About the role Join us as a Digital & Technology Change Partner and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Council’s digital landscape. You’ll work sidebyside with senior leaders and service teams, getting to know what they do and spotting opportunities where digital tools, data and smart technology can make a real difference. By building strong relationships with service areas, you’ll gain deep insight into how they operate, enabling you to provide constructive challenge, champion innovation, and ensure technology drives real value for our colleagues. In this influential role, you’ll lead and guide services through their digital journey -creating futurefocused technology plans, supporting business cases, keeping an eye on new trends, and making sure we invest wisely. You’ll translate tech into plain, friendly language, work closely with our DDaT colleagues, and help shape projects from idea through to delivery. You need to be enthusiastic, collaborative, and passionate about using technology to improve lives. Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. You will be based at Bury Town Hall on site for 2 days a week or where projects require. About Bury As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way Next steps If you require further details about the role, please email Emma Heap - e.heap@bury.gov.uk Calculate your take home pay. Use this service to estimate how much Income Tax and National Insurance you should pay for the current tax year. Employment could affect your benefits, find out more here. Turn2us Benefits Calculator.
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Location
Knowsley Street, , Bury, BL9 0SW, United Kingdom
Job ID
11852
