Corporate Performance Lead - Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom - Brighton & Hove City Council

Brighton & Hove City Council
Brighton & Hove City Council
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Corporate Performance Lead :
Posted on 16 March 2023 Apply

  • Directorate

BHCC:
Governance, People & Resources

  • Salary £ £4654
  • Contract Permanent

Location:

Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove


Job Summary:


  • Job reference orbis/TP/140324/31607
  • Positions available 1
  • Working hours 37
  • Closing date 13 April 2023
  • Job category
  • Management
  • Organisation
  • Brighton & Hove City Council
    Job introduction:Are you passionate about driving performance improvement to ensure value for money in delivering our services to the city?
Are you able to understand and express complex information in a meaningful way to a wide variety of audiences?

Are you effectively able to engage with stakeholders across the organisation and provide constructive challenge as needed?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead Brighton and Hove City Council's Corporate Performance Team.

This position is permanent and full-time, although a job share and other various forms of flexible working will be considered.


As the Corporate Performance Lead, you will help drive the council's performance management framework and statutory requirements for continuous improvement.


You will work closely with people at all levels across the council, from senior managers to front line service delivery, to take a systemic approach to embedding a performance culture and ensuring strong corporate governance.


About the role:

This is a highly strategic role reporting to the Assistant Director for our Customer, Modernisation and Performance Insight service.


This role is an opportunity for you to have a real impact by using your expertise and credibility to influence corporate performance, processes and resourcing within the council.

Alongside management and development of the team, you will operate as a conduit across all council directorates, providing support to and challenging Executive Directors and Heads of Service to ensure timely and robust performance management, in line with agreed corporate practice.


You will promote good governance and best practice and be relentless in the pursuit of performance improvement, working closely with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that a true understanding of the council's performance can be reported to elected councillors, the public, senior officers and staff.


You will be responsible for leading, managing and developing a small team of Performance Analysts and will be accountable for delivery of the team's work in a timely and efficient way.

The team are currently working in a hybrid way. Applicants may work flexibly but will be expected to attend the office where service demands require it. Should working from home not be possible, office accommodation is available.


This role is politically restricted. For further information on what this means for employees in post, please click on the document attachment below.

About you

You will have:

  • Substantial experience of developing and delivering a performance management framework
  • Experience of developing relationships and communicating sometimes complex issues effectively and proactively, with various internal and external stakeholders including all levels of management
  • The ability to manage personal competing and conflicting deadlines as well as for the team for which you are accountable
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and the ability to produce clear reports and to proactively report the appropriate level of detail to relevant stakeholders
  • Commitment to making services fair and inclusive for all our customers via effective performance management

What you can expect


Brighton & Hove City Council serves a vibrant city by the sea - a place that has ambitions to be a fairer city with a more sustainable future.

We have made a pledge to become an anti-racist city, these ambitions, along with our Covid recovery plans will shape the work of our teams over the next few years.


You will be working with friendly, talented, hard-working colleagues who have experienced rapid change over the past few years in the ways we deliver our services.

One of our key functions now will be to lead and support the city. This is a very exciting time to join the council.


Additional Information:


Application to be submitted in the form of a CV and shortlisting questions by: 13th of April 2023


Additional information:

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.


We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers.

Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration.

These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of worki
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