Head of Assurance and Delivery Partnerships
CityFibre provides wholesale connectivity to multiple business and consumer service providers, local authorities and mobile operators.
Job Description
As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as Head of Assurance & Delivery Partnerships
As an experienced head of, you will assure the full delivery of the rural footprint to ensure both internal and external targets can be delivered in the timeliest and cost-efficient way. You will lead and manage wayleave acquisition across the rural footprint to ensure seamless build progress. You will have experience in development & implementation of Land Access Strategy, fostering strategic partnerships while driving compliance with industry standards.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
* Lead and manage wayleave acquisition across the rural footprint to ensure seamless build progress, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
* Develop and manage the Land Access Strategy, focusing on efficient and compliant processes.
* Engage in industry working groups to represent and advance City Fibre’s strategic interests. Collaborate with DNOs and other partners to optimize Access to Infrastructure (ATI) opportunities.
* Lead the improvement of operational assurance processes and tools to ensure broken orders within the BDUK footprint are tracked and minimized. This must focus on both proactive and reactive action plans.
What you’ll bring to the role
As an experienced Head of Assurance, you’ll also have:
* Significant experience managing external Wayleaves partners, developing, scope, operating principles and the contract framework and managing in-life.
* Experience in developing and implementing policy and SOPs, managing resources, including internal teams and outsourced partners, along with the ability to create and refine templates for wayleave agreements, ensuring they meet current legislation.
* Detailed understanding of statutory and legal frameworks under which City Fibre can build its install and maintain its infrastructure such as the Electronic Communications Code 'The Code' and the Digital Economy Act.
* Proven leader able to develop and motivate a team of internal and external wayleave professionals.
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organization of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family-friendly and menopause policies.
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