Assistant Director

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**:SMT2 £104,187.00

**Hours Per Week**:36 Hours

**Base Location**:Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

**Assessment Date**: Monday 17 March 2025

**The Role**

If you are looking for a challenging but rewarding strategic and leadership role in Strategy, Change and Improvement, working in a proactive team that makes a difference, then look no further than this opportunity. You will need to be a proven leader with drive, ambition and a passion for excellence to lead and achieve the ambitions within our Corporate Plan.

Supporting our new Chief Executive and Executive Cabinet, the Assistant Director role is an exciting and challenging opportunity for an experienced leader who is passionate and driven to design and implement successful strategies and approaches to support the delivery of large scale organisational change and improvement.

You will ensure a comprehensive corporate policy and performance framework is in place and embedded across the council as well as leading and managing a modern business intelligence and analysis function. You will oversee the Council’s equality, diversity and inclusion activities as well as actively horizon scan for intelligence and insight on best practice and opportunities for innovation and transformation.

We therefore seek an exceptional leader who has a deep understanding of what makes a local authority excel, as well as the skills and insight to ensure we are at the forefront of good practice.

We know we have a challenging journey ahead of us, but have the building blocks in place and we are determined to create a stronger, more innovative council.

**About You**

We are looking for a strong, credible and experienced leader who has passion and determination to drive improvement.
- Significant experience working in a political environment and providing support and advice to Elected Members and senior officers
- Experience of leading the development and delivery of strategic objectives and policies through effective corporate and service planning
- Planning, prioritising, persevering and delivering improvement to achieve objectives within timescales
- Experience of performance management in a customer focused business/organisation
- A strong understanding of local government policy and equality landscape and legislation
- Relevant Degree and experience
- Results and outcomes focused solutions
- Ability to learn continuously
- Evidence based decision making

Through your leadership, you will drive forward the Policy, Performance and Improvement agenda enabling services to establish and sustain effective operating models, ensuring they are effectively engaged and supported. In addition, you will lead and support the continued development and effective utilisation of corporate systems to ensure we have effective business intelligence in place and insight data to inform our approach and priorities.

To be successful in the role you will be a proactive, driven individual with an up-to-date knowledge of best practice and strategic thinking in public services, along with proven relevant experience. You will be a confident influencer, adept at managing multiple priorities.

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here.

Reference Number: DPT598