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Job Title

Chief Information Officer (Assistant Secretary) In The Central Statistics Office

Employer

Central Statistics Office

Location

Cork

Description

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) acts as Ireland's national statistical office and its mandate is the collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State. The CSO is also responsible for coordinating the official statistics of other public authorities and for developing the statistical potential of administrative records. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a senior management position, at Assistant Secretary level, reporting to the Director General of the CSO. The CIO is responsible for providing the corporate leadership, vision, and strategic direction in the usage of information technology, statistical methodology and quality services to support the CSO to deliver on its corporate objectives. In addition to this planning role, the CIO is also responsible for the management of ICT, methodological and quality services ensuring the effective day-to-day provision of these services, and for the delivery of relevant CSO initiatives in respect of the CSO’s strategic transformation programme. The successful candidate will have: • Significant recent management experience at an appropriate senior level, including leading and managing technical/multidisciplinary teams in a large or complex organisation; • A proven record of delivering innovation using leading edge, large scale ICT solutions to challenging deadlines in a complex environment. A thorough understanding of and proven ability to manage the wide range of issues in a complex public service body associated with this type of role including responsiveness to business needs; • The ability to quickly respond to changing CSO priorities and deliver projects using agile governance methodologies; • Experience and proven ability to analyse and improve existing or planned business processes using technical solutions; • A deep understanding of information technology, statistical quality, methodology and software development issues and technology solution and trends with a strong commitment to further developing this understanding. For a confidential discussion please contact CiarĂ¡n Oman at ciaran.oman@publicjobs.ie. This is a Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC) position.

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1418 days ago

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