Head of Digital Capability and Onboarding - #1713229

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle:upon:Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea

Salary: A GBP 54,857 per annum

Job Type: Fixed Term Contract for 2 years , Full Time or Part Time hours

DVSA is investing in the digital workforce they need to meet future challenges:building a more sustainable, skilled, and in:house capability that reduces their reliance on external contractors. As part of this work, theyve created the Digital and Data Hub: a central team that brings together recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and governance to support the growth of a modern digital profession within the agency.

Theyre now looking for a senior leader to head up the Hub. This role will focus on scaling up their recruitment of digital professionals, embedding consistent onboarding and capability support, and helping DVSA meet its ambitious workforce targets in line with government expectations.

The Role

The Head of Digital and Data Hub leads DVSAs strategic approach to digital recruitment, onboarding, and workforce capability. You will be responsible for designing and running the processes that ensure DVSA can attract, develop, and retain the digital talent it needs:while also contributing to the governments wider contractor reduction and efficiency targets.

This is a leadership role with both operational and strategic scope, sitting at the heart of the agencys drive to build a more skilled, sustainable digital workforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Digital Workforce Growth : Lead end:to:end recruitment campaigns across digital and data professions, ensuring roles are advertised, assessed, and onboarded in a consistent, timely, and inclusive way.
• Onboarding and Capability Support : Oversee the onboarding journey for all digital professionals, including apprenticeships, and develop mechanisms that support retention, development, and career progression.
• Contractor Reduction and Efficiency Alignment : Drive activity to convert and reduce external contractor roles where appropriate, aligning to Civil Service and Spring Budget targets for efficiency and workforce sustainability.
• Governance and Reporting : Ensure the Hub maintains accurate oversight of digital workforce metrics:including headcount, vacancies, contractor usage, and diversity indicators:and reports effectively to DVSA and central government stakeholders.
• Cross:functional Collaboration : Work closely with HR, finance, commercial, and digital leadership to coordinate workforce activity, unblock delivery risks, and provide senior:level assurance on progress.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

Theyre looking for an experienced leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, operations, and people. Youll bring the credibility to influence at senior levels, and the focus to deliver at pace. Most importantly, youll be driven by a desire to create the conditions where digital professionals can succeed and grow within the Civil Service.

You Will Have

• A clear, practical leadership style:focused on delivery, clarity, and collaboration.
• A commitment to inclusion, development, and building professional communities.
• Ability to model high standards while supporting others to grow in capability and confidence.
  
  

Additional Information

This role can be based in Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham or Birmingham. Your presence at one of these locations will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you. They operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Their expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60 of your time at your base location. Visits to other DVSA sites or work locations count towards this.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of A GBP 54,857, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency contributes A GBP 15,892 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

An environment with flexible workin