Improvement and Change Delivery Lead

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Grade 6 - between £50,788 - £62,801 Consultation grade, subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week.

The role is hybrid however the post holder would be required to work from Birmingham City Council buildings as business needs dictate.

About Us

Do you want to make a real difference for children, young people, and families in Birmingham? Do you have a passion for collaborative strength based, relationship centred decision making and service design and provision?Birmingham City Council,

Improvement Change and Delivery Lead

Permanent

Grade 6 - between £50,788 - £62,801 Consultation grade, subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week.

The role is hybrid however the post holder would be required to work from Birmingham City Council buildings as business needs dictate.

About Us

Do you want to make a real difference for children, young people, and families in Birmingham? Do you have a passion for collaborative strength based, relationship centred decision making and service design and provision?

Outside of London, Birmingham is the UK’s most diverse city and has the largest number of young people in its city than any of its European counterparts. Birmingham is on a journey of significant change, ready to reset, reshape and restart. To do this well we recognise that we need to strengthen our permanent arrangements across fundamental functions by increasing internal expertise and capacity.

Birmingham’s Children and Families Directorate are recruiting a series of posts to expand the Strategy, Governance and Planning service. This is truly an exciting opportunity to showcase your skills, knowledge, and experience to facilitate meaningful change for the children, young people, and families of Birmingham.

Our team ethos is centred on appreciation for individuality and individual contribution and expertise and the value of this to the team’s collective success and ability to sustain positive outcomes. We strive to ensure that our working environment is inclusive, supportive, and empowering.

We are looking for a dynamic, bold and ambitious Improvement Change and Delivery Lead to join our new and expanding team. We are working across a large, diverse city, across multiple services through a challenging, yet exciting time of transformation and improvement. If you are looking for your next challenge and have the drive to secure the very best opportunities for children and young people, join our vibrant and dedicated team.

About The Role

As a key member of the Strategy, Governance and Planning team, you will lead and coordinate the activity and outputs of a small team of Project Managers and Project Officers to facilitate and support transformation and continuous improvement programmes across the Children and Families Directorate. With your team you will manage an established pipeline of projects, developed by the Head of Strategic Governance, Planning and Improvement, to deliver critical, programmes to help embed systematic models of service design and delivery able to sustain better outcomes for children and families. You will bring technical expertise to the team and inspire confident implementation of change management and data and business analysis to project cycles, end to end. We are looking for a confident strategic project management lead, able to deliver effective project and programme management in a technical systematic fashion.

About You

An experienced and credible project and change lead, educated to graduate degree level with a proven track record of successfully managing and implementing change and continuous improvement programmes using programme, project and change management methodology and associated tools and techniques across concurrent workstreams.

You will have the ability to lead people and set clear objectives. You will have significant experience of building effective working relationships with stakeholders and negotiating and influencing at all levels.

Putting children, young people and families across Birmingham first at all times is at the heart of everything you do, you will manage resources, operate within financial priorities to deliver value for money for the Council and our strategic partners while ensuring the best possible services and outcomes for children, young people and families.

You will be an experienced, driven, creative and a passionate advocate for children and young people. You will work to instil a nurturing empathetic culture that values high-performance, and inclusivity, shaping and developing the skills of your team so that each and every person can get the most from their role, feeling encouraged to thrive.

In return, we will match your commitment to us with opportunities to grow and develop your knowledge and experience as well as other rewarding career progression routes. We also offer competitive salaries and annual leave, membership of the local government pension scheme, and access to a variety of employee assistance programmes, to support the well-being of our workforce.

For any informal enquires please contact:cfgovernanceandplanning@birmingham.gov.uk

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Personal Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Personal Statement should outline how you meet the essential criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

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.

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 welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

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.

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