Head of Analytics & AI

Requirements of the role

Contracted to our Wilmslow, London, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast office, however, we offer flexible home and office-based working opportunities. There will be times when you will be expected to attend the office to collaborate with colleagues or travel due to business need.

Why work for the ICO?

• Pay progression scheme.
• Hybrid and flexible working options.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, plus privilege and public holidays.
• Flexi leave (up to 26 additional days leave per year).
• Pension (employer contribution around 28.9%).
• Online discount scheme to save money at major supermarkets, retailers, gyms, restaurants, insurance providers and many more.
• Health Cash Plan.
• Fantastic development opportunities to learn and progress.

Further details can be found on the benefits section of our website .

Job summary

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new opportunity within the ICO! As the leader of our Analytics and AI function, reporting directly to the Director of Data, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions. You’ll be at the forefront of our Enterprise Data Strategy, fostering the growth of our people, processes, and technology to ensure exceptional data analytics practices. Join us and be a part of our dynamic journey towards excellence!

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights. In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.

Job description

The role will lead our analytics and AI function, providing oversight of analytics and AI within the wider Data Team, and supporting analytics capabilities distributed across the organisation.

The role will oversee the delivery of analytics and AI solutions that deliver value and benefit to the organisation, ensuring outputs are high quality, accurate, and consider data privacy and data ethics by design.  Outputs might include reports and dashboards, data and statistical analyses, or products that utilise artificial intelligence technologies.

The role will contribute towards wider objectives belonging to our Enterprise Data Strategy (EDS), including our new data literacy initiative, the ICO Data Academy, to empower ICO’s people to better use and analyse data.

The role will develop the necessary capabilities (people, processes, and technology) to support existing analytics communities across the ICO, and to assure effective data analytics practices throughout the organisation.

Key responsibilities:

• To lead our new analytics and AI capability within the organisation and to ensure delivery of timely, accurate and impactful analytics and AI products that align with business strategies and provide value
• Line management of existing analytics team, and to play a coordinating and supporting role with analytics capabilities existing across the organisation
• To identify, define and prioritise new AI opportunities that might offer value to the organisation.  You will be able to work closely with business stakeholders to understand their priorities and challenges, bringing this together with your technical understanding of AI / analytics approaches, to determine practical solutions
• Establishing mechanisms / frameworks that provide assurances that AI solutions are built responsibly, and considerations such as explainability, ethics, and model performance are thoroughly considered and monitored
• Ensure appropriate product delivery mechanisms and methods are used to retain critical stakeholder engagement throughout the development of solutions, and successful embedment at the time of implementation.
• Work closely with the Director of Data, Head of Data Management and Head of Data Platform to ensure our approach to AI and analytics is both impactful and responsible
• To take a leading role in progressing our new data literacy initiative – the ICO Data Academy – helping to support the empowerment of data skills and awareness for our colleagues, and supporting the broader data analytics community that exists within the ICO
• Remain continuously informed of new developments in the fields of data analytics and AI, so to be able to assess whether emerging techniques and innovation might be applied within the organisation for to drive new impact and value
• Supporting the Director of Data, and our Data, AI, and Automation Programme, in executing our Enterprise Data Strategy.

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