Description Principal Performance Officer Permanent Grade 5 - £41,511 - £49,764 Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review Working 36.5 hours per week The Highways and Infrastructure service provides and manages a range of services that are focused on: Maintaining and managing the city’s highway infrastructure to a safe and serviceable condition, to meet the Council’s statutory duties; and Managing activity on the highway network such as parking, bus lane enforcement and traffic regulation This includes services to invest in, operate and maintain assets including roads, pavements, street lighting, structures, bridges, tunnels, traffic signals and trees on the public highway. These are currently delivered through the Council’s PFI contract, which is scheduled to run until June 2035. We are looking for a Principal Performance Officer to work within our PFI Contract Management team. You will be providing performance and management information on how our highway maintenance and management services provider is doing to our Performance Manager. You will work with them using your analysis as the basis for recommending the management actions that they should take in line with our contract. An eye for detail and experience in analysing data, preparing reports and presenting your findings is therefore essential in this role. Your talents in these areas will be put to great use ensuring our service provider is delivering on their obligations. You will work with other teams within Highways and Infrastructure and directly with our service provider across all channels in this role, so you’ll need good written and verbal communication skills and feel confident and comfortable dealing with a wide variety of people at all levels on a diverse range of highway related issues. We are looking for a candidate with good practical experience of working in a performance environment. Previous highways experience isn't essential, but the ability to build relationships and rapport are essential. You will need to be a dynamic individual who is able to hit the ground running, be flexible, adaptable and be comfortable working on your own initiative and as part of a close-knit team. If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you. Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached. Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application. We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such, applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered. For any informal enquires please contact: Paige Halford at paige.halfordbirmingham.gov.uk We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered. Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Job Description and Person Specification We strive to advertise all roles for a minimum of two weeks. However, due to high application volumes vacancies may close earlier than the stated deadline. We encourage you to submit your application without delay to ensure consideration.