Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£45,900 to £45,900 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oldham
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Oct 2026
Closing date:	25 Oct 2026

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Summary

Do you have experience in building trusted relationships with stakeholders, influencing senior leaders, and providing clear, practical advice on governance, risk and controls?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager who will help our team to provide the insight and assurance that enables informed decision-making across DVSA. Working closely with senior leaders and colleagues across the agency and wider government, you'll champion a positive governance and assurance culture, support effective risk management, and ensure digital decision-makers have the right information at the right time to protect and enhance our vital public services.

You’ll be our lead on specific deliverables within the team, including managing our digital spend approvals process, delivering key digital forums, and providing advice and guidance to colleagues on our processes.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Our team purpose is to use insight from governance, risk and control to bring clarity so that decision makers in DVSA can make informed choices.

The role holder will support the Head of Digital Governance to develop the right relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring Governance is seamless and supportive.

You will engage confidently with senior leaders, and Project SROs in DVSA, championing the assurance principles and values and encouraging a positive, transparent assurance culture across the Agency, by providing sound assurance advice on governance, risk and appropriate controls and seeking to improve business control processes and reporting.

You will work collaboratively with colleagues within DVSA and externally across government to be the first point of contact on digital governance and assurance related issues and information, ensuring that decision makers are informed and are taking account of the right information at the right time and responding to risks to ensure that DVSA’s service provision is maintained.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Own the end-to-end process for digital spend approvals within DVSA, ensuring compliance with internal, GDS and wider cross-governmental assurance requirements, providing expert advice and guidance, and leading on continuous improvement in alignment with digital and other functional direction.
Lead the governance lifecycle for key digital forums, including the preparation and smooth running of digital forums and meetings, ensuring high-quality materials, robust preparation and effective secretariate and facilitation support where required. Deputise for the Head of Digital Governance in chairing governance forums where appropriate.
Set the direction for colleague engagement, delivery and continuous improvement for our service offering to the portfolio. Work with the other leaders to ensure the service offering is up to date, fit for purpose and well communicated within and outside of the team.
Ensure a programme of compliance and assurance reviews take place at key milestones to meet internal and external requirements ensuring that activity is resourced adequately.
Devise and run training and information workshops on Digital Governance tools and methodologies; to raise awareness of best practice methodology.
Own DVSA Digital Governance guidance ensuring this aligns with relevant internal and external requirements, and ensuring that all documentation is reviewed and updated as and when required to meet best practice requirements.
Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction and guidance to support the delivery of objectives. Establish a strong direction and a persuasive future vision for digital governance, managing and engaging with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
Encourage professional behaviours as well as performance and identify where development is required as well as regularly recognising when good work has been achieved. Provide a safe environment to escalate concerns from the team to respond to appropriately or escalate to the Head of Digital Governance if required.
Work in collaboration with colleagues across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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