Department advertises a vacant post for a recruit to sit at the head of a small team charged with leading initiatives including the development and implementation of new information standards

The Home Office is seeking to hire a leader to take charge of efforts to improve the quality of data held and used by the department.

The department is advertising a vacant post as strategic data quality change and co-ordination lead. The successful candidate will assume oversight and leadership of “efforts across the Home Office that improve and maintain the quality of the data”, according to the job advert.

This work “requires close collaboration on multiple cross-cutting projects with stakeholders across the department [including] operational colleagues, data architects, data owners, and data stewards”. 

The postholder will sit at the head of a newly created team of about three people with a responsibility to “lead on the implementation and maintenance of an updated Data Quality Framework”.

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The advert says: “New artefacts will need developing and existing ones require updating, this will include driving the adoption of data quality tooling across the department, supporting the development of data quality training, and facilitating the development of data standards.”

It adds: “Part of the role includes co-ordinating a central understanding of data quality in the Home Office and identifying gaps and supporting teams to address them. This includes working closely with technology colleagues to understand issues and drive solutions.” 

The position, which can be based in Liverpool, Manchester or London, comes with a salary of up to £70,730. The Home Office stipulates that, in addition to solid credentials in data management, applicants must also possess “good people-management skills, [and be] able to build, lead and motivate a team, setting clear priorities and adapting quickly to fit skills and resources to ensure the delivery of timely and high-quality outputs”.

The advert stresses that candidates will have a “unique and exciting opportunity… [to] make a tangible difference to national operations”.

“The Home Office is one of the government’s largest data processors and it values data as its second most important asset, after its people,” it adds. “The department has a vision that ‘we will use data and information as strategic assets for the public good’ and to become more data driven. High-quality data is vital for supporting this work by thousands of colleagues across the department.”