Job Description
Our client, Devon County Council, is looking for a Assistant Director specialising in Performance and Policy to join their team.
The job-holder will be a senior professional within the directorate, providing strategic and operational leadership to drive the performance and ambition of the Council. The role is accountable for the development and implementation of a corporate performance framework, aligning service delivery and improvement with financial performance and risk management. The role leads the development of policy, engaging with stakeholders and partnerships recognising system-wide engagement is significant to delivering the council’s priorities, improvement and performance. A clear understanding and recognition of the national and local context within which the Council operates is a significant part of the role
The job-holder will be responsible for the strategic management of:
1. Performance Services – Corporate Performance Framework, Setting and measuring Directorate and Service impacts and outcomes, supporting Service Improvement programmes and statutory inspections, benchmarking and reporting.
2. Data, Analysis, Intelligence and Management Information Services and Systems – supporting Council-wide service delivery, commissioning of services, evidence for decision-making; Market Intelligence and Technical Data and Information Systems
3. Policy &ndash...