation, we are all accountable for its delivery.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

How to apply:
For more information on the role, please see the attached document named 'Assistant Director Delivery (Digital) - Role Profile'

If you would like to apply for the role, please complete the document named 'Homes England Application Form' along with the 'Diversity Form' and return it to [email protected] before the deadline stated. Your email should include the job title and reference number of the post you are applying for.

Blind Shortlisting - We want to recruit the best talent and only shortlist on merit and to enable this we remove any information that could unconsciously impact selection decisions such as name and gender.

Application Form - Within the form you are required to provide all relevant details and a supporting statement with specific examples of where your skills, knowledge and experience relate to the main accountabilities in the job remit and to the Homes England competencies in the competency framework, attached for your information.

Diversity Form - Please can you provide all the relevant details to ensure that we can match your blind application form back to you as an individual. This form is detached from the application prior to shortlisting. It will not be seen by those involved in the recruitment process, only your contact details will be passed on if you are being invited to an interview. The other information provided will be used for statistical purposes only to ensure that our recruitment processes uphold our commitment to equality of opportunity.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. The application and selection process is competency-based, and you should familiarise yourself with the relevant competency framework before attending an interview.

Please note - we do not accept CVs as a form of application.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are regretfully unable to respond to every application individually. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the adverts closing date we will not be progressing with your application. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role.

If you need the application form, or any of the other materials, in a different format, please email [email protected].

Interview date and location to be confirmed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Apply and further information

Contact point for applicants
Name : Recruitment Team, Homes England
Email : [email protected]