Digital Skills Officer Job Role

Digital Skills Officer

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What Does a Digital Skills Officer Do?

A Digital Skills Officer is responsible for helping develop an enterprise strategy to transition, train, and retain technical employees. Working closely with the office of the CIO or CTO, the Digital Skills Officer works to align ongoing training efforts with technical and business roadmaps. Digital Skills Officers are responsible for coordinating the overall design, management, and outcome-based measurement of training programs.

Key Traits of a Digital Skills Officer

Strategic

A strong Digital Skills Officer is able to identify key outcome-based goals with senior leadership and programmatic ways to achieve them.

Collaborative

Digital Skills Officers must liaise with department heads and subject matter experts to align technical training efforts with specific technologies and implementations.

Overachieving

The ideal Digital Skills Officer does not settle for status quo and is resourceful in delivering long-term, impactful training solutions for the organization.

Business and Tech Savvy

Since the role serves to align technical training programs to business roadmap, a background in both business and technology is ideal.

Day-to-Day Expectations and Responsibilities

Develop organization-wide learning strategies based on current-and future-state technology needs

Work collaboratively with all departments and respective subject matter experts to deliver specific, contextualized training programs by job role.

Define and track key metrics that communicate both effort and outcome of training programs for senior leadership.

Establish digital skills assessment frameworks that accurately measure skills and capabilities as they relate to business impact

Employ creative tactics to attract new talent and establish a culture of continuous improvement.

Digital Skills Officer Target Skill Set

Technical Skill Set:

Working knowledge of cloud platforms, storage, compute, and networking
Familiarity with leading learning development platforms and their pros / cons
Strong project and program management skills

Non-Technical Skill Set:

Excellent communication skills
Ability to influence others across and at all levels of the organization
Highly organized and thorough

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Starter Training Plan for Digital Skills Officers

The following Cloud Academy starter Training Plans prepare professionals to become Digital Skills Officers

Digital Skills Officer

2 weeks

Benefits of Cloud Technology for Business: Getting Started With Migration

4 1

This Learning Path has been designed to help businesses and organizations understand the benefits of cloud technology to business, if a strategic decision to move to the cloud is the right choice and to provide the logical steps and points of consideration when doing so up to the point and including planning for a cloud migration strategy plan.

Introduction to Public Cloud Platforms

4 1

This Learning Path provides you with an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to analyze their strengths and weaknesses.

Cloud Practitioner Certification Preparation for AWS

10 4 1

Designed specifically for students looking to gain an understanding of the concepts of cloud computing without the technical detail, the Cloud Practitioner Certification Preparation for AWS Learning Path is an ideal starting point for non technical people looking to understand Cloud Computing from a business perspective.

Training Plans ensure accountability across your teams when it comes to Digital Skills Officer training.

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Industry Certification(s) for Digital Skills Officers

The following industry certifications are popular among Digital Skills Officers:

Microsoft AZ-900 Exam: Azure Fundamentals

The exam is intended for candidates with non-technical backgrounds, such as those involved in selling or purchasing cloud based solutions and services or who have some involvement with cloud based solutions and services, as well as those with a technical background who have a need to validate their foundational level knowledge around cloud services. (Source: Microsoft)

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We are fully committed to the training of our employees and we’re developing scalable, best-in-class programs to ensure that our organization is ready for the future. We are achieving this by establishing the right mix in our digital skills portfolio and continuously measuring learning progress across teams. This isn’t a one-time effort. We are redefining training into enablement that is ongoing, specific, and actionable across the business.

- Stacey Young Rivers

Director of Skills Analysis & Development at Turner

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