Key Services you will drive departmental delivery by building a data and insights function that: Provides on time, high quality reporting on departmental performance that enables effective decision making at Boards and Committees, external reporting and through Ministerial submissions, often meeting tight, conflicting deadlines; Deploys your team’s expertise and cross-departmental insight to surface and address trends or issues in delivery to Ministers and senior officials, understanding and improving delivery confidence to reach trajectory; Maintains strong stakeholder relations to ensure formal and informal knowledge exchange and to champion the use of data to improve delivery, within and beyond the department. Leads a programme of continuous improvement to ensure reporting meets evolving stakeholder needs, and provides practical solutions to improve data quality Leadership Of Change Working in close collaboration with colleagues across the department, you will play a key role in building delivery data capability, including: Embedding a new delivery data service, guiding the new Microsoft based tool (the Delivery and Risk Manager) from initial implementation to full adoption; Facilitating the transition from manual to automated, self-service reporting and dashboards via Power BI at programme, portfolio, departmental and ministerial level; Developing the capability of the department in the use of data and automation to drive delivery; Embedding technical tools and delivery benchmarking into core ways of working, in collaboration with wider delivery teams; Harnessing your team’s knowledge and skill to provide subject matter expertise on data and management information in relation to the management case of the department’s business cases. Contributing to the development of a delivery data strategy for the department to guide future development and innovation;