More about Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a great place to live, work and do business. Most local people enjoy a high standard of living, and our levels of health and wellbeing are comfortably above the average for the country. Generally, local people are well-educated, unemployment is low and Gloucestershire’s economy is strong and resilient.

Furthermore, our natural environment is incredibly varied with a range of different types of landscape, 123 Sites of Special Scientific Interest and three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, as well as nature reserves and other natural assets.

We benefit from close partnership working in the county and, in the years ahead, we must work creatively together to make the most of available funding and even against a tough financial backdrop, we must go on investing in the future of Gloucestershire. And this includes the ambitious change programme within our Digital Solutions, Information and Technology function.

The ICT Strategy seeks to underpin the Council’s Strategy: Looking To The Future and it’s priorities which support the Council’s strategic vision “to make the most of all that Gloucestershire has to offer, help improve the quality of life for every community, support businesses to be successful and make sure the county is a place where people want to live, work and visit”. Aligned to this is the Council’s Digital Strategy, which seeks to make Gloucestershire “a smart place, digitally connecting community, county and council; putting power in people’s hands.” Like many other local authorities, the Council is on a journey to fully understand and exploit the benefits of implementing digital technologies. The maximum benefits can only be realised by addressing all aspects of the digital working model and a business enterprise architecture approach to organisational change – to focus on the technology alone in any Digital Strategy is to fail. The ICT Service will ensure we are influencing strategic and digital thinking in order to drive the right decision-making and the investment planning necessary to deliver defined business outcomes. This will require organisational changes and longer-term redesign of the ICT function and its roles & responsibilities to meet the changed and constantly evolving levels of demand from the business.

Harnessing the value of technology to drive change and innovation, building infrastructure which is flexible and secure to provide confidence and help the Council, its partners and communities to deliver a sustainable digital future.

 

The following values underpin the way we work...

 

“We are looking for individuals who want to make a difference and help create a high performing team. You will have the freedom to suggest and implement your ideas as we begin this journey of setting up the new digital and business relationship function. With digital ways of working at the top of the strategic agenda the role of this team has never been more important. Working in a support service for a council provides the opportunity to not only make a difference for the overall efficiency of the business but ultimately for the citizens of Gloucestershire. I am looking forward to meeting passionate individuals who would like to join me during this very exciting time.”

Sherrill Holder – Head of Digital & Business Relationships