Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager

Senior Digital Governance and Assurance Manager

Location:

Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham(Garretts Green) or Uxbridge.
Salary: £45,900 per annum
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 25th October 2026
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.
Job description
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…