JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the strategic alignment of Digital and Data solutions with the Independent Football Regulator’s strategic objectives and regulatory roadmap.
• Analyse, and document business requirements for Digital and Data Profession initiatives, ensuring alignment with regulatory objectives and data governance principles.
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate business requirements into functional specifications for Digital and Data Profession solutions.
• Support the testing and implementation of Digital and Data Profession solutions, ensuring they meet the defined requirements and deliver the intended business value.
• Contribute to the ongoing evaluation and improvement of Digital and Data Profession initiatives, identifying opportunities for optimisation and enhanced effectiveness.
• Interpreting and documenting user needs and requirements.
• Guide user experience analysis, prioritisation and validation, recommending techniques to align with business and user needs and articulate their impact on system design
• Supporting the prioritisation of Digital and Data Profession deliverables
• Educate and support the wider Independent Football Regulator to understand the importance of the role of Digital and Data Profession specifically to their areas and in general.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Excellent communication and influencing skills to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, manage stakeholder expectations, and build consensus.
• Ability to critically analyse information, identify patterns, and translate complex business needs into clear and concise technical specifications.
• Ability to identify and analyse problems, propose solutions, and contribute to effective decision-making processes.
• Proficiency in creating process flows, data models, and other documentation to articulate requirements and support system design.
• Experience working with agile methodologies and in collaborative technology environments.
• Experienced in delivery in a regulatory environment.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Relevant professional certifications in business analysis or working towards the required levels (e.g., CBAP, CCBA, BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis)
• Experience working with agile methodologies and in collaborative technology environments.

We are running an information session where prospective applicants can find out more about the role. this will be hosted by Rebecca Norton Price, and will take place on:

• Monday 30th June at 1pm

The session will be an opportunity to hear more about the role, the team and wider directorate and the department. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Please register your interest by filling out this form and you will be sent an invitation. The invites will be sent the night before the session.
Please note that the session will not focus on the DCMS recruitment process - please direct any queries that you have on this topic (timelines, reasonable adjustments, onboarding etc) to recruitment.team@dcms.gov.uk

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the strategic alignment of Digital and Data solutions with the Independent Football Regulator’s strategic objectives and regulatory roadmap.
• Analyse, and document business requirements for Digital and Data Profession initiatives, ensuring alignment with regulatory objectives and data governance principles.
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate business requirements into functional specifications for Digital and Data Profession solutions.
• Support the testing and implementation of Digital and Data Profession solutions, ensuring they meet the defined requirements and deliver the intended business value.
• Contribute to the ongoing evaluation and improvement of Digital and Data Profession initiatives, identifying opportunities for optimisation and enhanced effectiveness.
• Interpreting and documenting user needs and requirements.
• Guide user experience analysis, prioritisation and validation, recommending techniques to align with business and user needs and articulate their impact on system design
• Supporting the prioritisation of Digital and Data Profession deliverables
• Educate and support the wider Independent Football Regulator to understand the importance of the role of Digital and Data Profession specifically to their areas and in general

To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following documents which will assessed against the experience success profile:

• A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the “Job History” section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form.
• A Statement of Suitability (max 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed however these will not be considered in the assessment of your application except in circumstances where there are a high number and calibre of candidates