NSPCC Hiring for Head of Digital Operations at Remote Full Time

Every childhood is worth fighting for. This is our belief and what drives us.

Digital technology has become a crucial part of the way in which the NSPCC can influence those individuals who affect a child’s life and help keep children safe. As part of an ambitious new Digital Strategy, we are looking to recruit a Head of Digital Operations who will be accountable for governing and coordinating strategic planning, staff, and resources across the Technology & Data Directorate to ensure the successful execution of Digital Strategy and Hoshins.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Technology & Data, you will be tasked with a broad Directorate- and Society-wide remit to enable our technology & data initiatives in support of Directorate and Society plans and priorities. This role calls for an outcome focused individual with a strong grounding in technology & data, and significant experience working in a senior position.

In this role, you will work with the technical teams and other NSPCC leaders to develop and execute against our technology initiatives and other strategic and Directorate commitments, supporting Society-wide change and transformation. You will also work with the Programme Delivery Board, Project Management Office and Executive Board to align plans, forecasts and prioritisation activity, undertaking financial planning, budgeting and resource planning for the Directorate. You will measure the outcomes being delivered, managing effective strategy and planning processes on behalf of the Directorate, alongside talent and workforce management, internal technical governance, risk and security management, delivery execution and reporting. You’ll play a key role in the digitisation of current processes and ways of working to ensure greater impact and effectiveness in our operational delivery methods.

Join us and you’ll become part of a team that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You’ll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that’ll bring the best out in you. And you’ll get to find your own way to make a difference and impacts millions of young lives.

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.