Public Sector<\/p>\n
Are you ready to RAAC?<\/p>\n
England’s Department for Education is
\nadvertising a role paying up to \u00a3200,000 a year to lead a new digital and
\ninfrastructure group overseeing school buildings and maintenance, as well as technology and data.<\/p>\n
Its Director General, Digital and
\nInfrastructure, will lead the technology function of
\naround 1,800 staff, develop a new strategy covering digital services, data, and artificial intelligence, and lead work on a unique identifier
\nfor children and other learners in England. Scotland, Wales, and
\nNorthern Ireland run education services on a devolved basis.<\/p>\n
The successful candidate will also “I am looking for a leader who is The department is willing to base the Several other departments have In February, the Ministry of Defence offered \u00a3270,000 to \u00a3300,000
\nimplement a new strategy for “the education estate” of schools,
\ncolleges, nurseries, and children’s homes. The job ad<\/a> warns the function “carries
\nsome of the highest levels of risk and accountability in the
\ndepartment – including life-and-death decisions on safety,” citing\u00a0ongoing work to remove unsafe reinforced
\nautoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) from schools.<\/p>\n
\nmotivated by impact – someone who is able to combine their digital
\nand data expertise with their drive to improve outcomes for children
\nand young people,” writes the department\u2019s permanent secretary, Susan Acland-Hood, in a briefing document with the advert. “Whilst
\nyou do not need to be an expert on education policy, you need to be
\ncurious and committed to rapidly building your understanding of the
\nlatest evidence, system, and policy landscape.”<\/p>\n
\njob in Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Darlington, London, Manchester,
\nNottingham, or Sheffield, although those who do not work in the
\ncapital will need to go there frequently. Applications close on June 1.<\/p>\n
\nrecently advertised digital director-general posts, the civil service
\njob category just below permanent secretary (equivalent to chief
\nexecutive). In January, England’s Department of Health and Social Care
\nadvertised the role of director general for technology, digital and
\ndata<\/a> with a salary of up to \u00a3285,000 a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nfor its chief digital and information
\nofficer job<\/a>.\u00a0And in April, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
\nadvertised for three directors-general<\/a>, one paid \u00a3174,000 and the
\nother two paying between \u00a3200,000 and \u00a3260,000 annually.\u00a0\u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public Sector Are you ready to RAAC? England’s Department for Education is advertising a role paying up to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-589180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}