Assistant Director - Strategy, Insight and Performance

JOB ROLE

• Responsible for the strategic management of the service area, this role will lead the council's innovation and community involvement work.

• Providing expert strategy development and community involvement, the role will work with communities to design resident-led programmes and interventions to deliver the 2030 strategy, and internal and external transformation priorities, corporate and service strategies, policies and operational plans that secure the achievement of service, council objectives and value for money outcomes.

• Working closely with the Assistant Chief Executive - Strategy and Communities, the role will design behaviour change interventions to support community change and realign community relationships to deliver the 2030 strategy and council transformation priorities.
  
• The role will take a council-wide lead on insight and intelligence, ensuring that the council has a strong evidence base with which to make decisions and to measure impact.

• The role leads on partnerships, particularly relationships with the voluntary and community sector.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Lead and manage the strategic and operational activities of Strategy, Insight and Performance teams to deliver real innovation utilising high quality insight, strategy expertise, and service design and community involvement in all the Council does.

1. Lead the use of innovation, strategy, insight, community involvement and design across a wide range of council change programmes and corporate wide critical projects.

1. Lead the strategic framework to support the council's engagement with key partner organisations within the Council, including local public services and anchor institutions and especially with the voluntary and community sector.

1. Provide strategic leadership on the development and implementation of modern community engagement mechanisms and techniques which provide a diversity of ways to empower residents to take part in discussions and decisions which affect them, and find their own mechanisms for engagement.

1. Manage the pipeline of innovation, strategy, design and community involvement work, ensuring that resources are well-managed and used effectively and that all work is aligned to council and borough wide priorities.

1. To lead on expert measures which ensure the council can prove its impact.

1. Proactively ensure that the work of the service is well communicated both internally and externally at both a senior and operational level.

1. Develop a service plan to meet council and borough wide priorities, ensure the development and delivery of continuous improvements in all aspects of the service and ensure compliance with all internal and external standards.

1. Ensure the successful implementation of health and safety legislation, policies and practices, risk management and take responsibility for the business continuity of service delivery.

1. Manage the budget of the strategy, design and communities service and take the lead responsibility for financial management of the team, planning budgets, challenging spend and creating efficiencies.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.