ESN Project Lead

What you’ll bring

• Significant experience delivering Digital Policing projects, with a strong understanding of force service provision and operational areas impacted by ESN and a proven ability to transition solutions from development into live service.
• Demonstrable strategic thinking and action planning capability, with a goal focused approach, strong organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple complex activities in a dynamic and changing environment.
• Proven experience of estimating and managing significant budgets to support the effective delivery of ESMCP services, ensuring value for money and alignment with business priorities.
• Expert at rapidly understanding customer challenges, analysing complex requirements and translating technical and business needs into credible, pragmatic solutions.
• Lead, motivate and develop teams in line with strategic objectives, demonstrating a strong commitment to customer service, continuous improvement and effective engagement with senior officers and leadership teams.
• Develop and manage resource and capacity plans to support the delivery of digital services, including succession planning, and maintain effective supplier relationships to maximise organisational value.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Just so you know

• Candidates with priority status will be given precedence for this role over other applicants.
• Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a ESN Project Lead with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV)/ Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.