Head of IT Strategy, Planning and Partnership
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The vacancy
Head of IT Strategy, Planning and Partnership
London, Victoria– 2-year Fixed Term Contract
£73,427 (plus inner London Weighting £3,160)
35 hours per week
About Prospect
Prospect is a leading trade union delivering support, representation, and a collective voice for 158,000 members. We employ around 250 staff.
Our members want to succeed at work. They work across the public and private sectors, in a diverse range of specialist occupations, in aviation, defence, public services, energy, science, heritage, creative and digital. We negotiate by using evidence, advocacy, and building effective partnerships – while never being scared to use our membership strength to challenge employers when they get things wrong.
Diversity is a core value of the trade union movement, and we are passionate about promoting equality at work and are committed to it for all staff; therefore, we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
Prospect is a great place to work - this role has access to our high-quality defined benefit pension scheme and 33 days annual leave each year. We offer a good work-life balance, flexible working options and offer support for training and development.
The Role of IT Strategy, Planning and Partnership Manager
We are recruiting for IT Strategy, Planning and Partnerships Manager, to help define and then drive the union’s Technology strategy over the next two years.
This is a two-year fixed term role reporting to the Director of People and Operations with ongoing strategic support for the union’s Senior Management Team.
Prospect is an organisation undertaking a digital transformation and the successful candidate will be responsible for leading on all strands of the union’s Technology strategy.
This will include planning and overseeing significant change activity, leading and line managing the Technology team, collaborating with union colleagues, especially Digital leads, ensuring high performance and strong relationships with all third-party technology partners.
This role is perfect for an individual with a proven track record of strategy development, delivery, and reporting, with experience in delivering transformation.
We are looking for someone with the following:
- An in-depth understanding and delivery of business strategy
- Demonstrable experience driving internal service performance.
- Demonstrable experience driving 3rd party service performance.
- Strong leadership, management, and coaching skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, especially with senior stakeholders.
- Strong organisational, strategic planning and executive-level reporting skills.
- Excellent understanding of Technology and Data operations and procedures.
- Excellent understanding of Data Governance, especially GDPR.
- Excellent project, programme or change management skills
Employee Benefits include:
- Annual incremental salary steps until the maximum is reached.
- Inner London weighting allowance.
- 33 days annual leave per year.
- Office closure over the Christmas period.
- Contributory defined benefit pension scheme with high employer contribution rate.
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers telephone counselling and a website with many useful toolkits.
- Eye care voucher scheme and cycle to work scheme.
- Access to Prospect member services benefits including shopping, travel, health and insurance discounts.
- Access to training to support career development
- Hybrid working
Application details
If you have any questions please e-mail: recruitment@prospect.org.uk
Closing date: 8 August 2024 – Noon (CVs will not be accepted)
Interviews will be held on 22 August 2024 at our London offices in Victoria.
Prospect Union is committed to create a diverse environment and is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. All our applicants will be given careful consideration for employment regardless to race, colour, religion, sex, physical and mental disability, age, citizenship, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, and any other protected status.
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About us
Prospect is a leading trade union that delivers advice, support, representation and a voice for our members. We are a not-for-profit organisation with over 250 staff helping to support more than 150,000 people in specialist, professional and technical roles across the private and public sectors. The Bectu Sector of Prospect represents both employees and freelancers working in Film, TV, Broadcasting and theatre and live events.
Our members want to get on at work. They work in a diverse range of professions, including energy, science, engineering, heritage, defence, entertainment and digital. As a union for modern working life we aim to get the best deal for our members by using evidence and building partnerships – while never being scared to call employers out when they get things wrong.
Our priorities are to grow our membership through attracting new members and to improve our impact, whether that is helping members win improvements at work or changing the policy environment which affects them.
Diversity is an important value for the trade union movement, and as an organisation we are passionate about promoting equality and equity at work and are committed to it for all our staff; we would be particularly interested in applications from groups that are underrepresented in the workplace.
Prospect is a great place to work - We offer a good work-life balance, flexible working options and offer support for learning and development.
Employee benefits
Data protection
Prospect is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals and complying with our obligations under GDPR. Please see the Candidate Applicants’ Privacy Notice which explains how Prospect will process and hold your information when you apply for a vacancy and your rights as a data subject.
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