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Digital Business Performance and Planning Manager Pay of £37,497 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for Digital Business Performance and Planning Manager to join DWP. You will be part of a team providing essential business management services where you'll help us measure and drive better performance. Our DWP Digital teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Ability to confidently use Microsoft Excel to collate and analyse data, draw conclusions, and use appropriate Microsoft products to report on findings. Ability to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands. Experience of managing relationships with stakeholders to meet common goals. Experience of problem solving, being able to identify and recommend where improvements are required in a process. You and your role As an Associate Digital Performance & Planning Manager you will collaborate in researching, organising and analysing data and information. You will assist in the design & implementation of a Workforce plan, helping to identify demand and monitoring recruitment (supply) against the demand and within budget. You will support with the design of Performance Dashboards, Scorecards and Data Visualisations that help people better understand the work of teams. You will also ensure compliance with relevant policies e.g. on compulsory training, accommodating accessibility, health and safety improvements and the efficient use of costly IT equipment by staff. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool or Manchester, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and sometime collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer pay of £37,497. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £10,862 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 23 days and rising to 30 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

The Planning Inspectorate is looking for a strategic leader to define and drive the digital and data product vision across the Inspectorate, ensuring alignment with government-wide strategies and user needs. It requires governance of a complex service network, overseeing product lifecycle management, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement of digital services. The ideal candidate will also lead and develop high-performing teams, foster a culture of innovation and inclusivity, and ensure effective financial and resource planning across the product portfolio. Each week involves a dynamic mix of strategic oversight, stakeholder engagement, and delivery coordination across enterprise-wide digital products and services. Key activities include: Product & Service Strategy: Shaping the strategic direction of the enterprise product suite, ensuring alignment with the organisation’s service model and identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement. Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly engaging with stakeholders across services to manage expectations, gather feedback, and ensure product alignment with business needs. Delivery Management: Picking up delivery responsibilities for cross-cutting enterprise products, ensuring smooth coordination across multiple services and teams. Product Ownership & Support: Providing guidance and support to the product management function within Digital & Data, promoting best practices and helping teams develop effective product strategies in a service-oriented environment. Continuous Improvement: Spotting and exploring opportunities to enhance ways of working, foster cross-service collaboration, and leverage emerging technologies to solve business challenges. Communication & Coordination: Maintaining clear and consistent communication around product goals, progress, and changes, both within the team and across the wider organisation. Salary New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. Internal rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest. This role is being advertised at Grade 7 with a salary range of £59,644 - £66,120. Working hours: Standard working week is 37 hours, flexible working hours policy available. The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy. We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services. For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at Office Attendance This role is contractually based at Temple Quay House, Bristol which is currently out of use due to undergoing refurbishment work. In the interim, we have the use of alternative office space in very close proximity to Bristol Temple Meads railway station. We recognise and value the mutual benefits of hybrid working and have a flexible approach to in person attendance, which can vary dependent on the requirements of individual business units - the details of which can be discussed with candidates if invited to attend an interview.

Job description As the Interaction Designer, you'll: design clear, accessible, usable digital interfaces that meet user needs and follow the Design System create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design ideas and test assumptions collaborate in agile teams with product managers, user researchers, and developers to iterate services based on research, analytics, and feasibility participate in design critiques and reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback contribute to user research activities and use findings to inform design decisions facilitate design workshops with teams, stakeholders, and users champion accessibility and inclusion, ensuring designs meet standards and legal requirements maintain and contribute to design systems, style guides, and component libraries to ensure consistency

The Corporate Systems team require an experienced Change Manager to Design and Deliver the Business Change processes and Communications for the Planning Inspectorate transition to Unity Shared Services ensuring effective change and adoption in line with organisation requirements. We are looking for an experienced business Change Manager to design and implement the Inspectorate’s change process ensuring that all Inspectorate SAP Employee Central changes are fully impact assessed and prioritised. Work with the SRO and Lead Delivery Manager to provide assurance against programme plans, verifying that milestones are aligned, and the Transformation Programme Plan takes into account time required to formally manage change. You will provide professional process and technical advice around change management to impacted business areas. The Planning Inspectorate has a long and proud history in ensuring a fair planning system for England. The work we do has a significant impact on people’s lives, the communities where they live and the economy. We want our colleagues to be able to work more flexibly and more collaboratively, exploring new and innovative ways to improve the way we provide services. For further information on the Planning Inspectorate, please visit our careers page at

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be setting the standards for technical excellence within a team of Developers and fostering an environment where team members are supported and can come to you for guidance and feedback. As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical direction within the team to identify the best technology, solutions and industry standard Agile methodologies and embed and enhance practices such as Test- Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps. You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions. Our Tools We use high-performance developer machines, AI coding assistance, and JetBrains WebStorm IDE. This combination, alongside a collaborative working culture, allows us to be very effective and deliver excellent results for the business. Our Tech Stack We rely on: NodeJS for our digital transformation work. HTML/CSS/JavaScript for both digital transformation and other services. Azure for our infrastructure and deployment. Azure SQL for data storage. Docker and Azure App Services to host our digital transformation services. Design System for our web interfaces. Drupal for CMS capabilities We’re happy to help you learn the specifics of our tech stack once you are part of our team. Check out GitHub () for a closer look at the technology we use. A typical week in this role will consist of a blend of responsibilities, including: Performing code review. Providing mentoring and coaching to other team members. Prioritising work in line with deliverables and project goals. Writing code. Writing unit tests. Offering technical advice on software architecture and technology choices. Providing guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Identifying and fixing faults. Providing technical assurance.