Digital Transformation Manager

Organisation: Derby Homes

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid Working

TO APPLY FOR THIS VACANCY, YOU MUST DO SO THROUGH THE DERBY HOMES WEBSITE, BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT USING THE “APPLY ONLINE” LINK.

We're looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Digital Transformation Manager to help shape the future of services at Derby Homes.

This is a key role responsible for shaping and delivering our digital transformation programme, ensuring technology, data and business processes support our ambition to deliver excellent services for our customers and communities.

Working closely with senior leaders, service managers and external partners, you'll drive a portfolio of improvement initiatives, helping us modernise systems, strengthen data quality and deliver more efficient and effective ways of working. Working across the organisation, you'll help strengthen assurance, support compliance with the requirements of the Regulator of Social Housing and ensure colleagues have the information they need to make effective decisions.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape strategic change while delivering practical improvements that make a real difference to customers and colleagues. Due to the collaborative nature of the role and the need to work closely with colleagues across the organisation, this post is predominantly office-based.

You'll have experience of delivering digital, business or service improvement projects and a passion for making things better. You'll be an excellent communicator who can build strong relationships, influence stakeholders and deliver results.

Derby Homes has a national reputation for its excellent services which we know are down to our valued workforce. In return for their hard work we strive to be an employer of choice. We have a range of excellent terms and conditions, including flexible working, work life balance, local government pension scheme, employee health initiatives and green travel options.

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Person specification

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. We are also proud to have Derbyshire LGBT+ Rainbow Partnership Accreditation and encourage applications from candidates of all genders.

We are a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 14th December 2026 at midnight. Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted.

If you have been selected for interview you will hear from us prior to the interview date.