Planning and Performance Development Manager

Overview

The Planning and Performance Development Manager sits within the Adults, Health and Commissioning Directorate and plays a central role in supporting effective planning, performance management and service improvement. Working across operational, commissioning and corporate teams, you'll provide insight, assurance and coordination that enables senior leaders to make informed decisions and deliver better outcomes for adults, carers and communities. We are seeking a proactive and influential Planning and Performance Development Manager to work at the heart of the directorate. You'll be coordinating business planning, overseeing the delivery of a complex change portfolio, and managing performance and statutory reporting arrangements. Through robust data, insight and collaboration, you will support senior leaders to understand performance, manage risk and drive continuous improvement across adult social care, health and commissioning services.

What will you be doing?

You will lead the coordination of planning, performance and change activity across Adults, Health and Commissioning, ensuring robust reporting, oversight and continuous improvement. The role involves working across teams and systems to translate complex data into actionable insight, supporting informed decision making and service improvement, with responsibility for coordinating inputs rather than direct line management. This role does not have line management responsibility.

About you

This is an excellent opportunity to influence strategic decision making and improve outcomes for adults and communities. You will be skilled at turning complex data into a clear and compelling narrative, supporting the development of well evidenced, practical improvement plans that drive better outcomes. You will bring strong experience or transferable skills in business planning, performance management, data analysis and service improvement within adult social care, health, local government or a similarly complex organisation. You will be confident working across teams and with partners, able to turn data into clear insight and improvement plans and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. We welcome applications from candidates without direct local authority experience where they can demonstrate relevant skills, analytical capability and a commitment to public service outcomes. You will be committed to equality, safeguarding and the Council's Net Zero ambition.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Benefits

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

Note: The information above relates to the current role and does not constitute a contract. Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of a Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service.