Job Introduction Role Name: Data & Digital Programme Manager
Department: Transformation / Projects
Contract: Permanent
Location: Office (1-2 days office days a week)
Security Clearance: SC
Region: London (Hybrid)
Grade: D Upper - Office
Salary: £66000 - £71000 (The SIA's policy is that for all new starters are expected to start at the bottom of the grade.)


If you would like to apply for this role, please fill out the details on our ATS Profile builder and provide a Personal statement outlining why you would be an ideal candidate for this role.


About Us
The SIA is the organisation responsible for the regulation of private security. It is an independent, arm’s length body (ALB) of the Home Office, reporting to the Home Secretary, under the terms of the Private Security Industry Act 2001. The SIA’s purpose Is protecting the public through effective regulation of the private security industry and working with partners to raise standards across the sector. Its regulatory remit covers the whole of the United Kingdom.

The SIA has two main duties: the compulsory licensing of individuals undertaking designated activities within the private security industry and the management of a voluntary Approved Contractor Scheme, which measures private security suppliers against independently assessed criteria.


SIA licensing covers security operatives who are in guarding, door supervision, close protection, cash and valuables in transit, and public space surveillance using CCTV, vehicle immobilisation (in Northern Ireland) and key holding. Licensing ensures that private security operatives are fit and proper persons who are properly trained and qualified to do their job.


About the Role
This is a great time to be working in the Security Industry Authority (SIA); we have embarked on delivery of a Data & Digital Programme which has been heavily influenced by the Home Office & Government Digital Service Teams, as we align our technology priorities and road-map. With big changes ahead in areas such as One Login, Digital ID, and smart licensing, we are embarking on a very exciting period of change for our business and customers, driven through digital transformation, seeking improvements, efficiencies, and modernisation in our business operations.
The role will work alongside our Digital Transformation Lead and our digital services provider in delivering the Data & Digital Programme. This is a key opportunity to join a motivated organisation whose focus is on delivering real digital change and benefits over the years to come.
We are a non-departmental public body with a remit for public protection. Our purpose is to protect the public through effective regulation of the private security industry. If you would like to join us in fulfilling that purpose, through the delivery of excellent digital services, read on.


What essential skills are we looking for?
Please find the job description attached, and a list of the essential criteria listed below.

• Professional qualification such as Managing Successful Programmes or member of the Association of Project Management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of programme and project methodologies (PPM): and ability to lead on, represent and be an advocate for a range of PPM tools and techniques, being innovative and keeping up to date with the latest trends. You have experience of. of iterating working practices to achieve effective delivery and of having successfully led teams through the full product cycle, identified which tools and techniques should be used at each stage, identified and dealt with risks across or between all stages of the product life cycle
• Governance: you have demonstrable experience of programme and project governance and advocate for it across the team, ensuring appropriate assurance to stakeholders including the Executive and the Board.
• Planning: you can use a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and road mapping. You have experience of using plans to identify risks and issues and ensuring these are mitigated or resolved.
• Team dynamics and collaboration: you have experience of coaching within and outside of the team, and in ensuring the overall welfare /well being of the team, recognise how people best work together, enhance team performance, create an open and collaborative environment to work in and ensure that their work is understood by stakeholders.
• Maintaining delivery momentum: you have expertise in solving issues and unblocking problems, you drive teams and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. You have a proven track record of managing various dependencies across teams.
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical: you can communicate effectively across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. You can successfully react and respond to challenges, even in constrained timescales.
• Financial and commercial management: you can report on financial delivery, monitor cost and budget, and create a programme forecast. You have experience of delivering with a third party and navigating the commercial considerations that entails, including identifying and working with colleagues to resolve commercial conflict.
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What can you expect from us?

• A welcoming and innovative work environment.
• Continued support and development opportunities.
• Access to training for attainment of recognised qualifications.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Annual leave entitlement will be 27.5 days, rising by one additional day for every two years of service up to a maximum of 32.5 days.
• A variety of discounts including Gymflex,
• Civil Service Pension Scheme – Employee contribution between 4.60% and 7.35% and Employer contribution between 26.60% and 30.30%

Selection process for this role:
If you would like to apply for this role, please fill out the details on our ATS Profile builder. To help us get a better understanding of your experience, we ask that you provide as much information as possible about your previous work experience and achievements as our shortlisting process is anodised.

Additionally, we would like you to submit a Personal statement (no more than 500 words) in the "Personal Summary" section of the portal. In this cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be an ideal candidate for this role. Please highlight your relevant skills, experience, and achievements that align with the essential job requirements.

• This vacancy is using SIA Competency Framework and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
• Interviews will take place on Wednesday 11th December 2024.
• Interviews will be held in person at our office in Canary Wharf.

**Please note - if you do not meet the essential work or qualification experience, you will be automatically rejected by the pre-screening questionnaire.

The SIA is committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion. Our approach: do more than just our duty. We explain this in more detail in our equality, diversity and inclusion policy. We actively promote equality, take positive action to redress inequality and build a culture that champions diversity and inclusion. By doing this, we will ensure that we build equality, diversity and inclusion into the way we think and work. As an employer, the diversity of our employees enriches us and enables us to better carry out our role as a regulator. We value the skills and qualities each employee brings with them into the organisation. And we improve representation wherever we need to foster a culture of inclusion that our employees lead, own and champion.
If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, or our recruitment policies etc, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role at ( Recruitment@sia.gov.uk )