Description Head of Digital Workplace Salary: £70,752-£78,614 per annum Band: UKRI Band G Contract Type: Open ended Hours: Full-time/ Part Time (Minimum 0.8 FTE) Location: Swindon, Polaris House - Hybrid working available Closing Date: Monday 6th April 2026 About the role To provide visionary leadership to shape UKRI’s Digital Workplace strategy, ensuring technology-enabled transformation that enhances organisational agility, cross council collaboration, and employee experience. You will also act as a senior change leader within Technology Services, influencing decision-making across the UKRI executive, councils, and partners to ensure Digital Workplace initiatives contribute directly to strategic organisational outcomes. This role will drive cultural and behavioural change across UKRI to maximise the value realised from Digital Workplace investments, ensuring adoption, engagement, and alignment to organisational modernisation ambitions. Key Responsibilities Leadership & Key Responsibilities Setting the long-term vision and multiyear strategy for the Digital Workplace, ensuring alignment with UKRI mission, workforce transformation priorities, and Group CIO strategic direction. Leading cross-UKRI strategic engagement to influence how digital tools shape future ways of working, productivity outcomes, and organisational culture. Acting as a senior advisor to UKRI leadership on modern workplace trends, future collaboration models, and digital employee experience strategy. Driving enterprise level adoption and behaviour change to embed Digital Workplace capabilities in UKRI’s operating environment. Representing Digital Workplace at internal and external forums. Providing inspirational leadership, developing a high-performing, outcomes focused Digital Workplace organisation that role models modern ways of working. Championing the continued adoption of communities relevant to areas of responsibility. Ensuring alignment with the security and architecture teams with respect to implementation of security controls and architectural principles. Deputising for Deputy Director Technology Services as required. Assessing emerging technologies and strategically positioning UKRI to benefit from digital innovation. Developing effective networking with peer group, UKRI Group IT colleagues, DSIT and wider agency community. Accountable for engaging the senior stakeholder community with outputs from the Balance Scorecard & KPI dashboard functional reporting. Determining strategic, operational and financial plans for area of responsibility. Leading commercial strategy, contract frameworks, and supplier governance for all Digital Workplace services. Technology & Process Experience and Delivery Providing strategic oversight of asset and lifecycle management, delegating operational execution to appropriate delivery partners. Diverse experience in collaboration technologies & services. Experience of delivering process automation through digital change initiatives. Strategic leadership experience guiding the design and implementation of enterprise scale Digital Workplace ecosystems, ensuring modern, secure, user centred services delivered through effective operating models. Strong experience of Information security principles & best practice. Experience of delivering improved business productivity / efficiency from the effective exploitation of collaboration services. Experience of a federated IT delivery model. Proactively identify technology related risks, taking appropriate action to mitigate or resolve. Define, develop and iterate standard operating procedures, policy & processes that support the Digital Workplace function and wider Group IT. Demonstrate a proactive commitment to continual improvement. Personal Specification The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I). Essential Strong understanding of digital workplace technologies and enterprise collaboration platforms (S&I). Experience of delivering & leading a technology orientated function, servicing multiple locations in a public, or private sector setting (S&I). Experience of budget management in excess of £3m (S). High level of professional credibility with the influencing skills required to develop strong alliances and partnerships both internally and externally (I). Working with strategic delivery partners to drive value and performance with respect delivery of enabling technology related services (S&I). Proven procurement and commercial skills (S). Proven change delivery, transforming the digital workplace experience and driving business value (S&I). Benefits We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning! A list of benefits below: An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme. 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent). Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities. Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice. Flexible working options. Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance! For further information on our benefits please see: Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact recruitment@ukri.org Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact recruitment@ukri.org