Financial management for digital, data and technology

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• own, manage and optimise budgets across digital, data and technology
• secure appropriate investment to deliver organisational strategy and priorities
• negotiate investments in shared technologies across the organisation and across government
• prioritising competing demands for investment in people, infrastructure and innovation across digital, data and technology to maximise value
• identifying risk to critical services and influencing stakeholders to increase investment to ensure they are maintained
• balancing short-term tactical gains with longer-term strategies to ensure value now and in the future

2. Working

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• own, manage and optimise budgets across digital, data and technology
• secure appropriate investment to deliver organisational strategy and priorities
• negotiate investments in shared technologies across the organisation and across government
• prioritising competing demands for investment in people, infrastructure and innovation across digital, data and technology to maximise value
• identifying risk to critical services and influencing stakeholders to increase investment to ensure they are maintained
• balancing short-term tactical gains with longer-term strategies to ensure value now and in the future

3. Practitioner

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• own, manage and optimise budgets across digital, data and technology
• secure appropriate investment to deliver organisational strategy and priorities
• negotiate investments in shared technologies across the organisation and across government
• prioritising competing demands for investment in people, infrastructure and innovation across digital, data and technology to maximise value
• identifying risk to critical services and influencing stakeholders to increase investment to ensure they are maintained
• balancing short-term tactical gains with longer-term strategies to ensure value now and in the future

4. Expert

*Senior leadership skill: the UK GDaD PCF defines it with one statement, not by level.* You can: Examples of leadership using this skill:

• own, manage and optimise budgets across digital, data and technology
• secure appropriate investment to deliver organisational strategy and priorities
• negotiate investments in shared technologies across the organisation and across government
• prioritising competing demands for investment in people, infrastructure and innovation across digital, data and technology to maximise value
• identifying risk to critical services and influencing stakeholders to increase investment to ensure they are maintained
• balancing short-term tactical gains with longer-term strategies to ensure value now and in the future

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

• manage budgets (close match)
• financial management (broad match)

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