Employer: Parliamentary Digital Service
Directorate: Digital Value
Band / Grade: A2
Salary: £57,865 – £68,159
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid (remote and on-site – Westminster, London)
Security Level: Counter Terrorism Check (CTC)
Interview Format: Presentation + Panel Interview (Remote)
The Opportunity
The Parliamentary Digital Service is looking for a Senior Digital Initiatives Manager to help shape and drive Parliament’s digital future. This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of UK democracy, partnering with senior stakeholders across both Houses to deliver impactful digital, data and information initiatives that improve how Parliament operates. In this role, you will lead strategic initiatives that unlock value from technology, helping teams across Parliament identify challenges, shape innovative solutions, and embed new ways of working. You will use data-driven insight, systems thinking, and strong stakeholder engagement skills to influence complex decisions and support the delivery of Parliament’s Information and Digital Strategy. We are seeking someone who thrives in complex environments, can solve problems at pace, and is passionate about improving organisations through digital transformation. You will bring excellent communication, collaboration and organisational skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships and motivate teams to deliver meaningful change. This role would suit someone with experience in digital transformation, service design, delivery, analysis, technology, or user-centred design, combined with a strategic mindset and a strong focus on delivering value through digital innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape large-scale packages of work, identifying key areas of insight and challenge. Lead targeted initiatives alongside teams in PDS and Parliament more widely, to realise greater value from the use of digital, data and information.
- Primary accountability for implementing strategic priorities for Parliament and for PDS, including the Information and Digital Strategy, and CIO review.
- Analyse and understand complex, sensitive data from a range of sources to develop evidence-based solutions to organisational challenges.
- Drive outcome-focused delivery, providing challenge, and improving processes where they impact on Parliament’s use of digital.
- Balance workload across multiple workstreams and work with multiple cross-functional teams working towards shared goals that impact Parliament’s use of information, data, and digital.
What You Need
- Strong systems thinking and problem solving, with strong analytical skills and the ability to draw key insights from various data sources and develop evidence-based proposals.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish positive working relationships and influence people at all levels within the organisation, and able to mediate between people with different perspectives, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Experience of working in complex organisational environments and delivering at pace, and able to manage and adapt to ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively in appropriate styles at all levels.
- Ability to assemble, develop and motivate a multi-disciplinary team to deliver, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Demonstrable experience of a broad range of skills relevant to supporting organisations in using technology more effectively (for example, service design, business analysis, technology expertise, change management or Parliamentary organisational knowledge).
- Ability to pass security clearance, backed by the right to work in the UK.
Our Package
- Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 days in addition to bank holidays.
- Generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay.
- Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
- On-site gym, nursery, catering, post office and GP.
- Flexible options including hybrid working and family-friendly policies.
Employer: Parliamentary Digital ServiceDirectorate: Digital ValueBand / Grade: A2Salary: £57,865 – £68,159Contract Type: PermanentLocation: Hybrid (remote and on-site – Westminster, London)Security Level: Counter Terrorism Check (CTC)Interview Format: Presentation + Panel Interview (Remote)
The Opportunity
The Parliamentary Digital Service is looking for a Senior Digital Initiatives Manager to help shape and drive Parliament’s digital future. This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of UK democracy, partnering with senior stakeholders across both Houses to deliver impactful digital, data and information initiatives that improve how Parliament operates. In this role, you will lead strategic initiatives that unlock value from technology, helping teams across Parliament identify challenges, shape innovative solutions, and embed new ways of working. You will use data-driven insight, systems thinking, and strong stakeholder engagement skills to influence complex decisions and support the delivery of Parliament’s Information and Digital Strategy. We are seeking someone who thrives in complex environments, can solve problems at pace, and is passionate about improving organisations through digital transformation. You will bring excellent communication, collaboration and organisational skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships and motivate teams to deliver meaningful change. This role would suit someone with experience in digital transformation, service design, delivery, analysis, technology, or user-centred design, combined with a strategic mindset and a strong focus on delivering value through digital innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape large-scale packages of work, identifying key areas of insight and challenge. Lead targeted initiatives alongside teams in PDS and Parliament more widely, to realise greater value from the use of digital, data and information.
- Primary accountability for implementing strategic priorities for Parliament and for PDS, including the Information and Digital Strategy, and CIO review.
- Analyse and understand complex, sensitive data from a range of sources to develop evidence-based solutions to organisational challenges.
- Drive outcome-focused delivery, providing challenge, and improving processes where they impact on Parliament’s use of digital.
- Balance workload across multiple workstreams and work with multiple cross-functional teams working towards shared goals that impact Parliament’s use of information, data, and digital.
What You Need
- Strong systems thinking and problem solving, with strong analytical skills and the ability to draw key insights from various data sources and develop evidence-based proposals.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish positive working relationships and influence people at all levels within the organisation, and able to mediate between people with different perspectives, and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Experience of working in complex organisational environments and delivering at pace, and able to manage and adapt to ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively in appropriate styles at all levels.
- Ability to assemble, develop and motivate a multi-disciplinary team to deliver, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Demonstrable experience of a broad range of skills relevant to supporting organisations in using technology more effectively (for example, service design, business analysis, technology expertise, change management or Parliamentary organisational knowledge).
- Ability to pass security clearance, backed by the right to work in the UK.
Our Package
- Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 days in addition to bank holidays.
- Generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay.
- Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%.
- On-site gym, nursery, catering, post office and GP.
- Flexible options including hybrid working and family-friendly policies.
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