Head of Digital Capability and Onboarding
Head of Digital Capability and Onboarding
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Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
Salary: £54,857 per annum
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract for 2 years, Full Time or Part Time hours
Our client is investing in the digital workforce they need to meet future challengesbuilding a more sustainable, skilled, and in-house capability that reduces their reliance on external contractors. As part of this work, theyve created the Digital & Data Hub: a central team that brings together recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and governance to support the growth of a modern digital profession within the agency.
Theyre now looking for a senior leader to head up the Hub. This role will focus on scaling up their recruitment of digital professionals, embedding consistent onboarding and capability support, and helping them meet its ambitious workforce targets in line with government expectations.
The Role
The Head of Digital & Data Hub leads their strategic approach to digital recruitment, onboarding, and workforce capability. You will be responsible for designing and running the processes that ensure they can attract, develop, and retain the digital talent it needswhile also contributing to the governments wider contractor reduction and efficiency targets.
This is a leadership role with both operational and strategic scope, sitting at the heart of the agencys drive to build a more skilled, sustainable digital workforce.
Key Responsibilities
* Digital Workforce Growth - Lead end-to-end recruitment campaigns across digital and data professions, ensuring roles are advertised, assessed, and onboarded in a consistent, timely, and inclusive way.
* Onboarding & Capability Support - Oversee the onboarding journey for all digital professionals, including apprenticeships, and develop mechanisms that support retention, development, and career progression.
* Contractor Reduction & Efficiency Alignment - Drive activity to convert and reduce external contractor roles where appropriate, aligning to Civil Service and Spring Budget targets for efficiency and workforce sustainability.
* Governance & Reporting - Ensure the Hub maintains accurate oversight of digital workforce metricsincluding headcount, vacancies, contractor usage, and diversity indicatorsand reports effectively to them and central government stakeholders.
* Cross-functional Collaboration - Work closely with HR, finance, commercial, and digital leadership to coordinate workforce activity, unblock delivery risks, and provide senior-level assurance on progress.
Skills And Qualifications
Theyre looking for an experienced leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, operations, and people. Youll bring the credibility to influence at senior levels, and the focus to deliver at pace. Most importantly, youll be driven by a desire to create the conditions where digital professionals can succeed and grow within the Civil Service.
You Will Have
* A clear, practical leadership stylefocused on delivery, clarity, and collaboration.
* A commitment to inclusion, development, and building professional communities.
* Ability to model high standards while supporting others to grow in capability and confidence.
Additional Information
This role can be based in Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham or Birmingham. Your presence at one of these locations will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you. They operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Their expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60% of your time at your base location. Visits to other sites or work locations count towards this.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £54,857, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency contributes £15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
An environment with flexible working options where they encourage a great work-life balance.
* Alongside your salary, they have a fantastic pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Generous Annual Leave - 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
* 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the Kings birthday.
* Latest IT and Tech devices.
* A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all of their colleagues.
* Excellent learning and development tailored to your role including paid apprenticeships up to Masters level.
* Wide range of discounts schemes on high street names.
* Employee assistance program for health and well-being.
* Cycle to work scheme and Gym membership offers
To Apply
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