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Advisor - digital skills and development - 29796

Environment Agency
Allfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Oct 2024
💰 £41,617/yr

About the role

Advisor - digital skills and development - 29796 Number of jobs available   1 Region   National City/Town   All Grade   Staff Grade 5 Post Type   Permanent Role Type   Digital, Education and Training, Human Resources, Programme and Project Management, Strategy Working Pattern   Full Time, Part Time/Job Share, Compressed Hours Salary Minimum   £41,617 Closing Date:  

17/11/2024, 23:55 hours

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Then the Environment Agency is for you!

We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.

We are on a mission to enhance the digital literacy and professional digital capabilities across the Environment Agency and are looking for an Advisor to lead this activity. You’ll join our newly formed Digital Strategy team, which is helping drive organisation-wide digital transformation.

Reporting to the Senior Advisor (Digital Workforce and Skills) you’ll be responsible for:

- Working collaboratively with colleagues to ensure we understand the diverse digital learning needs of our people and take a holistic approach to digital literacy benchmarking and upskilling.

- Developing strategic and operational plans to support staff to develop the digital skills appropriate for their roles and evolving business needs.

- Supporting the development of a corporate view of our current professional digital workforce/skills, help identify future needs and input into future strategic digital workforce planning.

- Designing and implementing a comprehensive professional digital skills programme and create upskilling opportunities at pace and scale.

- Promoting the development of a learning and innovation culture.

The role would suit someone with a mix of experience in designing and developing large scale learning and upskilling programmes, ideally from a digital/tech background (although not essential as we can help develop your expertise in the digital/transformation space)

Responding to incidents is an important part of what we do. With this in mind you’ll have an incident role and should be ready to make yourself available to respond or provide business continuity support. This may attract an additional payment. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you. The team   The Digital Strategy team sits in Strategy, Transformation and Assurance. We work across the EA, with our Digital, Data and Technology Corporate Services partner (DDTS) and the wider Defra Group in three broad areas:

1 - Digital strategy development and the EA’s strategic approach to digitally-enabled business transformation,

2 – Ensuring our workforce has the people and skills it needs for a digital future.

3  – Enabling and supporting corporate level IT change with DDTS. Experience/skills required   We are looking for a person who has 

Experience of working at a strategic and operational level, ideally in a large and diverse organisa

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