North Paddington Programme Director WCC618686

Job Details:

All applications must apply via Mclean Executive Search at https://wccnorthpaddington.mcleanpublic.com. Please contact Rebecca Rampat on rebecca.rampat@mcleanpublic.com. No applications will be consider via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors portal.

Salary range: £113,100 – 139,992 per annum.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent
Politically Restricted post: Yes 
Closing date: 20 October 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 22 November 2024
Contact details for Informal discussion: Tamara Jarvis, Director of Strategic Change, via email: tjarvis1@westminster.gov.uk

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION 

Regeneration, Economy and Planning 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 North Paddington Programme Director, you can make your own powerful contribution to community-focused regeneration. Taking the lead on one of our highest priority programmes, you’ll deliver sustainable change for one of the most deprived areas of Westminster. This is a unique opportunity to bring about real change that can improve quality of life, health and wellbeing, and life expectancy for our residents. 

The North Paddington Programme is a truly cross-cutting, collaborative initiative to reduce inequality in the Borough. You’ll work across all Council services, and with a wide range of community and delivery partners, to make lasting change happen. Together you will deliver improved outcomes across health, education, economy, employment, crime, safety, climate, community and housing. 

We’ll look to you to lead a multi-disciplinary team that brings together Communities and Corporate Programme Management Leads with Directors and Leads from across wider Council services. Under your leadership, the team will forge great working relationships across the organisation. Like you, they’ll relish the chance to work flexibly – and with great autonomy – on a wide variety of different projects. 

As a champion of delivering change, you’ll draw on your expertise and deep knowledge to influence and support people in a range of departments. You will take an outcomes-based, data and evidence led approach to the ownership of this multi-faceted, place-based programme. Your remit will span the monitoring and management of programme delivery plans, finance and resource planning, risk and issue reporting, change management, performance management, benefits identification and realisation plans. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be equal to the challenge you’ll need a track record of leading significant place-based change programmes from inception to completion. We’ll expect you to bring exceptional people skills, with a flair for rapidly building excellent relationships with delivery and community partners. A keen eye for detail helps you spot future risks and ensure the portfolio aligns with Council strategies, policies and services. From the way you manage resource and budgets, to the skill with which you develop strategic plans, and your inspirational approach to shaping an empowering culture with equality at its heart, you have the tools and tenacity it takes to ensure we deliver tangible benefits and achieve ambitious outcomes for residents.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 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.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

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.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

All applications must apply via Mclean Executive Search at https://wccnorthpaddington.mcleanpublic.com. Please contact Rebecca Rampat on rebecca.rampat@mcleanpublic.com. No applications will be consider via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors portal.