Head of Engagement and Strategy

7 months ago


Westminster, United Kingdom City of Westminster Council Full time

**About Us**:
**THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION**

Growth, Planning and Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places.

Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making. The future is safe in her hands.

Please view the extraordinary story of Serena’s Vision **here**.

**The Role**:
As the Head of Engagement and Strategy for our Oxford Street Programme, you’ll make your own powerful contribution. Our vision for Oxford Street is an ambitious one that will strengthen its status as the nation’s high street, and we’re looking for someone to develop and manage the place-based engagement and strategy for the overall programme and its individual elements.

In this role, you’ll lead, deliver, and oversee engagement across all projects, you’ll lead the delivery of strategic workstreams, managing programme communications and messaging, and setting recommendations for improving engagement. You’ll be the lead contract for externally commissioned engagement activities, liaising with a range of stakeholders, colleagues and organisations to get the best out of these relationships. You will bring people together to solve strategic delivery challenges, resolve conflict points and oversee the governance of the programme and individual projects.

You’ll manage and guide members of your team in developing engagement workstreams and activities, working towards maximum efficiency, and identifying opportunities for innovation.

Please refer to the **Job Description** for more information.

**About You**:
An established professional with significant experience of leading engagement, strategic planning and delivery on complex programmes, you’ll be capable of building strong, collaborative relationships with a range of senior stakeholders. You’ll have substantial knowledge of procurement and supplier relationship management, and experience of developing effective evaluation, performance and risk management frameworks and processes. You’ll have worked within a complex political and service environment with a diverse range of colleagues, organisations and stakeholders.

On a personal level, you’ll be an excellent communicator with honed analytical, visualisation, and interpretation skills. You’ll have the innate ability to effectively multi-task, and work flexibility within a programme with changing needs. A natural leader, you’ll be capable of motivating, developing and shaping your team. Most importantly, you’ll be a person passionate about ensuring Oxford Street continues to be a global destination that provides an unrivalled visitor experience and remains a vibrant and diverse business environment.

**What We Offer**:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to over 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.

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.



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