Senior Digital Strategy Officer

Working Hours: 35 Hours Per Week

Contract Type: Full-Time, Temporary (12 Months)

Closing Date: 31 August 2026

Closing time: 11.59pm

Interview Method: Face to Face

Legal Right to Work: In accordance with Home Office guidance, successful candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application. However, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action

This role is subject to- 2 References - where possible we require 3 years' history

Manchester City Council is recruiting a Senior Digital Strategy Officer – Digital Infrastructure Lead to help drive forward Manchester’s digital infrastructure and connectivity ambitions.

This role will lead and coordinate key activity across the city’s Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Action Plan, helping Manchester take a more strategic, consistent and proactive approach to digital infrastructure. This includes fixed and fibre connectivity, mobile infrastructure, operator engagement, digital infrastructure governance, and the integration of connectivity considerations into housing, planning, highways, regeneration and development activity.

High-quality digital infrastructure is essential to Manchester’s future. It supports economic growth, regeneration, digital inclusion, housing, public services, business investment and the city’s wider ambitions to be inclusive, sustainable and resilient. This role will help ensure Manchester has the foundations in place to support residents, communities, businesses and public services now and in the future.

You will act as a key coordination point for digital infrastructure activity, working across Council services and with external partners to improve visibility, strengthen governance, support operator engagement and help move activity from reactive, case‑case responses to a more strategic, portfolio‑led approach.

This is not a purely technical telecoms role. It is a strategic delivery, coordination and partnership role for someone who understands how digital infrastructure connects to place, growth, inclusion, regeneration and public value.

• Coordinate delivery of Manchester’s Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity Action Plan.
• Support the development of a clear Digital Infrastructure Coordination Function within the Digital Strategy Team.
• Help establish a more consistent “single front door” for infrastructure operators and providers.
• Strengthen coordination across Housing, Planning, Highways, Estates, Legal, Regeneration, Records and other relevant Council services.
• Support improved governance, decision‑making, escalation routes and visibility of digital infrastructure activity.
• Help develop and maintain a clearer picture of digital infrastructure opportunities, risks, constraints and dependencies across the city.
• Support proactive infrastructure management, particularly where connectivity links to regeneration, redevelopment, housing, mobile capacity, fibre deployment and future place‑based growth.
• Work with operators, industry partners and internal services to improve the quality, consistency and transparency of infrastructure engagement.
• Champion ethical, inclusive and future‑focused approaches to digital infrastructure deployment.

• Has experience leading or coordinating complex projects involving digital infrastructure, connectivity, technology, planning, regeneration, housing, transport, highways, assets or place‑based delivery.
• Can work confidently across different services, partners and professional disciplines to bring people together around shared outcomes.
• Understands how fibre, mobile, wireless and other forms of digital infrastructure support inclusive growth, public services, digital inclusion and future city development.
• Can translate complex…