Digital Office Project Manager - CHILG Product Owner

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Overview of Digital Office

We are the Digital Office. Leaders of digital transformation and delivery across Scottish Local Government. Founded in 2016, we support Scottish local authorities with their digital transformation journeys. We translate and align the actions within the National Digital Strategy into collective and scalable initiatives.

Adopting a “Once for Scotland’ approach to digital transformation, our local government Digital Partnership helps local authorities to harness the full potential of technology, driving service delivery, enhancing outcomes, and efficiencies. In effect, doing more with digital.

Our dedicated team works closely with local authorities across Scotland, providing the leadership, guidance, resources, and expertise needed to navigate the complexities of the ever-changing digital landscape. We understand that each council has unique challenges and priorities, that’s why our approach is always tailored to meet specific needs, ensuring our digital delivery is always with a human touch.

The Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, in partnership with COSLA, are developing a team to identify opportunities for design and adoption of common solutions (process, technology, governance) of Community Health Index in Local Government (CHILG).

A key priority foundation element of this work is to enable wider adoption in Social Care of the Community Health Index (CHI) (already in wide use in core NHS systems) as a patient identifier to streamline the patient journey between Health and Social Care providers with dramatically improved outcomes in key services areas such as hospital discharge.

Key Responsibilities

1. This post will focus on bringing together and developing CHILG in the Health & Social Care (HSC) sector alongside an evolving project landscape in the HSC portfolio e.g. Digital Telecare, Digital Front Door.
2. Facilitate and contribute to the design, production and delivery of a range of CHILG products (i.e. guidance documents, templates, common technology solutions and reports) for HSC Providers to support them in transforming their identity journey to integrate CHI.
3. Implement and maintain high quality project management and planning procedures to ensure the CHILG project is effectively controlled and delivered to achieve the expected benefits.
4. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full communication and co-operation with each Project stakeholder to provide the highest level of project management support and deliver expected outcomes.

Please see the job description for further details.

Benefits:

The successful candidate will benefit from a competitive salary, local government pension and 27 days leave per year plus 11 fixed holidays. Whilst this is a remote opportunity, COSLA offers a friendly working environment, based in modern offices at the heart of Edinburgh’s West End.

*Please note that this job opportunity is currently undergoing a single status job evaluation review to ensure our employees receive fair remuneration for the role and therefore, there may be adjustments to the salary for this position during the course of the review.

Home based with some occasional travel throughout Scotland

Duration of Contract: 18 Months

Equal Opportunity Statement:

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

How to apply

Applications should be made through the myjobscotland website by 11.59pm on the 26th October 2025.

It is anticipated interviews will be held week of the 3^rd of November 2025.