Director of Digital, Data & Technology
Role purpose
Our Director of Digital, Data & Technology will share our passion and commitment to members of the fire and rescue services community to live healthier and happier lives.
The purpose of this role, a member of our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for an expected period of two years (may be extended), is to lead, support and oversee the transformation of our digital, data and technology capability as we implement our strategic objectives, including:
- to improve and develop our services
- to broaden our reach and deepen our impact
- improve our ways of working.
Our Director of Digital, Data & Technology’s leadership and deliverables will be integral to our ability to adapt to an increasingly complex operational environment.
There are five key aspects to the role:
- Collaboratively leading the charity as part of our Senior Leadership Team
- Transforming our digital, data and technology capability and performance in support of our objectives
- Leading the governance and management activities for information governance and information security across the charity
- Management and development of the Digital, Data & Technology team, and
- Influencing and stakeholder management.
As a Senior Leadership Team, we are ambitious for the charity and increasingly work in a contemporary and dynamic way, modelling progressive and inclusive leadership and always supporting one another to take opportunities and to manage competing and changeable priorities so we can achieve our shared and individual objectives. We are looking for someone who will thrive in this working style.
We are looking for a very special, experienced and innovative leader who will work in an agile and dynamic way. He/she/they will be a leader with a successful track record of demonstrating how to optimise data and technology to drive the organisation forward and in creating high quality digital services. Experience in leading and delivering complex innovative change and large-scale digital and data-led transformation is required. A strong financial and commercial understanding is also crucial to success in this role.
Our Director of Digital, Data & Technology must understand charitable service delivery, being a skilled change manager who can inspire support, loyalty, trust and enthusiasm across internal and external stakeholders alike.
Job summary
The core purpose of the role is to identify, document and ratify the business requirements that our future digital, data and technology services must transform to meet. Then, create the relevant strategies and a plan, in collaboration with senior stakeholders as to how these changes are to be realised, at pace.
Key to success will be a holistic approach to information asset and processing requirements, leading to (where appropriate) an integrated set of proposals for IT solutions which are proven, future proof and deliver defined business benefits.
While providing inspirational leadership and strategic direction to the Digital, Data & Technology team and working collaboratively across SLT, the post holder will work to operationalise and embed the deliverables associated with this post by the end of an expected two-year period.
Main areas of responsibility
- Leading the charity as part of the Senior Leadership Team
- Transforming our digital, data and technology
- Leading organisational information governance and security
- Management and development of the Digital, Data & Technology Team
- Influencing, change and stakeholder management
