The Specification of DDaT Technical Roles

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Why the Work is Being Done To • allow DDAT Leadership to undertake effective and efficient resource planning and budgeting by using consistent granular role descriptions for DDAT technical roles • inform and enable DDAT’s Strategy for building effective people capability in-house over time • provide a powerful incentive for attracting and retaining talent through clearly defined, market-relevant learning role definitions and career pathways • enable effective programme mobilisation and execution through improving inter-operability and collaboration between the different roles • improve efficiency / effectiveness of DDAT recruitment through provision of clearly defined skills requirements and job descriptions Problem to Be Solved A coherent structure of roles and responsibilities defined with career paths and a development framework will enable the recruitment at all levels of staff who can be trained into the skills of the future. Who Are the Users The team leading the transformation of the structure of DDaT together with Recruiters / line managers / individual staff that need to clearly set out the structure of roles and responsibilities throughout the organisation. Early Market Engagement Work Already Done The Cross Government Framework for the DDaT Profession has defined a number of roles within a ‘technical’ cluster, and some engineering roles in the IT Operations cluster. There is a definition of capabilities for each role. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-data-and-technology-job-roles-in-government These need to be clarified and enhanced to provide a framework that can be used throughout Home Office DDaT. Any missing elements also need to be identified. Existing Team The supplier will be working with the profession lead, and technical leads in DDaT Current Phase Not applicable Work Location Home Office locations in Croydon, London, and Supplier premises Working Arrangments This is envisaged as a fixed price engagement with agreed outputs. It is expected that some of this will be achieved working on-site working with role leads. Remaining work can be off-site. Normal operational hours of Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Security Clearance All staff must hold or be prepared to undergo CTC Security Clearance to operate on this project. Additional T&Cs Exit Activities / knowledge transfer Skills & Experience Evidence a deep understanding of IT operations skills and capability requirements. Evidence experience of completing Training Needs Analysis for IT technical services. Evidence experience of creating Training Plans for IT services. Be able to provide personnel with TNA development experience Demonstrate that the supplier understands the training market, types of training available and explanation of a methodology to support evaluation. Be able to demonstrate, with previous outputs, process followed, the type of information gathered and used and the level of detail including graphical and backup data as output Nice to Haves Evidence experience of working in a challenging and complex private or public sector technical environment with regularly changing priorities. Evidence a strong knowledge of and experience working with IT technical services within the private or public sector. No. of Suppliers to Evaluate 4 Proposal Criteria Team structure, capability and experience (15%) Capability to develop a technical skills framework (15%) Methodology approach that you plan to use (10%) Risks Dependencies and Assumptions (10%) Delivery timescales (10%) Cultural Fit Criteria Open and collaborative team approach Flexible working by time and location Committed to collaborative team working Payment Approach Fixed price Assessment Method Written proposal Case study Work history Presentation Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range