Advisor - digital skills and development - 29796

Job Description

Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone?

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 organisation, with the ability to understand and contribute to the big picture . 

Enthusiasm for problem solving and can demonstrate how they use their initiative to proactively identify and address risks and opportunities.

Excellent people skills, is an effective communicator who appreciates different perspectives and who is able to develop strong networks to enable efficient and successful delivery.

 

Highly desirable skills/experience: 

Experience and understanding of learning and development to support the Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession and/or digital priorities.

Contact and additional information

We’re a national team, giving you the flexibility to work from any office location. We offer flexible working hours, ideally covering the core hours of 10:00-15:00, but this can be negotiated.  

For external appointees there is an expectation to work at least one day a week from an office to support integration into the organisation, subject to regular review.

Occasional travel for meetings, away days etc including occasional overnight stays is required.  On average once a month but may change subject to team needs.

Interviews will be held face to face in Bristol or via MS Teams toward the end of November/early December.

To discuss this position please contact Simon Isaac, Senior Advisor (Digital Workforce and Skills) on [email protected].

Competence 1

Learning and Development

Description

Develops and manages appropriate learning interventions to meet the specific needs of individuals and teams across the Environment Agency.

In no more than 250 words please provide an example or examples of your role and the actions you took in understanding, designing and meeting the learning and development needs of a group of people, ideally within the context of digital, data and technology at a strategic level.

Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our "EA capability dictionary".

Competence 2

Achieves Results

Description

Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets. Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results.

In no more than 250 words please provide an example or examples of how you have used your experience and skills to achieve results including how you anticipated and adjusted to problems or opportunities that could influence delivery.

Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our "EA capability dictionary".

Competence 3

Focuses on Customers and Partners

Description

Addresses the needs of internal and external customers, provides rapid and effective responses

In no more than 250 words please describe a time or times when you have had a role in anticipating, understanding and meeting customer needs and describe the approach you took, ideally within the context of learning and development.

Please note we do not assess CVs. It is your answer given to this question that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your response. We encourage you to refer to our "EA capability dictionary".

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.