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Interim Policy and Performance Assistant Director
Devon 5265104
Hybrid working – 50% in the office
Please state expected pay rate on your CV
Key Requirements:
Substantial leadership experience of performance, data and intelligence systems, strategy, policy development, and management of operational services at a senior level, ability to work across a complex, multi-disciplinary and sometime ambiguous landscape.
Strong strategic capability ad experience across large, diverse and complex organisations, in a challenging and changing business environment.
Substantial and successful experience of managing large projects, programmes and budgets.
Experience of managing and developing multi-disciplinary teams. Able to lead, motivate, inspire and organise mixed teams of technical and business professionals.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
Ability to analyse complex data and provide actionable insights.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the Performance Service and be accountable for the development and operation of the Council’s corporate performance framework, aligning service delivery and improvement with financial performance and risk management, establishing effective reporting and providing senior leaders and members with a strategic line of sight of key services and improvement priorities.
Provide strategic operational oversight to deliver high-performing data and intelligence projects, systems, processes and reporting tools to support statutory and quality inspections across the Council’s services, and develop evidence- informed needs assessments and data and intelligence strategies, to underpin Directorate key decisions including commissioning of high-quality services.
Ensure compliance with GDPR, Data Sharing Agreements, Information Asset Registers, Risk Assessments, Data Quality Policies and lead the development of technical data and intelligence approaches ensuring best use of systems and reporting tools are applied organisationally including supporting statutory reporting and bench marking.
Responsible for the development of the Council’s Strategic Plan, and an annual corporate plan, leading engagement with Directorates to establish organisational improvement priorities and lead the production of an annual report, working with the Senior Leadership Team and partners to report progress in a timely manner.
Lead the Council’s response to national policy development and consultations, working across local partnerships to create collaborative approaches to influencing national policy to support the Council’s strategic priorities, including engaging with MPs, public sector system leaders and senior leadership team.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Devon 5265104
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