Digital Development Lead

Job title: Digital Development Lead

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Location: Homebased

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract for 12 months – Full-time – 35 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

About the role

We are seeking a Digital Development Lead, who is familiar with Children’s and Family services and has expertise in developing successful propositions and business models for services.

In this role, you lead a team of product designers and a digital developments officer to apply user centred service design techniques to digitally transform Action for Children’s services.

You’ll drive the expansion of our Digital Children’s Services into local authorities, generating income and securing funding, whilst collaborating with our fundraising team, to shape a vision that meets local needs and ensures financial sustainability.

How you’ll create brighter futures

• Lead a team of specialists, ensuring Action for Children’s policies and standards are consistently applied
• Drive the growth of existing and new digital products, shaping strategy and long-term planning to create leading digital solutions
• Lead efforts to drive the organisations adoption of digital service products and their benefits
• Create innovative service models working collaboratively with Business Development, to design and price bespoke services for tender responses
• Identify and seize opportunities to generate substantial funding for projects

Let’s talk about you

• Experience of identifying user and market needs
• Experience of developing innovative digital products, leading to taking the product to market at scale
• Extensive experience of business modelling within the Children’s Services environment, with proven track record of driving growth, sustainability and profitability from digital innovation.
• Working knowledge of user centred service design principles, processes and methods
• Experience of running service innovation programmes with multiple stakeholders and completing objectives
• Experience of writing business cases to secure significant funding
• Proven ability to apply inclusion and diversity principles
• Accustomed to liaising with stakeholders from varied backgrounds and levels of digital expertise.

Good to know

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about the role, please review our full job description by clicking here.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at [email protected] quoting reference 11658 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.