THE GOVERNMENT IT PROFESSION

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THE GOVERNMENT IT PROFESSION Samantha Ruddock
Implementation Manager
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Transformational Government
Three key transformations

• Design services around citizens and businesses
• Move to shared services culture
• Professionalism in planning, delivery,
  management, skills and governance

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Aim

• Recognise a government-wide IT Profession up to
  and including board level and provide IT
  Professionals with the opportunity to reach the
  highest levels of the Public Service

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Balancing core competencies and technical skills
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An inclusive approach to professionalism
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We know we have good, long-term career prospects
and know where to find the best job
opportunities
Our TiB Fast Stream is highly regarded by
graduates and the wider public sector
We know how and where to get the right training,
mentoring and development to succeed
We know who and where our colleagues are, which
helps us to share best practice and experience
We have a diverse, active community which helps
us to know and understand each other
Our non-IT colleagues have IT awareness and the
appropriate level of skill
We consistently deliver successful projects
KNOWING OUR PEOPLE
ATTRACTING THE BEST PEOPLE AND HELPING THEM
SUCCEED
We consistently identify the right projects
POSITIVE PERCEPTION THROUGH POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
Our policy and operational delivery peers
respect us and our work
IT PROFESSIONALS
We regularly hear praise for our work from the
national media
We have a powerful, clear brand which is
recognised by all, including the wider world
DOING PROJECTS RIGHT AND DOING THE RIGHT PROJECTS
We feel listened to and that the communication
we receive is useful and relevant to us
We know how to manage our investments and
resources, and consistently do
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
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Key components of the approach

• Engagement with Professional Bodies
• A Professional Competency Framework
• A Government IT Academy
• Communication
• Self-selection and registration/ Membership
• Roll out of the IT Profession
• Networking and mentoring

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Engagement with Professional Bodies

• Linked in with CIO Connect
• Strong support from the supplier community
• Private sector collaboration

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Competency Framework
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Government IT Skills Framework based on SFIA v3
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Where can I find out more?...

• The Government IT Profession competency skills
  framework charts and skill descriptions
• www.cio.gov.uk/ITProfession

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The Government IT Academy

• A Government IT Academy to develop professional
  skills and capabilities which distinguish them as
  IT Professionals. The Government IT Academy is
  not necessarily about the bricks and mortar of
  a building and may remain virtual. It is about
  sharing common experiences with peers and
  creating a culture and identity.

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IT Academy Training Provision summary
CIO Leadership Development Programme
CIO/HoP
Core
Delivery Thru Suppliers
IT Enabled Policy Delivery
Managing Business Change
Reliable Project Delivery
Elective modules by technical specialism
Competency
Senior Manager
Senior Managers Core Programme
Grade7 Manager
Core
and / or
New Executive (management) Workshop
New Executive (technical) Workshop
Elective modules by Competency or for project
Senior Lead Practitioners
Change Management
IT Landscape
Technology specific
PPM principles
Core, timed for Fast Stream
Business of Govt/Culture
Svc/Solution Delivery
(New) Practitioner
Foundation Programme
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Communications approach

• Key messages
• Media relations
• Speaking programme
• Exhibitions and events /regional roadshow
  programme
• CIOC Website
• Targeted email alerts e-Bulletin
• Senior (Directors) visits
• exchange of news with SOCITM, other outlets
• customer satisfaction survey

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Self selection and registration

• Launch of our website (www.cio.gov.uk/itprofession
  ) in July 2005
• Register Your Interest www.cio.gov.uk/itprofession
  

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Register your interest
www.cio.gov.uk/itprofession
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Membership

• Greater focus on membership
• Reaching the professional community
• Knowing where they are
• Whats in it for the individual and organisation?

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The offerings

• The USP - the fastest growing profession in the
  public sector with free membership and an agenda
  established, fully supported by and driven by the
  Government CIO and his CIO Council.
• Membership of a profession spanning the entire
  public sector
• Networking with hundreds of organisations across
  the public sector to embed the principles of
  professionalism, create active professional
  communities and facilitate the sharing of good
  practice
• Identification of strengths and areas for
  development against a framework which is the
  Industry standard (and relates closely to private
  sector standard too).
• A bigger focus on skills and development and
  supporting approaches to learning and knowledge
  share which dont have to be expensive

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offerings contd

• Career path development
• Clarifying what career means for IT professionals
  helping people to look much more at their
  broad competency areas, and the skill progression
  outlined by the framework.
• Helping people to look at possibilities across
  the whole of the public and private sector. See
  the possibilities for gaining wider experience of
  different organisations and different challenges.
  
• Gradual commonality across organisations and
  sectors facilitating career movement
• Development of a vacancies section on the CIO
  Council website to advertise jobs within each
  competency area. Awareness raising with
  recruitment teams in hundreds of organisations
  and links with major recruitment sites.

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offerings contd

• Free membership provides access to the Government
  IT Profession Community Space which provides
• A means of networking and engaging in
  discussions with IT professionals in all parts of
  the public sector
• A knowledge base to help avoid re-inventing the
  wheel and share successes, including resources to
  support professional development  such as the
  Government IT Skills Framework
• Access to large numbers of IT job vacancies via
  the RSS aggregator on our Feeds page.
• Updates on IT Academy events, including the
  opportunity to attend free IT Academy seminars
• An e-Bulletin every two months updating you on
  some of the latest developments within the
  Government IT Profession progress being made by
  organisations and relevant topics of interest
• The route to actively inform the development of
  the Government IT Profession and its
  prioritisation of issues

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Roll out of the IT Profession

• Organisational engagement
• Organisational ownership

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The patch
Defence, Justice, Fire Police
Education, Transport Environment
Central Government Departments their Agencies
Health, Local Government Regional bodies
Devolved Administrations
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• Organisational Engagement
• Currently engaging with approx 600 organisations
• Increasing reach to the widest span of the public
  sector approx 1,400 organisations by end of
  2007
• Engagement via CIOs, Heads of ICT, Implementation
  Leads, Competency Leads, HR Leads

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• Increased focus on governance
• 11 senior strategic sector steering groups
• are emerging across the wider public sector.
• They, along with the IT Profession Council, will
  provide the strategic leadership
• for the future development of your profession

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Sector Steering Groups

• Local Government
• Health
• Education
• Environment
• Transport
• Central Depts
• Defence
• Justice
• Fire
• Police
• Devolved Administrations

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Local Government Steering Group

• Membership
• Jos Creese, (Chair) CIO Hampshire CC
• Nicola Ratcliffe, Kennet District
• Nadira Hussain, Tower Hamlets
• Steve Sankey, Nottinghamshire County Council
• Dylan Roberts, Leeds Met
• Steve Williams, Sunderland Met
• Mick Phythion, Ryedale District
• Helen Finnimore, Teesdale District
• Nick Roberts, Surrey Council
• Henri Reinbolt, Greenwich LB
• Tonino Ciuffini, Warwickshire CC
• Tony Riding, SOCITM
• Adrian Hancock, SOCITM

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Local Government Steering Group

• Role
• Created to enable Local Government
  representatives to provide the strategic
  leadership for their organisations in defining
  the optimum methodology for the implementation of
  the Government IT Profession and the embedding of
  professionalism.

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The Local Government strategy

• A partnership project between the IDeA, Socitm
  and Cabinet Office, facilitated by the Government
  IT Profession local Government Sector Steering
  Group
• The involvement of IDeA will bring in relevant
  expertise in understanding your sector and
  implementing large national programmes within it.
  Socitm will provide its expertise and networks
  within the sector as well as ensuring the
  custodianship of the Aspire product, including
  its marketing, support and training services.

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The approach

• demonstrate how the embedding of IT
  Professionalism can support Service
  Transformation.
• Phased implementation
• Deliver a business case setting out the benefits
  of implementing the SFIA framework in the context
  of local government based on a combination of
  case studies key stakeholder consultation on
  what the business drivers and benefits are for
  embedding IT professionalism
• Future phases will produce a series of
  performance measures for IT improvement to use
  for future benchmarking and a maturity model for
  authorities to be able to map themselves against
  in terms of implementing, embedding and
  demonstrating increased ICT professionalism.
• Linked in with the CHAMPS agenda on Service
  Transformation

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Building your communities of interest
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National Competency Leads
CIO (Board level)
Enterprise Strategy and Architecture
Delivery Management
Martin Bellamy DWP
Jon Wrennall, HMRC
Business Change Management
Architecture, Information and Innovation
Procurement and Management Support
Solutions Delivery and Implementation
Service Delivery
Paul Day Southwark Council
Darren Scates DCA
Carol Piper HMRC
Chris Chant Defra
Alicia ONeill DCA
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Organisation Competency Leads Terms of
Reference

• Working as part of the local Government IT
  Profession management team
• Identifying members of each competency group
• Setting the direction for their competency group
• Working with the National Competency Leads to
  create a sense of community across the public
  sector
• Identifying activities (on-going or new) that
  will add value to the members of the competency
  group
• Engaging members of the competency group in
  planning, managing and taking part in
  professionalism activities locally and nationally

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Networking Mentoring

• Networking and mentoring across competency
  groups, both within organisations and across
  organisations to encourage the sharing of best
  practice and experience. Individuals will, over
  time, be able to have a mentor in their
  competency group providing them with a view on
  the training, job experience and qualifications
  they need to reach their potential.
• This will grow out of the establishment of
  Competency Leads, one for each competency area.
  They will act as champions for activity in their
  organisation to support that competency.
• Competency Leads conference in May played an
  important part in forming the future shape of the
  profession.

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Your Community Space

• to facilitate networking, discussion and
• the sharing of information and best practice in
  relation to
• all aspects of IT professionalism across the
  public sector.
• This space is only available to
• full members of the Government IT Profession
• whose names have been submitted to the IT
  Profession team

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Your Community Space
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How can you help

• Become a member
• Register your IT Professionals as members and
  encourage them to use the community space and be
  involved
• Be a point of contact for updates
• Plug into the Competency Leads network
• Be involved in the partnership project
• Use SFIA for recruitment and performance
  management
• Tell us who your HR leads are

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Register your interest
www.cio.gov.uk/itprofession
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Contact us

• itprofession_at_cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
• Samantha.Ruddock_at_cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk