ICT Business Partner

Role: ICT Business Partner - Public Sector

Location: Hybrid - WFH plus travel to Thames valley counties 2 days per week.

Salary: £52,250K + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including excellent Pension, and a wide range of travel and shopping discounts)

Key Skills: Business Relationship Manager / Service Delivery Manager experience, bridging the gap between Business Units and ICT. Technology road mapping, driving User Experience, writing Business Cases, Information Governance and Assurance, clean and current UK driving license and eligibility for Security Clearance.

Why Apply: This is a great opportunity to join a high-profile Government organisation where you will be bringing your extensive ICT background and ability to discover, analyse, document and drive forward key ICT projects in partnership with key stakeholders so that each Business Unit's ICT needs are met and ICT is optimised at every opportunity.

Our Client: Our Client is government organisation delivering essential services at a local level. They are a technology driven organisation, embracing a wide range of transformation projects to drive continuous improvement in all their operational areas.

The Role: (summary)

• Work with the Senior Business Partner to manage relationships with key stakeholders across a variety of Business Units and at varying stages of ICT projects. Meet with Senior Management heads to establish and document their IT requirement, document business cases, project funding, cost modelling, supplier discussions, collaborating with technical architects to understand the impact on the technology roadmap. Subsequent evaluation of outcomes and User Experience reporting.
• Identify gaps / business needs and fully document
• Build ICT technology roadmap awareness across the organisation
• Check information Governance, Assurance and Accessibility
• Understand project costs and subsequent lifecycle costs
• Liaise with Technical Architects to check High Level Design

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• 3/4+ years in ICT Business Process Mapping / Business Partnering type roles, ideally gained within a Public Sector organization, (ie. Local or Central Government or Policing)
• Excellent relationship building skills with stakeholders
• ITIL best practise, ideally v3 or v.4 ITIL certified, (BRMP is desirable but not essential)
• Strong desire to drive User Experience at all times and awareness of the User Journey throughout all new business cases / projects
• Good supplier management skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to liaise confidently across the team and a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience with associated ICT costs and ability to drive effective solutions based on improved services, cost-efficiency and benefits realisation
• Energy and drive to engage with all key stakeholders and deliver the best ICT solutions to each business need
• Clean and current UK driving license and a willingness to travel to Oxfordshire and neighbouring counties up to 2/3 times per week if required.
• 5+ years UK residency, (with no extended periods outside of the UK), in order to meet the necessary level of security vetting required.

** You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role **