Nuclear Waste Services is looking for a Digital & IT Business Partner to join its business team flexible working from Harwell, Oxfordshire.
As part of this role, the Digital and IT Business Partner will work within the Digital Strategy & Architecture team to engage with aligned business functions to ensure that requirements and requests are correctly interpreted and accurately delivered. You will build a strategic relationship with the business to co-create a future digital and IT roadmap, shape and own the delivery of change projects, ensure business adoption and benefit realisation and the delivery of services in line with agreed business need.
- Act as strategic relationship holder for aligned lines of business or enabling functions, forging strong relationships, and ensuring digital and IT needs are understood and articulated in an agreed roadmap
- Build a strong understanding of business need and processes, helping to identify opportunities for improvement and digital transformation
- Be the positive voice of Digital and IT when interfacing with lines of business / enabling functions
- Work with the functional areas to ensure that business and IT budgets are aligned
- Support the business with the creation of solution concepts and business cases, working with them to prioritise appropriately
- Shape and own resulting Digital and IT projects ensuring alignment of requirements, plans and implementation activities
- Ensure business benefits and business change and training plans are appropriately understood, planned for and realised
- Work with functional areas to overcome resistance to change, and adoption of new working models enabled by digital and technology change
- Develop, deliver and manage communication, stakeholder, training engagement plans
- Manage own area of Acceptance into Service
Essential
- Effective Stakeholder Management across all different levels of Business from End Users through to Senior Exec Leadership
- Effective relationship builder who is able to establish realistic expectations to gain mutual support and trust from the Business
- A passion for IT/technology
- Strong Communication Skills, with ability to positively influence others and break organisation silos
- Strong writing, speaking and presenting skills
- Ability to handle ambiguity and be flexible in their approach
- Experience in engagement and management of cross functional teams
- Ability to hold a minimum of UK Baseline Clearance (BPSS
Desirable
- Experience of working with business leaders on the development of transformation and IT strategy
- Experience of Public Sector programmes and/or government projects
- Comprehends detailed technical updates and able to translate them into understandable insights for non-technical teams
- Solid Understanding of Business Readiness Activities to enable successful transition to new ways of working
- Understanding of Digital/ICT programme assurance processes and value for money assessments
Aside from the huge professional scope at Nuclear Waste Services, the personal benefits are excellent, these include:
- On appointment to an RWM, full-time staff are entitled to a generous annual holiday allowance of 38 days’ annual leave. LLWR up to 43 days in addition to a buy/sell scheme
- Rewarding performance (bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous above average pension scheme
- learning and development support
- payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. At Nuclear Waste Service we are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, Nuclear Waste Service welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria, Nuclear Waste Service will interview the best candidates from within that group.