Job summary

The role of Chief Information Officer is a Senior Management position in the Department of

Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM). Reporting to the Secretary General, the person

appointed will be a member of DAFM's Management Board and will have overall

responsibility for the strategic development and management of the Department’s ICT and

digital systems and strategy that support new and better ways of improving ICT service

provision to all its stakeholders. Please see the Department’s ICT strategy document on the

publicjobs advertisement page for reference.

Main Duties of the job

The appointee will play a major role in continuing the current high quality of service

and determining future business strategies and will lead a multi-disciplinary team of

approximately 300 employees located in Dublin, Backweston (Celbridge), Portlaoise

and Wexford. The CIO will be responsible for championing digital transformation in

the Department to improve the digital services provided to all its customers and

stakeholders.

As well as the key competencies for Assistant Secretaries, the person appointed will have:

 A successful track record at senior level of leading and delivering significant

technology transformation and of significant achievement and best practice in the

management of large ICT projects;

 A good understanding, supported by relevant qualifications and/or experience of

current ICT developments, of the forces encouraging business change and of the

pivotal role that ICT can play in meeting business objectives in a way that maximises

value for money;

 Agility, flexibility and the ability to effectively lead teams operating under significant

time pressure with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships

both internally and externally and have demonstrable skills in persuading and

influencing with multiple complex stakeholders;

 Excellent leadership, negotiation, communication, management and teamwork skills,

with an ability to express him/herself orally and in writing, clearly, concisely and

persuasively;

 A demonstrated proven track record of providing strong strategic leadership to large

diverse teams, supporting and giving direction to the building of capability, capacity

and organisational culture so that the IMT group delivers to a consistently high

standard of performance, accountability and integrity, assured by robust governance

and oversight controls;

 Familiarity with, or the capacity to acquire quickly an understanding of, the range of

farming and wider national stakeholder interests involved in this environment,

including an ability to operate effectively in EU and international fora;

 A demonstrated ability to lead and govern significant technology programmes,

managing large-scale ICT budgets in complex environments and involving a range of

diverse stakeholder, nationally and at EU level.