DWP is looking to fill the role of Deputy Director for Artificial Intelligence in the Digital directorate.
As a member of the AI & Innovation Senior Leadership Team, you will create and develop a delivery team with the capability and capacity to deliver Generative AI for DWP in a safe, ethical and transparent measurable way and define the required digital capabilities – people, process, and technology - that will be required to deliver, building a plan to ensure this is achievable and aligned to wider digital priorities.
As a member of the AI & Innovation Senior Leadership Team, the Deputy Director for AI Delivery will:
* Create and develop a delivery team with the capability and capacity to deliver Generative AI for DWP in a safe, ethical and transparent measurable way.
* Define the required digital capabilities - people, process, and technology - that will be required to deliver; building a plan to ensure this is achievable and aligned to wider digital priorities.
* Be curious, setting a direction that is bold, inspiring and provides delivery teams with clear direction and purpose. In doing so, establish multiple Generative AI Proof of Concepts to explore the potential and problems across DWP.
* Ensure that AI products and services meet user and business needs.
* Where agreed, develop and maintain multiple Generative AI common components for use across multiple lines of business. The common components must be compatible with the Department’s Strategic Reference Architecture and meet the stringent standards expected of technology in DWP.
* Build, nurture and lead a diverse multidisciplinary team, embedding a digital culture that is user centred, open, kind, respectful, transparent, ethical and continuously improving. Resources will be based in multiple locations and be drawn from the Civil Service, contractor and supplier markets.
* Build collaborative relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across DWP to influence strategy and enable AI to be scaled through other major change programmes.
* Be responsible for understanding and managing complex stakeholder groups, balancing priorities and communicating between them. This includes working with colleagues to remove blockers, manage risks, commercials, budgets, suppliers and people assignments.
* Understand the bigger picture across the department knowing when and where to highlight risks, working with and influencing policy decisions.
* Work across DWP to identify opportunities to deliver better services through the use of shared AI capabilities.
* Be a visible leader across DWP Digital and the wider department, promoting agile and user-centric product development and deliver best practice in the context of AI.
* Management of headcount, including resourcing and capability challenges and development.
* Manage complex relationships with Ministers, No 10, Treasury, Cabinet Office and other influential stakeholders.
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