Digital Strategy Manager

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| Salary £58,444-£63,734 per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Digital D&I Application Development |

Preston, Lancashire (with remote/home working too!) £58,444 to £63,734 (Grade 13)

Lancashire County Council's in-house Digital Services team have created a new position for a Digital Strategy Manager to continue their career in a dynamic, innovative department with over 450 staff.  

This vacancy will utilise your skills and experience enabling you to support the transformation of our Digital Services and add real value to the Council and its citizens. Your role will give you opportunities to: 

Own and drive the delivery of the Digital Strategy for LCC's staff and citizens, making Lancashire a great place to live, work, visit and prosper.

Engage and network with other public sector bodies to align outcomes and best practice for the Digital agenda for Lancashire.

Manage a team of professionals whose focus is delivering a range of rapid projects using agile methodologies to deliver outcomes quickly.

Implement a new low-code platform and agile squad to support the requests from LCC service leads for rapid business outcomes.

Candidate:?We are looking for an enthusiastic team player who is eager to demonstrate and use their expertise of authoring and implementing a digital strategy in a public sector environment to ensure projects align to the strategy principles, and to instigate and deliver new projects to meet the strategic vision. You will have detailed knowledge of:

Driving actions from a digital strategy to deliver on the vision.

Establishing and nurturing successful links between a large Digital Services department and its stakeholders at strategic and tactical levels, including suppliers and other public sector bodies.

Providing high level strategic advice to a range of business stakeholders related to the principles in the Digital Strategy.

Influencing and encouraging buy-in to the Digital agenda for staff and citizens

Running a team of scrum masters and developers using a low-code platform

Why join us...

Location: Hybrid / Lancashire (rated one of the best places to live in the UK!)

Salary: £58,444 to £63,734 (Grade 13)

Benefits: There's fabulous flexibility and the opportunity to create the work life balance you'll love with up to 31 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 2 additional days at Christmas and then an additional 20 days that can be purchased too - we have a generous local government pension with shared AVC's available plus a benefits package which has everything from dog care to day care, holidays at home or abroad, long service awards, Medicash, support groups, cycle to work schemes and eye tests plus much more

Development: you'll get support and development along the journey - there will be time for supportive reflection and supervision for yourself, opportunities for personal growth and development, professional qualifications, multidisciplinary initiatives, mentoring, the opportunity to make a difference, feel valued and achieve the job satisfaction you've always wanted

Inclusivity: we don't have a "one size fits all" idealism, we embrace diversity and that includes around personal and family requirements so appreciate that you'll want to be working from home when you can, your hours may vary or change and for us - delivering successful outcomes is more important than watching the clock

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.