IT Service Manager Department for Work & Pensions

Reference

1615329

Location

London & the home counties

Salary

up to £43,270

Work hours

37

Employment type

Job benefits

In addition to salary there is a very competitive pension, a generous annual leave allowance, great work/life balance include flexible working, family friendly policies and much more.

Closing date

11 February 2019

Job description

Do you want to be part of something really big? If you’re creative and curious to learn, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring BIG ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you.

DWP are looking for a IT Service Manager to work with us on in a once-in-a-generation digital transformation. Our people work on projects that are revolutionising products and services that are used by millions of people every day.

We know that better digital services in government will mean better public services. Using fresh ideas and leading edge technologies – and putting the user at the centre of everything we do – we create innovative digital solutions that make a difference to the lives of our 22 million users. We are looking for candidates with

You’ll be keen to take on the challenge of working for the UK’s largest government department in a role with a remit to protect over £170 billion worth of payments including payments to some of the most vulnerable members of society.

As a Service Manager you would be responsible for ensuring value and quality is achieved for the end-to-end support service of an IT service/product. You would be  responsible for defining service level agreements (SLAs) and operational level agreements (OLAs) to deliver to agreed performance targets in a cost effective and timely manner across all relevant functions.

 

You and your role

The IT Service Manager will manage the performance of the products/services within their remit ensuring the service/product and support functions remain responsive to customer need, you would be expected to manage the performance of the products/services ensuring the right capability is in place to act as an interface between Digital and third party suppliers, monitoring compliance against Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Operational Level Agreements (OLA). This includes regular performance reporting, monitoring service level infractions, trend and forecasting analyses and developing new SLAs and metrics to inform service demand and quality.

Other duties include:
• Contribute to the development, improvement and maintenance of policies, standards and guidelines for the delivery of Digital services/products.

• Participate in Service Design activities and Testing to inform new and develop existing Service Delivery governance processes.

• Ensure new and changed services are sufficiently and safely supported into live service whilst meeting the expectations of customers and service management standards.

• Perform analysis of specific Service/Operational Level target achievement, providing insight as required to address strategic issues that are not transparent in consolidated Services.

• Consolidate Service capacity planning and forecasting based on multiple client requirements (provided by Demand Management) and report to senior leadership team.

• Support the management and maintenance of the service catalogue relevant to their portfolio and ensure knowledge library is maintained.

• Establish and manage a programme of continual service improvements across the wider support team, ensuring these are aligned to quality management, risk management and security policies and procedures.

• Monitor support services/products effectively and the identified actions to maintain or improve levels of service are implemented. .

• All change is communicated and managed, with appropriate governance.

• Develop plans, supplier agreements, policies and procedures in preparation of delivering live support for new support services/products to end users.

What are we looking for?

ITIL Professional certification or equivalent mandatory.

Displays detailed knowledge and understanding of Digital Products and Services.

Strong customer focus in managing the performance of the products/services within their remit ensuring they continually align to customer expectations and defined service targets.

Ability to coordinate activities for major and business critical events, using effective communication and stakeholder management skills.

Before applying please look at the attached Candidate Pack that goes into more detail about the job role and technical key skills we are looking for

 

Where You’ll Work

You’ll join us in one of our easy-to-reach digital hubs in London or the home counties

 

Each of our hubs is a modern, vibrant workplace that was designed for and by members of our community. Our central hubs have the best of the city on the doorstep, and we have a range of facilities across the sites from cafes, coffee shops and restaurants, to ping pong, a swimming pool, gym facilities and loads more.

Here we provide the latest tech and tooling and foster a collaborative culture to help our agile, multidisciplinary teams think big and try new things. You will work alongside people who care passionately about public service, making a difference and delivering for our customers.

You will be part of a team who provides support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and as a result you may be required to work as part of an on call rota, which will also attract occasional out of hours working (i.e. after 8pm until 8am), and may include travel to different sites.

We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.

Our Offer

In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £43,270, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Building Our Future

We believe the work we do really matters, so we’re serious about investing in your ability.

You’ll have access to a huge suite of training and learning opportunities to complement the new skills and experience you’ll acquire on the job. You’ll share ideas with colleagues from across the tech community, and grow your skills via our coaching and mentoring programmes.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.  If you want to talk about this opportunity before you apply contact me via dean.simon@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

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