Deputy Director, Data & Digital Services
Scottish Funding Council
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edinburgh • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £77,700 - £90,759 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Set and own the strategic direction for SFC’s data and digital services, acting as the senior product owner for the portfolio.
- Own SFC’s data strategy, ensuring the approach to data collection, engineering, governance, and analytics is coherent, sustainable, and capable of supporting both operational needs and strategic insight.
- Ensure SFC’s data and digital capability underpins the organisation’s wider assurance obligations.
- Lead Data Engineering, Analytics, and Digital Service Delivery as an integrated function.
- Lead workforce planning across the function.
- Coach and develop the Assistant Director leadership layer.
- Lead, develop, and performance manage a multidisciplinary team spanning delivery, engineering, and analytics.
- Champion a data literate culture across SFC.
- Represent SFC’s data and digital interests at senior level with various stakeholders.
Requirements
- Senior leadership of a multidisciplinary data and digital function, with direct accountability for portfolio outcomes, budget management, and team performance across specialist disciplines.
- Experience of setting strategic direction for data services or digital products and translating that into prioritised roadmaps, investment cases, and measurable outcomes.
- Track record of integrating specialist teams into a coherent operating model, particularly connecting data and analytics capability to service delivery or business outcomes.
- Experience of operating at Board or senior governance level within a public sector, regulatory, or arm’s length body context.
- Strong understanding of the data lifecycle from collection through engineering, analysis, and insight.
- Proven stakeholder management at senior and cross organisational level.
- Experience of leading organisational transitions or major change programmes.
- Ability to build and develop high performing teams, including coaching senior managers, shaping team structures, and fostering a collaborative work culture across organisational boundaries.
Benefits
- Normal full-time hours of work are 35 per week. We will consider flexible working arrangements. A flexi-time system is in operation.
- Annual leave entitlement of 30 days pro-rata, plus public and privilege holiday entitlement of 13 days pro-rata.
- A flexible approach to hybrid working, giving you flexibility to work from home anywhere in the UK for some of the time while also maintaining regular in-person contact with colleagues.
- Annual pay review: approved within the framework of the Scottish Government’s Public Sector Pay Policy and negotiated with our recognised trade union, Unite.
- Eligibility to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme. With its low member contribution rates and generous employer contributions, this gives you a secure, inflation-proof pension for life.
- Support for continuous professional development.
- Support for health and wellbeing, including generous occupational sick pay, free access to confidential advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
- We provide support to SFC employees with Volunteering Days.
- Support for travel to and from work, including a salary sacrifice cycle loan scheme, cycle storage and shower facilities, an interest-free loan for bus or rail season tickets and free office car parking for employees on a first-come basis.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data strategydata collectiondata engineeringdata governancedata analyticsdigital service deliveryportfolio managementbudget managementperformance managementdata lifecycle
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingteam developmentstakeholder managementcollaborationstrategic directioncommunicationworkforce planningchange managementbuilding high performing teams