Director of Corporate Services – C2

Job Description

This opportunity is only open to applicants who are currently ‘Priority Movers’. Applications from individuals not currently on the Priority Mover list will be rejected and not considered.

Job Description

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive, your twin objectives will delivering operational excellence across our corporate services suite and leading co-ordination of delivering of our corporate goals across our business. You will provide strategic leadership to the corporate services team (c.70 staff) and Heads of Profession in Finance, People, Procurement, Programme, corporate and Programme Governance and Risk & Assurance functions.

This is an exciting time for DS. We have now delivered the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020, transforming the disclosure and barring landscape in Scotland. We have transformed our digital assets – moving almost entirely from paper based to online service delivery. We have optimised many of our services and seek to now enter a stage of service and organisational evolution and continuous improvement.

You will join the Agency as we progress our final steps to achieving our Target Operating Model by 2028, and trace a leading role in creating and fostering an efficient and effective enabling corporate environment to drive our strategic outcomes, which will be published in June 2026.

You will be a passionate leader with the ability to catalise collaborative change, seizing the the opportunity deliver at strategic, tactical and operational levels, often in parallel when balancing a range of issues, to drive real, tangible results. You will do this by inspiring and supporting a number of teams and functions to deliver both day to day requirements and grow and innovate over time.