The Government is looking to appoint a director of digital, a new role which carries a salary of £141,000 a year, just £1,500 less than Prime Minister David Cameron.
The position was originally proposed in the review carried out by the Government’s digital champion Martha Lane Fox at the end of last year. It is currently being filled on an interim basis by Chris Chant, programme director in the Cabinet Office and former chief information officer at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
In a job description the Cabinet Office said it is looking for an exceptional candidate to fill the “new and exciting” role of executive director of digital to lead the implementation of the Government’s new digital strategy.
“Sitting at the heart of the Government’s radical public service reform agenda this will be a rewarding role with a great deal of public visibility,” it said.
The Cabinet Office is seeking a candidate with a “proven credibility in transformation through the delivery of digital channels and engagement, together with a track record of leading digitally-enabled change at a strategic level, in a large federated organisation with complex delivery chains”.
The successful candidate is likely to head the Government’s channel shift to online-only services, with some sections of the media dubbing it the Twitter Tsar.
