Strategic Transformation Lead

6 months ago


Dorchester, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
**Children’s Services transformation: exciting opportunity to come and join us.**

Due to colleagues securing promotions, we have two fantastic opportunities to come and join our team at one of the most exciting times ever for children’s services in Dorset and nationally.

Our Children’s Services transformation team is part of our Commissioning Service and are playing a key role at the heart of the work we are doing in Dorset to pilot national reforms for children’s services through the Pathfinder: Families First for Children.

The Strategic Transformation Lead is a critical role providing the capacity to be agile and flexible to respond to business need, emerging opportunities and fulfil project management demands. This role has strategic oversight of programme governance and takes the lead on benefits realisation. We are looking for someone who can analyse, assimilate and use evidence from a wide range of sources including data, intelligence and research and translate this into strategies, policies and plans. If you have experience, knowledge and skills in providing senior programme leadership across a portfolio of projects then we'd love to hear from you.

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, are an exceptional organiser and communicator, love to work in partnership and alongside colleagues, thrive in an energetic working environment, we would love to hear from you.

You would be welcomed into a kind and supportive team who are all about generously sharing their knowledge and experience and helping each other to succeed and thrive.

The context statement provides more information.

**Further Information**:
This is a fixed term opportunity for 12 months with the potential to extend.

This is a full time role at 37 hours per week.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

**About Us**:
At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.



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