Executive Director of Place

Job Title: Executive Director - Place

Reference: CE107B

Service: Place

Grade: CX

Reports to: Chief Executive

Location: Delamere House

DBS: Yes - Basic

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Your job: As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, to provide collective leadership for the council, working collaboratively with Members, services across the council, partners and stakeholders to deliver the council's objectives and priorities.

Lead by example in modelling and embedding the council's core values and behaviours to help build a sustainable, highly effective organisation and develop our reputation as a successful council. Providing real and lasting value to residents, businesses and communities. Act as a champion for the needs of local people, create an environment to foster organisational agility, creativity and teamwork, where boundaries are pushed on how the Council and associated services operate.

Provide outstanding leadership and direction to a portfolio of services, driving service transformation and ensuring excellent joint working with Members and other stakeholders.

Our shared values: Drive, Integrity, Respect, Collaboration. Co-produced with our staff, these values are critical to achieving our vision as set out in the Cheshire East Plan.

Further information on the values can be found via the link Our values.

In this job you will include lead responsibilities around planning, regeneration, investment, infrastructure, housing, and transport to maximise opportunities for sustainable growth and supporting infrastructure for successful new and existing communities.

• Lead the development and implementation of a new spatial framework that covers planning, regeneration, investment, infrastructure, housing, and transport, to maximise opportunities to achieve sustainable growth and supporting infrastructure for successful new and existing communities.

Links for reference (information only):

• Drive the delivery of the council's economic development and growth strategies to secure greater revenue returns to support the council's core activities.
• Lead engagement with developers and partners, including business sectors, to facilitate achievement of strategic objectives.
• Ensure robust arrangements are in place so that the council meets its statutory duties in respect of housing, homelessness and planning; ensure the Arms Length Management Organisation delivers high quality housing and planning decisions balance living heritage with a safe, clean and green environment and essential services.
• Strategy development: As a member of the Corporate Leadership Team and reporting to the Chief Executive, shape the direction of the council to drive forward the public service reform agenda and ensure delivery of its priorities and value to residents. Provide a strategic vision for future development of services.
• Corporate leadership: As a senior leader, drive a range of departmental and cross-cutting initiatives to embed changes and model positive leadership behaviours that empower and engage teams in living the council values.
• Directorate leadership and management: Lead the integrated delivery, improvement, management and performance of a portfolio of council services, ensuring plans translate objectives into effective public services.
• Resources / Financial management: Ensure tight budgetary control, maximise value for money, and support outcome-based commissioning models to ensure price competition and risk transfer through contracts with third parties; develop commercial opportunities.
• Partners and stakeholders: Provide professional leadership to collaborate with all partners, securing agreement and participation of relevant agencies and stakeholders; foster cross-agency service integration to reduce demand.
• Business change: Drive business change to build a highly effective organisation and promote accountability; develop a council-wide culture for delivering services and achieving savings.
• Compliance: Ensure activities comply with the council's constitution, Standing Orders, financial regulations, health and safety and safeguarding responsibilities; manage performance and risk.
• Equality and diversity: Promote the aims of equality and diversity policies across all work, embedding diversity in workforce planning and service delivery.
• Flexibility: Undertake work as determined by the Chief Executive, up to a level consistent with principal responsibilities and within the area of Cheshire East Council.

• Relevant professional qualification (Postgraduate or relevant equivalent knowledge and experience).
• Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal development.
• Substantial experience leading and developing significant organisational functions or services in a large multi-disciplinary organisation with comparable scope, budgets and resources.
• Experience establishing and building partnerships and productive working relationships with senior managers, councillors, partner organisations, communities, public agencies and statutory bodies (including Government).
• Experience in managing large budgets, business planning, quality and performance management.
• Extensive knowledge of local government issues and the legal, financial and political context of public sector management; understanding statutory responsibilities of this post.
• Ability to provide leadership and delivery of change with passion and drive to elevate services.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with effective operational management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with networking, partnership, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to provide visible and supportive leadership, empowering and developing the workforce and fostering a positive culture.

Artificial Intelligence note: We embrace AI to enhance operations and innovation, while valuing human talent. If AI is used to support your application, provide a brief explanation to assist a fair selection process.

From time to time you may be asked to undertake work as determined by the Chief Executive and/or an Executive Director, within the scope of your role and location.

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