Senior CDO Business Partner
Job summary
We are looking for a CDO Senior Business Partner with the right experience to develop trusted and influential relationships with senior stakeholdersacross UKHSA. The role sits within the Portfolio Office and Business Partnering Team, which is within the Digital and Data directorate, which is part of theChief Data Officer group.
Main duties of the job
As a CDO Business Partner, you will:
- Establish and maintain meaningful and trusted relationships with colleagues across the agency to understand business ambitions and, where appropriate, ensure digital products and services support them
- Explore shared needs, encouraging re-use, central management, sharing and commoditisation, aligned to digital, data, technology and security strategies
- Lead activities that improve relationship maturity, increase value, improve user experience and increase efficiency
- Ensure strategic demands, such as spending reviews and business planning, are supported
- Promote sustained investment of user-centred approaches to ensure products and services meet user needs
- Ensure complex needs and challenges are understood, prioritised and communicated for strategic and tactical requirements in line with CDO Portfolio and DDaT governance
- Prepare documentation and obtain support to progress new ideas, opportunities and investments
- Take accountability for issues and proactively identify risks and opportunities to achieve excellent user outcomes
- Play an active role in the digital and data community, sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams
- Be a proactive member of the CDO Portfolio Office and Business Partnering division, leading by example by modelling Insightful, Impactful and Inclusive behaviours.
About us
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers
Job description
Job responsibilities
A CDO Senior Business Partner establishes and maintains meaningful relationships with colleagues to deliver positive impact across the organisation. You will ensure that the needs and challenges of your business stakeholders are understood, prioritised and communicated to the relevant audiences within CDO. You will also ensure that the strategic intent of CDO, risks and issues in relation to digital and data, opportunities and constraints are understood by your business stakeholders. You will develop a pipeline of opportunities with your business stakeholders in line with strategic priorities.
This list of duties is not exhaustive.
Essential criteria:
- Experience of business partnering, influencing stakeholders and managing relationships effectively including a recognised Business Relationship Management qualification (BRM Professional, Certified BRM or equivalent) or equivalent professional experience
- Understanding the whole context and able to communicate how activities meet strategic goals
- Strong technical understanding of core digital, data and technology concepts, with the ability to explain how they fit into the wider landscape
- Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
- Capable of resolving differences in perspective and priority between wider peers and stakeholders, considering all views and opinions
- Experience of shaping a pipeline of opportunities which can deliver value across the organisation, including seeing the bigger picture by taking groups of requests, investigating commonality and identifying underpinning capabilities required
- Able to analyse current processes, identify and recommend opportunities to optimise processes
- Previous experience of Agile and user-centred approaches and Government Digital Service service standards
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours & Experience.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
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You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 8 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:
- Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
- 1250 word supporting statement.
This should outline how you consider your skills, experience and knowledge provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria. You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.
Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 1250 words. We will not consider any words over 1250 words.
Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:
- Meets all essential criteria
- Meets some essential criteria
- Meets no essential criteria
If used, the piles Meets all essential criteria and Meets some essential criteria will proceed to shortlisting.
Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we may conduct an initial sift, on the lead criteria of :
- Experience of business partnering, influencing stakeholders and managing relationships effectively including a recognised Business Relationship Management qualification (BRM Professional, Certified BRM or equivalent) or equivalent professional experience
- Understanding the whole context and able to communicate how activities meet strategic goals
- Strong technical understanding of core digital, data and technology concepts, with the ability to explain how they fit into the wider landscape
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview & assessment.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
Stage 2:Interview
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You will be invited to a singleremoteinterview.
Behaviours & Experience will be tested at interview. You will also be asked a question about your experience in Business Partnering.
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:
- Seeing the Big Picture (Lead)
- Changing and Improving
- Communication and Influencing
- Working Together
Interviewsdates to be confirmed.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Location
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London). Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport links and benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Security Clearance Level Requirement
Successful candidates must pass a baseline disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC)
You will be required to have a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years as the role requires Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Eligibility Criteria
External: Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).
Salary Information
If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.
Civil Service: Grade 7
- £56,185 - £ 66,581 (National)
- £58,340 - £68,574 Outer London)
- £60,494 - £70.566 (Inner London)
Person Specification
Application form and supporting statement
- Application form and supporting statement
Interview Behaviours
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Communication and Influencing
Interview Experience
- Business Partnering
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Employer details
Employer name
UK Health Security Agency
Address
Core HQ
Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)
E14 4PU
Employer's website
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency