Join Police Digital Service as Strategic Target Operating Model Consultant.

This is a contractor position until February 2024.

Competitive Salary

The Police Digital Service is the UK organisation responsible for coordinating, developing, delivering, and managing digital services and solutions that enable UK policing to safely harness technology to improve public safety. Funded by policing, PDS works with law enforcement organisations, private industry, charities, public bodies, and government to deliver digital services and solutions with policing, for policing.

To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.

Ours is a team of experts in commercial services, technical assurance, data, digital transformation and innovation, with unique experience in policing and national programme delivery. Together with our public and private sector colleagues, we are driving several ‘in-flight’ national programmes.

The PDS is the delivery vehicle for the National Digital Strategy which we co-authored with the National Police Technology Council and launched at our Police Digital Summit in 2020.

Key Responsibilities:

Development of PDS Target Operating Model – Outcome of the work will be a new PDS TOM – Responsibilities of supporting the work for the following:

• The review of the current high level defined PDS Services.
• Assure that departmental services are aligned to deliver against the high level PDS services defined
• Review of proposed PDS organisational structure will deliver the departmental services.
• Assess the proposed PDS organisational structure in relation to workflow through the organisation.
• Consider PDS internal governance (aligned with external stakeholders) to deliver the PDS Services
• Assist in the redevelopment of the PDS Business Plan to align to the development of PDS capabilities and services

National Digital Strategy Refresh – Outcome of the work will be the ‘sign-off’ of the National Digital Strategy through NPCC Governance. Responsibilities of support the work for the following:

• The management of the collation of feedback from senior stakeholder to ensure it is appropriately adopted into the new refreshed Strategy.
• Review of the refreshed Strategy to ensure consistent tone throughout the document.

Please note. we require candidates to ensure you share your day rate expectations on the application form.

Why Join us?

• Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
• Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
• We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
• Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
• Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
• Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
• Community - one paid day off per year for volunteering

You can find out more here:
Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)

About Police Digital Service

To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.

Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.

Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.

Our Values are:

• We value People
• We do the right thing
• We are innovative
• We are one Team
• We are proud and passionate

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

Working Arrangements

This is a remote role.