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| Department | Coastal Partners Assurance Service |
Vacancy Details:
- Career Grade: I £52,413 to £56,755 per annum
- Full Time / Permanent
- Local Government pension scheme
- Flexible / Hybrid working
- Closing Date 26th July 2026
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team of experts.
At Coastal Partners, we manage coastal flood and erosion risk across 246km of coastline in five Local Authorities: Fareham Borough Council, Gosport Borough Council, Portsmouth City Council, Havant Borough Council and Chichester District Council. This area includes three major harbours of significant environmental importance. We aim at improving community resilience and enhancing the natural environment in response to the risks from flooding and coastal erosion.
The Role
This is a new and exciting opportunity for a Digital Transformation and Data Officer in our service. This new post will lead digital organisational change, leveraging technology, data analytics and artificial intelligence to optimise business processes. The role will be responsible for the management of all data and IT solutions, including GIS across multiple platforms, data storage, database development and management, technical data analysis, interpretation of data, mapping and creating end user products.
Responsibilities will include:
- Lead a review of our data and IT requirements across our service and recommend and implement solutions.
- Management of IT, data storage and programme licences.
- Helping us develop new business systems, finance reporting systems, dashboards and strategic tools to future-proof our service.
- Creating online collaborative workspaces for projects including questionnaires, story maps and innovative stakeholder engagement tools.
- Help us develop our GIS project mapping and undertake advanced data analysis.
- Creating and maintaining a new GIS based asset inspection database - a system to help us collect in the field coastal asset data and help us understand and visualise it.
- Streamlining parts of our Planning and Development Management response process including creating spatial mapping and automated response templates.
Experience and Skills
- A degree or a related industry recognised qualification and / or equivalent extensive experience in a relevant role.
- Extensive skills and experience in the use of IT applications and data including GIS software packages and databases.
- Experience of overseeing and managing organisational data management and business processes.
- Experience of working in the environmental and place-based space with the ability to solve complex issues with the use of data.
- Experience of delivering organisational change and strategy in relation to data management, analysis, transformation, and use.
What Skills do I need?
- Ability to solve complex issues with the use of data.
- Ability to identify and deliver new project opportunities.
- Excellent numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to see the broader picture, draw conclusions and develop recommendations.
- Ability to work collaboratively, diplomatically, and confidently.
- Political awareness.
- Highly effective and engaging written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work to demanding deadlines and solve problems.
We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package with a competitive salary, support for your continuous professional development, flexible / hybrid working with a generous leave allowance and membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
Find out more about us on our website: https://coastalpartners.org.uk/join-the-team/ or visit us at Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Christine Mansley, Coastal Assurance Service Manager via email: christine.mansley@havant.gov.uk