Subject Specialist - Digital Leadership and Culture

at  Jisc

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Job title: Subject Specialist – Digital Leadership & Culture
Salary: From £42,000 per annum, negotiable dependant on experience
Contract: Permanent
Location: Remote
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions.
Join us and your contribution will help us to empower UK universities, colleges, research institutions and wider customers with technology so that everyone prospers.
About the role:
The Digital Leadership and Culture Programme is ideally seeking a digital leadership & culture subject specialist with experience of successfully managing and delivering change, preferably within an education setting.
Subject specialists are responsible for delivering outstanding support to our customers in line with the agreed objectives of the advice programmes they are working across. For management purposes the specialist will be based within the Digital Leadership and Culture programme team as best befits their skills and experience. They will also be expected to apply their expertise across other programmes to ensure as many customers benefit from their expertise as possible.
Subject specialists work with other Jisc staff from across the organisation; both to benefit from their knowledge of subjects, products and services related to their work with customers to assist colleagues in delivering support to customers as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Responsibilities will include:

• Designing and facilitating participative workshops, webinars, and training sessions for both online and dace to dace delivery
• Creating sector specific advisory materials on vision & strategy, leadership & management, and cultural transformation
• Creating and publishing regular blogs and other digital media materials relating to digital leadership and culture
• Keeping abreast of the latest developments in leadership, management, and cultural transformation
• Understand sector barriers to cultural transformation
• Ensure the appropriate sharing of research and knowledge obtained with colleagues across the Advice Team

Key Skills and Experience:

• Planning, designing, and delivering/facilitating workshops, webinars and training sessions for both online and face to face delivery
• Negotiating and resolving conflicting priorities
• Making sound decisions fast and working in a high paced, high-pressure environment
• Extensive leadership or management experience
• Experience of leading successful technology-related change projects within an organisation
• Experience of working in HE, FE, or public sector settings
• A proven track record of effective customer relationship management

Please refer to the job description for full details.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, but we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
Why work for us?
At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in our offices will vary across teams and job roles.

Take a look at our fantastic benefits! We offer:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas
• A generous pension scheme
• A range of leave options, including parental leave, 3 days volunteer leave per annum and even career breaks
• A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Mental health first aid trained staff and supportive environment
• Financial well-being support
• The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
• A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans
• Additional Flexible benefits include Holiday Buying - Purchase 1-5 days’ additional holiday per annum, Healthcare Cashplan, Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech

Equality, diversity and inclusion
We celebrate diversity, embrace our differences, through our culture and employee networks and know that this is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we’re inclusive and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Striving to be best in practice, we are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles - a principle which actively encourages acceptance of differences within individuals.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, class, citizenship, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, trans status, veteran status, or gender identity.
Application process:
Please do let us know what reasonable adjustments you need made to the application or selection process so you can do your best. We will be happy to help you.
Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it. However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls!
We advertised this role on 9th April 2024

• Designing and facilitating participative workshops, webinars, and training sessions for both online and dace to dace delivery
• Creating sector specific advisory materials on vision & strategy, leadership & management, and cultural transformation
• Creating and publishing regular blogs and other digital media materials relating to digital leadership and culture
• Keeping abreast of the latest developments in leadership, management, and cultural transformation
• Understand sector barriers to cultural transformation
• Ensure the appropriate sharing of research and knowledge obtained with colleagues across the Advice Tea