STFC Transformation Delivery Director

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On behalf of UKRI STFC, we are looking for a Transformation Delivery Director (Inside IR35) for a 12 month hybrid contract based in Didcot.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Transformation Delivery Director , your main responsibilities will be to:

- Provide executive leadership for STFC’s Transformation, acting as the senior accountable leader responsible for shaping, mobilising and delivering transformational change which enables STFC’s strategic ambitions , UKRI priorities and government objectives .
- Translate the strategic vision into an integrated transformation strategy and roadmap, defining the future operating model, required capabilities and sequencing of change across the organisation.
- Lead the development and implementation of STFC’s future operating model, ensuring alignment across strategy, governance, organisation design, culture, people, processes, technology, data and delivery capability.
- Establish and lead effective transformation governance as a complex portfolio of programmes, projects and activities. Ensuring alignment with the Government Functional Standards, including clear accountability, proportionate assurance, investment governance, risk management , dependency management and transparent reporting.
- Own the business case and benefits framework, ensuring investment decisions are evidence-based, affordable, deliver value for money and realise measurable organisational benefits.
- Provide executive oversight of major transformation initiatives , ensuring programmes and projects are appropriately designed, resourced, assured and delivered through effective portfolio management disciplines.

Essential:

- Strategic leadership capability, with the ability to shape transformation, influence senior stakeholders and translate strategic ambition into measurable organisational outcomes.
- Ability to lead through ambiguity and complexity, exercising sound judgement, balancing competing priorities and making effective decisions at senior leadership level.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build alignment, secure commitment and provide constructive challenge with Executive Boards, government stakeholders, partners and wider communities.
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership approach, with the ability to build high-performing teams and create the culture required to deliver sustained change.
- Strong commercial and financial capability, including developing business cases, prioritising investment and ensuring value for money from significant transformation activity.

Desirable:

- Demonstrable appreciation of the STEM research and innovation landscape, with experience supporting science, technology, engineering and/or research programmes, fostering collaboration between academia, industry and government to deliver economic, societal and organisational impact.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, UKRI encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".