Head of Strategic Delivery WCC619928

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Job Details:

Salary range: £76,554 – £95,418 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 14 February 2025
Interview date: Expected to be held 25 and 26 Feb 2025

About Us:

Strategic Change in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generation.

Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams.

The Role:

As a Portfolio Delivery Lead, you can make your own powerful contribution to our ambitious community improvement initiatives. Reporting to the Director of Strategic Change, this position is all about consistent and robust deliverables. You’ll be the go-to individual for the strategy, partnerships, oversight and management of all corporate activities within a portfolio of corporate priority projects. Essentially, the key player in budget responsibility and distribution, developing and upskilling your team and tactfully dealing with a range of elements with high political interest.

You will therefore be expected to act in a programme management capacity to directly manage the delivery of a corporate priority programme or portfolio of work, including but not limited to:

1. Tackling Inequality
2. Achieving Net Zero/Climate goals
3. Providing safe, high-quality homes
4. Improving neighbourhoods and supporting communities to thrive

Operating at the very heart of the department, you’ll be joining the Corporate Programme Management Office, a team consisting of programme managers, delivery leads, project support roles, benefit managers, and business intelligence developers. As a council, we believe people deserve to be born into a safe and supporting environment, which is where you come in. Meticulously costing up each set of deliverables, developing actionable roadmaps and accurately resourcing and delegating projects as they come across your desk.

With one eye permanently on savings, you’ll be expected to create career paths for your team, manage programme budgets as required and actively participate in the leadership team’s initiatives for our new and complex projects and services.

About You:

With relevant and demonstrable experience, confidence and success when implementing new and exciting programmes, you’ll be comfortable managing a delivery team of project managers and have firm knowledge of how to implement organisational change without friction.
Your exceptional capability to nurture relationships with council officers, Members, community organisations and other external partners across every facet of your role will allow you to thrive as part of this department as well as naturally become an open and active member of the Corporate Programme Management Office’s senior management team.

Committed, sensitive and open, you’ll be an approachable role-model to your peers. Someone with gumption and bravado. We’re looking for a leader who’s friendly but firm, honest but encouraging and passionate enough to take ownership of the great work their team does while simultaneously driving it forward to the next level.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 250,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.#J-18808-Ljbffr