This role reports to the Deputy Director (Data Strategy and Capabilities Building) and leads organisation-wide Data & AI capability planning, with a strong focus on driving adoption and sustained use across the organisation. The role is accountable for translating Data & AI strategy into tangible adoption outcomes, by designing and executing approaches that embed Data & AI into day-to-day work.
Responsibilities:
Key responsibilities include:
Adoption Strategy & Delivery
· Lead organisation-wide Data & AI capability planning and adoption efforts aligned to enterprise priorities
· Translate strategy into clear adoption approaches that drive usage and behavioural change
· Identify barriers to adoption and implement targeted interventions (e.g. pilots, campaigns, initiatives) to improve uptake
· Track adoption outcomes (e.g. participation, usage, impact) and refine approaches based on results
Adoption Design
· Develop clear and compelling adoption propositions for different stakeholder groups, articulating relevance and value
· Design approaches that build momentum and participation (e.g. champions networks, communities of practice, targeted engagement efforts)
· Shape how Data & AI is positioned and communicated across the organisation to drive understanding and interest
Portfolio & Stakeholder Management
· Oversee a portfolio of capability and adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment and scalability across the organisation
· Work across technical, strategy, and programme teams to bridge capability development and actual adoption outcomes
· Engage senior stakeholders to drive ownership, prioritisation, and sustained participation
· Support transition of initiatives from exploration into operational use
Planning & Reporting
· Provide planning and coordination across capability and adoption workstreams
· Track progress, risks, dependencies, and adoption outcomes for management reporting
· Support prioritisation and resource alignment across initiatives
Requirements:
- At least 6–8 years of relevantexperience in programme management, transformation, data or digital roles.
- Strong ability to operate across technical and non‑technical contexts.
- Good understanding of enterprise Data and AI considerations, including governance and infrastructure.
- Strong planning, synthesis and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Comfortable operating across strategy and execution in a complex organisational environment.
Successful candidates will be offered a 1-year contract with potential for a 1-year extension and consideration for permanent tenure thereafter.
All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting
