The role:

Northumbria Police is entering an exciting new era of change in which the bedrock services of Information, Communication and Technology will be strengthened and extended to include a much more granular and tailored digital approach to supporting Policing across Northumbria.

This pivotal role will report to the CIO and will have the gravitas to deputise for the CIO on key Force and Digital Policing meetings as required.

The new Enterprise Architect (EA) will be in the great position of building a brand new Enterprise Architecture Practise (EAP). They will be expected to provide leadership and management in the development of the Enterprise Wide Technical Architecture (EWTA). Alongside their team of Architects, the EA will define, justify and maintain the technology blueprint, standards, methods, principles, governance and technology systems architecture that will be used to support and deliver the Policing capabilities and future ways of working outlined in the Force Operating Model and strategy.

This will involve

• Aligning the IT Strategy with the Force Strategy and Force Operating Model
• Provide quality assurance and visioning across the use of technology to enable positive Force change
• Prepare EA business case, exposing benefits and drivers, financial merits
• Provide, as part of the EA practice capability, guidance and join up thinking across the domains of Networks, Infrastructure, Applications, Data, Information, and Security

In return for your dedication and experience, we offer 23 days’ leave, excluding bank holidays, increasing to 28 days for 5 years+ service.  We support our people inside and out of work – offering a very competitive pension scheme, childcare vouchers, and discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card. And to take care of your physical and mental well-being, we’ve invested in trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service and access to gyms in some stations.  We also offer flexible working both from an agile approach to work location through to flexing how you want to work your contracted hours to accommodate both successful service delivery and a healthy, balanced home life.

What will I be doing?

Initially the Enterprise Architect will establish the Enterprise Architecture Practice and will have the great opportunity to put their own stamp on this new function. Establishing from scratch the working practices, process and objectives and shaping the team and to work with the other Digital Policing Leadership team to adapt existing ways of working, refine the accountabilities and introduce appropriate EA governance across the team  

The role key activities will be

1. To play a pivotal role in the Digital Policing Management Team and deputise for the CIO in key meetings
2. To manage the welfare and personal development of the EA Practice
3. To define principles and IT standards across the technology towers of End user device, Infrastructure, Networks, Applications and Service promoting interoperability, agility and value for money.
4. Develop an overarching Digital Policing Strategy and achieve understanding and buy in from the Chief officer team and Police Commissioner
5. To influence, speed up and gain maximum value out of new change initiatives and to nurture and exploit new ideas and new ways to simplify and reuse.

What do I need?

A more detailed overview of the essential and desirable criteria for the post is available in the associated job description.

The successful candidate will be recognised as a visionary with excellent technical and analytical abilities, with a deep understanding of the IT Industry policies, practices and have a working knowledge of current Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF etc).

They will be comfortable at operating at all levels with strong interpersonal skills and will be able to build and sustain relationships across the force, providing technology & strategic input into business initiatives as well as collaborating closely with local and national partners and communities, constantly seeking opportunities for sharing ideas, technology, solutions and information that support the Force strategy.

Once the team is established, the post holder will be expected to introduce processes and procedures to continually improve the Architecture services being provided. Defining and measuring key performance indicators and establishing quality levels across the team.

As part of the Digital Policing leadership team, the Enterprise Architect will provide direction, understanding and priority on the Force Transformation programmes, directly influencing and refining the IT strategy and multi-year technology plans.    

Vetting level:  MV and SC

Applicants 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. 

Northumbria Police fully supports a policy of equal opportunities and 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. Appointments are based on merit alone

What Is Front Of The Pack ?

We’re a team of experienced entrepreneurs, nutritional research scientists and medical professionals who believe that science-led products can play a role in the story of a healthier future for our furry pals.

Our pet wellness brand Front Of The Pack sets an exceptionally high bar for clinical evidence, proof, efficacy and quality.

What we are for is clinically backed pet health products, submitted to academic study and scrutiny and telling unique stories to educate and enchant highly informed and health conscious customers.

We arealso for turning complex science into clear English, and making a wide range of highly innovative and proprietary products that elevate the health of both humans and companion animals.

What we are against is stolen science, shady ‘wellness’ trends and the overwhelming amount of misinformation online.

Our Chief Science & Innovation Officer is one of the most respected and pioneering forces in the dietary supplement industry, having created whole, billion dollar, evidence-based categories, leading over 50 university-based studies across a wide range of applications, and introduced ingredients that are nothing less than global blockbuster.

We are looking to make our first key hire in our growth marketing team - might you be the person we are looking for?

What is the Vision, Mission and Purpose of Front Of The Pack?

Our long term vision is to reinvent the health and wellness category by building a global brand in pet wellness, with sustainable, eco-conscious products that are as good for the pet as they are for the planet.

Our mission to achieve our vision over the next 12 months is to launch more great products that customers love. Simple! We're already looking beyond our initial products to new ones in different functional health areas and highly innovative. Exciting!

Our purpose keeps us focussed on why we exist and this is to lead an evolution in the role, and prominence of evidence in the supplement space so that customers are genuinely informed, educated and empowered to improve the their companion animals for the better. Here's to raising the bar

Our first products are:

The One, a revolutionary blend of the most clinically-proven (in dogs!) ingredients to be used in a dog supplement, ever. With its 8 benefits in one, it offers an unparalleled way to provide your bestie with top-to-tail preventative support in one simple daily dose.

Move, a pure powder supplement that restores cartilage, soothes muscles and promotes healthy joint function throughout all stages of their life.

Harmony, an innovative, category-creating, non-drowsy calming supplement for your dog that helps promote a sense of calm and stress-free, relaxing mindset in under 90 minutes.

These products launched summer 2020, and have grown a highly dedicated early user base (we immediately went back into production due to pre-order demand).

We spent 9 months in development creating highly innovative products that deliver powerful, pure and proven with real scientific efficacy.

We do all of our design in-house and we manage each and every part of the development of our products - whether thats sourcing sustainable materials for packaging, procuring hard-to-find and innovative ingredients, developing specific and detailed blending and production processes to ensure quality and longevity of our product or innovating with genuinely new processes.

The Team:

Founded by experienced Co-Founders Neil Hutchinson (Forward Internet Group (Forward3D (>$50m exit), uSwitch (>$100m exit), Forward Partners and Kindness.org) and Chris Wilkinson (The Up Group (Acq: Alexander Mann Solutions), Forward Partners, Paws.com )

Who we are looking for:

Joining the Front Of The Pack team at this exciting, early and pivotal stage of our journey will require you to be someone who thrives on getting stuck into challenges by being curious, a fast learner who quickly adapts, a natural team player who is outcome focussed. Driven by being given the freedom to execute on delivering the business objectives.

The type of person you are and your values is just as important to us as your skills and experience as we are passionate about building an exceptional team of people who work well together.

What do those values look like?

• Bounce Back Ability = Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author of Anti Fragile & The Black Swan) talks of "Things That Gain From Disorder". As a group of people that have all come from very fast moving and ambitious startups we have found that the key indicator for success, and crucially enjoyment, is folks that benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. They easily bounce back from inevitable setbacks and thrive on challenge. Is this you?
• Ship, Shipmate, Self = First comes the company, then your team, finally yourself. In that order. Is that how you think about things?
• 11x = Strive for the best, expect the same from your team mates and always go for gold. Is this how you think about things?
• Be Kind = Before you roll your eyes and think here is another 'motherhood and apple pie' value, one of our founders (our CEO!) founded Kindness.org to spread more kindness around the world. It really is a value for us. We are human, we have challenges, we are vulnerable and make mistakes. Be kind.

We have a lot of experience in turning values into real living actions within companies. If they resonate with you then join us at the foundational stage and help us turn these aspirational set of values into long lasting, recognisable attributes of Front Of The Pack.

Requirements

What you will be doing…

As one of the 1st full-time hires in the newly formed Growth team you will be immediately responsible for:

• Strategy, execution and optimisation of the company’s performance based, direct-response advertising across Facebook, Native, Search & Display
• Creating ad copy, headlines, imagery and videos for advertisements
• Writing copy for, and collaborating with teams of coders, video editors, and graphic designers to optimize sales funnels, create ad campaigns, and design A/B tests
• Managing upwards of $500,000 monthly ad spend
• Analysing web metrics, providing campaign reports, and optimizing traffic for maximum profitability
• Hitting monthly traffic, spend, revenue and CPA targets

Next Challenge - >1 year on

Scale and lead the team required to take Front Of The Pack to hundreds of thousands of customers.

What will help to do your job well?

• Minimum 3-5 years experience running performance marketing campaigns
• In depth knowledge of scaling Facebook advertising campaigns to over $500k a month
• Experience running native advertising campaigns at scale (Taboola, Outbrain, Yahoo Gemini etc)
• Experience running Google Search, Display and Shopping ads

Responsibilities:

• Developing and executing FOTPs multi-channel performance marketing strategy
• Manage daily operations of paid social, display and native advertising campaigns
• Provide hands-on optimization of ad campaigns across all marketing channels towards the company’s performance targets
• Analyse campaign performance data and constantly optimize, feeding back to the team what is/is not working

• CRO knowledge
• Direct Response copywriting skills (ad and landing page copy)
• Direct Response creative skills (video and image ads)
• SEO knowledge

Working at Front Of The Pack

• Being part of a small team means you will have the chance to really help shape the future of Front Of The Pack, working closely with the founders and our team of world-class advisors.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and embrace diversity in our culture. We strive to create a happy and healthy workplace for the team.
• We promote a culture of a flexible working - we are outcome/results driven & appreciate great people have family lives too.
• We also offer a budget for personal professional development as well as personal physical and emotional development.
• We have regular social events.

Benefits

More info...

• Front Of The Pack is based in LA and London
• Front Of The Pack is venture funded by tier 1 VC's in London and California to the tune of multiples of millions of dollars. Consequently we have a healthy runway even before accounting for revenues from sales. (We are tight lipped on this as we are not big on PR and shouting about un earned success, we prefer to let our track record do the talking - of course we will discuss our position in interviews openly)
• This role is based in the UK at the London HQ,
• This role reports into our Head of Growth with a close link to the Co-Founders
• This role is pitched at a competitive base + lucrative commission structure & equity (you can expect to double your base salary in year 1)
• This role will come with equity
• This role does have a benefits package associated with it

The Chief Architect works with clients to develop pragmatic but effective information technology roadmaps that will help them achieve their strategic aims.

They will strengthen the position of MASS as a trusted ‘Customer Friend’ by advising and guiding ‘intelligent customers’ to accelerate and enable their technology initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop technical aspects of a customer’s strategy that align with business goals

Develop trustful relationships at CxO level that make it possible for you to advise and influence them and bring intelligence back in house

Define standards, policy, processes and best practice in collaboration with other architecture teams and design authorities; communicate effectively to share and advocate this knowledge

Provide architectural direction to Engineering and Project Management teams

Work collaboratively with technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their respective domains

Research new vendors, technologies and solutions to validate capabilities and ensure appropriate levels of assurance

Knowledge/Skills/Experience:

The successful candidate will have experience:

• Working as a Chief Architect or CTO role in a medium to large enterprise
• Working directly with clients, including facilitating workshops, to design solutions that improve or demonstrate innovation and value to clients
• Managing an in-flight technical rollout and support for an intelligent customer, ideally on both customer and supplier side architecting solutions that replace and retire legacy solutions
• Implementing multivendor solutions across a broad portfolio of technologies and products
• Interpreting & implementing HMG security policy
• Stakeholder management and technology partnership in a multi-product or transformational environment

Knowledge and skills are likely to include:

• Technical and procedural / administrative challenges associated with IT transformation
• Producing strategy documents and security architecture design documents
• Exercising leadership by influencing stakeholders and teams not under your direct control, including conflict resolution
• Securely handling sensitive data

Applicants must be eligible to work and live in the UK and will be required to undergo and maintain appropriate UK government security clearance.

This role requires weekly travel to the Bristol site.

MASS are an equal opportunities employer.

The North Wales Economic Ambition Board is looking for a Transport Lead Officer to join its team.  This role will give you the opportunity to work with multiple public and private sector partners across Wales and the UK. It provides flexible working arrangements, generous annual leave entitlement, a local government pension scheme plus training and professional development opportunities within a supportive environment.
We are growing our team at the North Wales Economic Ambition Board and are looking for a someone to join us and help deliver the Growth Vision for North Wales. The aim is to build a more vibrant, sustainable and resilient economy in North Wales, building on our strengths to boost productivity while tackling long-term challenges and economic barriers to deliver inclusive growth.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic officer to lead the development of our programme, working closely with our Delivery Sub-Board which reports to the North Wales Economic Ambition Board with representatives from the six local authorities in North Wales and leads on all matters relating to transport.
As the Transport Lead Officer your responsibilities will include:

• Working across the region, planning and co-ordinating joined up and integrated transport solutions;
• Advising on responses to government proposals and planning the delivery of strategic interventions;
• Prepare responses for region on strategic transport issues, consultations, and strategy documents;
• Lead the preparation of the Regional Local Planning Process and manage the development of the plan;
• Identify funding opportunities and work with partners on bids to secure investment funding for capital schemes and revenue funding for service improvements. 
• Support the NWEAB Sub-Board, its Chair and Chief Officer Group, prepare and manage agenda, papers and follow up to decisions.
• Maintain strategic oversight of regionally significant projects.

We are interested in speaking to people about the Transport Lead Officer role with the following skills and experience:

• Degree / postgraduate in a relevant field (or equivalent);
• A recognised planning, construction or traffic / transport engineering qualification;
• Demonstrable senior level experience in strategic planning of traffic and vehicles;
• High level negotiating skills including securing approvals within complex governance arrangements;
• Good knowledge of programme and project management methods;
• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills;
• Ability to present, use and interpret information confidently;
• Whilst the ability to speak Welsh is desirable, it is not essential for this role.

In return, the Transport Lead Officer will receive a salary of £51,574 – £54,968 pa.  This is a full-time role; however, we will consider flexible working requests for the right person.  Initially this is a fixed term post until June 2023, with the possibility of an extension. 

If this sounds like the role for you, click the apply button online and we will contact you with the next steps in the application process.  We look forward to hearing from you.  North Wales is an excellent place to live and work, why not play a key role in shaping its future?

Interviews are to be held on 24 March 2021.  Application Closing Date: 10am on 3 March 2021.  All application documents will need to be submitted by this date.  On applying you will be sent further instructions as to the application process.

*This post is part funded by the European Social Fund through the Welsh Government.  

Softcat is one of the UK’s leading technology solutions businesses. Thanks to the success and growth of our services, we offer an increasingly broad range of tech careers. There could be a bright future for you if you’re interested in software, networking, analytics or cyber security.

Success. The Softcat way.

Softcat is a £1billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.

Your role

The Account Chief Technologist will be working with key, strategic accounts to help them drive largescale transformation. The role is pivotal in bridging the gap between business problems and technology solutions for our top tier customers. Engaging at senior level (CxO) to influence customer strategy and become a trusted advisor, you’ll lead the Architecture team within an account or sector, ensuring the solutions proposed are fit for purpose and provide good value, as well as functioning as a proactive member of the relevant Sector/Account leadership teams.

The expectation will be to provide leadership input into transformational sales opportunities within accounts, identify and analyse requirements and customer problems, develop suitable architectures, and lead a virtual team including the Softcat and Partner network. You will support Solution Specialists and Account Management by helping identify and qualify solution opportunities including bid support as required. Additionally, you will attend customer opportunity and strategy meetings.

Your remit will see you actively contribute to the Softcat Propositions and standards, as well as to the corporate strategy by suggesting new service capabilities, bringing together services across contracted services and solutions.

What we need from you

• Enterprise Architecture and/or Consultancy and/or CTO and/or CIO level experience
• Experience at leading major largescale transformational programmes
• Relationship focused; experience of building relationships at the highest levels within enterprise customers, becoming a trusted advisor on a technology basis
• Excellent negotiating skills and exceptional commercial skills
• Knowledge of and experience in designing and implementing solutions comprising of multiple technologies and business applications
• Commercially astute with governance experience
• Demonstrable experience in having previously identified and led cross working party initiatives through discovery, selection, implementation, and continuous review to assure customer satisfaction
• Ability to present to an external audience, both business and technical; with a track record of presenting at board level
• Good people management, leadership, demonstrable time management and organisational skills, ability to lead large virtual teams
• Proven ability producing documentation for a business and technical audience
• Good problem determination and analysis skills, lateral and highly creative thinking
• Strong team player both as part of virtual team
• Must be credible in communicating around technical issues / solutions
• Energy, dynamism, and technology evangelism (for example: through thought leadership, networking events, white papers and publications)

Rewards

We offer a good salary and benefits package including a pension scheme, life assurance, healthcare cash plan and access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all things perks and benefits at Softcat. It’s designed to give you the flexibility and choice to suit your lifestyle and needs - there really is something for everyone. So whether it’s activity passes or technology discount vouchers you’re after, or you would prefer to buy extra holiday for yourself, or add your partner or family to some of the benefits… it’s entirely up to you. We’ll even give you an extra day’s holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday.

Apply now

To become part the success story, please apply below now!

Softcat is an inclusive company where you can enjoy the career you want, without changing the person you are. We’re welcoming to all and passionate about promoting greater diversity in the tech sector.

AlixPartners – Who are we?

AlixPartners is a leading global business advisory firm of results-oriented professionals who specialize in bringing value and restoring performance at every stage of the business life cycle. We thrive on our ability to make a difference in high-impact situations and deliver sustainable, bottom-line results. We work in small, highly qualified teams with specific industry and functional expertise, and we operate at pace, moving quickly from analysis to implementation. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver.

The position and team:

AlixPartners requires a competent and dedicated individual who can assist the MD Recruiting Team  and the Firm with the wider growth agenda - on a fixed-term contract for 6 months.

The MD Recruitment Assistant will report into the Global Managing Director and Director Managing Director Recruiting and will partner closely with them to ensure a first class Recruiting experience for very senior candidates. 

This is an exciting opportunity to join an accomplished and professional organization in a period of high growth and development and to work with a true C-Suite population.

The MD Recruiting Assistant will reside in the Partnership Matters Office, a team that is focused on the strategic growth of AlixPartners through the addition of external senior talent.

He/she will work closely with the firm’s Managing Directors and their teams, external agencies and practice leadership across our four consulting divisions.

This is a fast paced, high energy, high profile recruitment position that requires strong attention to detail, superior organizational ability, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a genuine can-do attitude. We are a collaborative, global team that plays a key role in the growth of the firm and its future.

Duties and responsibilities:

•  Manage the day-to-day operations of the MD Recruitment team including scheduling interviews, aligning internal stakeholders, and maintaining our technology systems.
• Manage the MD candidate experience by liaising with candidates and external partners to ensure a best-in-class process for all applicants.
• Support the MD Recruitment team with market research and identifying of potential candidates
• Ability to handle global matters and interact with people throughout EMEA, the US and Asia
• Be the advocate / link between the candidate and the business – we stay in close contact with every candidate to provide a smooth, transparent experience.
• Own our applicant tracking system / CRM and ensure accurate pipeline reporting for our team and the stakeholders of the firm.
• Ad hoc project work to support both the Global Managing Director and Global Director of MD Recruitment in advancing our function.
• Coordinate with our Organizational Development team to initiate and track our candidate assessment process.
• Assist the MD Recruiting Team with recruitment campaigns via LinkedIn and other talent resources.
• Work with our team to identify and vet the best possible recruitment providers to fulfill our hiring mandates.

 Background and qualifications:

• A successfully finished Education or Bachelor's degree
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) required; database and HR information system experience preferred
• An understanding or exposure to HR administration activities in a fast pace environment and an understanding of the synergy between recruitment and the wider HR function
• Ideally Multi-lingual – English mandatory, other languages are desirable

 Personal competencies:

• Top notch communication skills, and the ability to professionally manage expectations, drive communication and operate with clarity and transparency
• Strong team-orientation and team-spirit and hands-on delivery attitude
• Experience in dealing with multiple senior stakeholders within a fast pace environment
• Exhibiting a “can do attitude” by being willing to get involved whenever and wherever necessary
• Very good attention to detail and takes pride in documentation, working practices and strives for excellence
• Excellent organizational skills and able to work to structured and time pressured deadlines
• Has a strong desire to constantly upgrade own knowledge

Working Across the EU: Applicants need to have their own documents or work permits in place that enable them to travel and work across the European Union

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.