About the job

Job summary

Post background

Digital and data delivery and innovation is central to achieving JNCC’s strategy by 2030. The Digital and Data Solutions Team is key within this space, supporting the organisation to generate robust, high-quality data that underpins our projects and functions. The team also supports delivery of a wide range of digital solutions to guide complex thinking and policy setting. The team is made up of five core functions: data protection, information management, data engineering, application development and technical project management. The successful candidate will work alongside another team leader to manage the team and their diverse and dynamic portfolio of work.

There will be opportunities to get involved in exciting work areas including working with cutting edge environmental data such as use of satellite imagery for change detection; designing data pipelines and automation for JNCC’s indicators; and ensuring that the organisation’s information management policies and procedures are fit for the scale and shape of JNCC.

JNCC is now on the midst of a significant period of change to adapt to these opportunities:

• Improving the efficiency of storing, integrating, and processing large datasets to produce key indicators.

• Migrating from legacy internal server infrastructure to make much greater use of the cloud for storage and sharing of documents and data. This is partly driven by the cyber security strategy and partly to enable more effective remote working. The work includes improving the use of MS technology to streamline existing corporate processes and governance.

• The storage of information and data on JNCC’s infrastructure is becoming increasingly siloed and divergent making it very challenging to locate resources across the organisation and ensure appropriate long-term archiving. This is being compounded by the incremental movement to Cloud storage.

• Continuing to enhance data protection policies and processes to meet imperatives from Defra and ICO.

• Providing support and assistance to JNCC for the development and implementation of applications and systems

The co-team leaders will have responsibility for overseeing these transformations including managing the structure of the team to enable it to provide a robust service to provide support across these functions into the medium term.

 

Job description

Post Duties 

The post will:

• Co-Lead the Digital and Data Solutions Team. This includes building a team culture, ensuring the skills of the team and its individuals are fit for purpose, that appropriate direction is given for priorities, that workloads are manageable and fulfilling, performance is managed and corporate requirements for management are met.

• Direct and develop the Team’s projects to ensure a good fit with other work within JNCC and support the delivery of the organisation’s strategy.

• Manage internal and external customer and stakeholder relationships.  

• Continuously review how the work can be evolved and improved to meet the challenges of the strategy and resource levels.

• Ensure Team Leader responsibilities for planning and reporting, quality and governance are carried out effectively.

• Work with Directors and other team leaders across JNCC to influence the direction and plan JNCC’s work and ensure an optimal fit of the work within this.

• Be an effective member of senior management.

Person specification

Please demonstrate in your statement your suitability for the position and why you are applying for the position.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,313, Joint Nature Conservation Committee contributes £14,300 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Please use the STARR technique when relevant

• Situation: Set the stage. 
• Task: Explain where you fit in. 
• Action: Describe each step. 
• Results: Impress with your achievements.
• Reflection: what have you learned 

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.