Location

London, Glasgow, Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield. Frequent travel to 2 Marsham Street, London will be required if based elsewhere in the UK.

About The Job

Job summary

Home Office Digital designs, builds and runs the technology and services that deliver, at scale, some of the UK’s most critical and well-used public services. The digital capability plays a critical part in every part of the Home Office in delivering its mission from how we secure the border and control immigration to issues passports and reducing and preventing crime, supporting these services that impact millions of people every year.

The Home Office Digital estate consists of more than 600 systems, enabling critical services such as;

• 13 million Electronic Travel Authorisations since launch
• 3 million visa applications annually
• 130 million border checks each year
• 7 million passport applications annually
• 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property

Migration and Borders Digital (M&B Digital) is part of Home Office Digital. We are a Portfolio of around 3,500 dedicated professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system. Working closely with colleagues in the Migration and Borders mission, we also support a number of the Home Office's capabilities such as Citizenship Services, Immigration Enforcement, Border Force and the Asylum Group. We jointly design services, build, run and sustain them to enable some of the government’s most important strategic outcomes, notably the legitimate movement of people and goods to support economic prosperity.

Job Description

There are four roles available:

• Asylum Independent Immigration Appeals Authority Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership and programme delivery of the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA) Programme. This role leads the design, development and delivery of the Programme including all related products and digital services across Home Office Digital, overseeing a blended team of approximately 50 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget of circa £60 million. The programme scope and budget continues to develop and be defined.
• Asylum Transformation Digital Deputy Director – This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the totality of Asylum Group Directorate and Programmatic structures, part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Asylum related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million.
• Borders, Compliance and Enforcement Digital Deputy Director – This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the Border Security Command (BSC) including Home Office Intelligence (HOI), Immigration Enforcement (IE) and Border Force (BF), all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of BSC, IE and BF related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million
• Passports, Citizenship & Civil Registration Digital Deputy Director – This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the UK’s passport and civil registration domains, all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Passports and Civil Registration products, platforms and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 600 Civil Servants and suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £100 million.