About the Role
Job Title: Head of AI Impact and Assurance (Band B6)
Salary: £72,771-£80,776
Location: Liverpool / Birmingham / Norwich / Newport
Contract: Permanent / Compressed Hours
Closing Date: 22/06/2026
Job Summary
Lead the enterprise AI governance across the Government Commercial Agency (GCA), advising on safe, ethical, and highly impactful AI adoption, line‑manage a multi‑functional team, and bridge innovative AI capabilities with rigorous corporate governance.
Key Accountabilities
* Deliver and operationalise GCA’s AI Governance and Risk Management Framework, ensuring alignment with the UK Government AI Playbook and the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard.
* Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of AI use cases, from discovery through validation to Go/No-Go gates, ensuring each initiative has a validated value case proving ROI and technical feasibility.
* Identify, audit, and remediate undocumented or decentralised AI (Shadow AI), maintaining a real-time registry of assured AI assets and vetting third‑party vendors.
* Act as an AI governance advisor to senior leadership, providing counsel on emerging risks, market trends, and regulatory shifts.
* Champion a customer‑led approach to AI design, using deep user research and feedback loops to improve AI products and enhance decision‑making insights.
* Build and direct multi‑functional delivery teams, fostering an inclusive, high‑trust culture and supporting the GCA Inclusion & Diversity strategy.
Essential Criteria
* Line‑management experience and capability.
* Proven experience designing, operationalising and enforcing governance, risk management or assurance frameworks for AI, data or emerging technologies in a complex enterprise environment.
* Track record of leading end‑to‑end digital or AI use‑case lifecycles, from discovery to executive approval and scaling.
* Experience conducting comprehensive risk assessments (algorithmic impact, data privacy, security) and mitigating associated risks.
* Measurable experience driving customer‑centric digital innovation, utilising user research, feedback mechanisms and data analysis to deliver proven ROI and tangible value to end‑users.
Success Profiles (Interview)
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Changing and Improving
* Making Effective Decisions
* Working Together
* Delivering at Pace
* Technical AI Governance in UK Public Sector (to be assessed via presentation)
Benefits
* Competitive salary in band B6.
* Generous pension scheme.
* Discretionary non-contractual performance-related bonus.
* Flexi-time scheme available for B1-B6.
* Minimum 25 days annual leave, maximum 30 days for service‑related absence.
* Hybrid working model - about 26 days a quarter in the office and remaining time from home or another suitable location.
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