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Join WaterAid as a Data Strategy Transformation Programme Lead to empower global communities with your expertise
Overview
Salary £56249 - £59602
Location London, UK (Hybrid Working)
Expires Expires at anytime
WaterAid is an impactful organization dedicated to improving lives through ensuring access to clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene worldwide. They champion diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourage a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute.
- Lead the delivery of WaterAid's data transformation strategy roadmap.
- Provide oversight and coordination for key initiatives and change projects.
- Support income growth and contribute to global wellbeing.
- Proven experience in programme management within data functions.
- Strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with data systems, data management principles, and technologies.
- Proficient in implementing new operating models, especially in data or tech teams.
- Skilled in using Operational Management and productivity tools.
WaterAid offers attractive benefits including a generous pension plan, flexible working arrangements, season ticket loans, eye tests, charitable giving schemes, and enhanced parental leave policies. To apply, submit a combined CV and cover letter in Word or PDF format. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK and pass a basic DBS check.
About WaterAid: WaterAid is a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values. We are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life.
The Role: As our Data Strategy Transformation Programme Lead you will play a pivotal role in delivering our data transformation strategy roadmap, helping ensure that we can achieve our ambitious goals for income growth and ultimately that everyone, everywhere has clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. In this role, you will lead on initiatives, provide programme oversight and coordination and support others delivering change projects.
Job Requirements: You'll be an experienced programme manager with specific experience of working within data functions and driving business improvements. You'll need project management experience, analytical and problem-solving skills and a solution-orientated mindset. A collaborative approach and ability to work across teams and matrix structures with ease. Knowledge and experience of data systems, data management principles and supporting technologies. Experience in implementing operating models and ways of working, ideally in a data or technology team. Experience of utilising Operational Management and productivity tools to manage workload, workflow and prioritisation and to analyse effectiveness.
Benefits: We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%. Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangement. Season Ticket Loan. Free annual eye tests. Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme. Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave. Sabbaticals. Volunteer Day.
Application Details: Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format. Pre-employment screening: To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK. All our vacancies require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.
