Strategic Delivery Lead - Housing Needs / Housing Services WCC618678

As a Strategic Delivery Lead you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. You'll have an important role in leading our Housing Needs Programme Management Office (PMO) or our Housing Services PMO and delivering the department's priorities - these range from developing strategic level relationships and supporting vital services to driving the delivery of outcomes. Your key challenges will involve acting as a catalyst as you help our stakeholders successfully deliver their priority projects and programmes, and using all your expertise to support senior leaders and their teams as they resolve any risks or cross-cutting issues.

Working to ensure that the relevant priorities are aligned in accordance with council strategies and are delivered in ways that will enable us to realise tangible benefits, we'll expect you to collaborate with your colleagues in the Housing Needs and Housing Services PMO and beyond as you advise on strategic developments. In order to achieve successful outcomes, you'll develop a deep understanding of our change agenda and priorities, and be ready to inform the executive board about project risks, dependencies, delivery confidence and management plans. With this in mind, it's crucial that you build close relationships with local delivery teams and the PMO team.

This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, self-starter to work at the heart of Westminster City Council while delivering a complex and ambitious change agenda. We're committed to making a strong investment in the personal and professional development of our people, and when you join us you'll be supported and encouraged to develop your talent and leadership potential.

With well developed experience of working alongside stakeholders on strategic change programmes in a large and complex public sector organisation, you'll have the confidence to challenge team and senior leaders on delivery plans and their readiness to deliver them. Capable of thinking strategically about the root causes of issues and risks, and advising on the best way to address these, you'll have a track record of leading and managing complex, cross-functional projects, and of developing relevant management products and processes to ensure successful delivery.

Ready to work independently and flexibly and with a strong focus on delivering positive outcomes, we'll expect you to lead by example, and inspire and influence our stakeholders and everyone else you work with to improve the delivery of change. Committed to fostering an environment that supports collaboration, openness and transparency, and with the ability to pre-empt issues and execute mitigating actions, you'll possess the analytical and lateral thinking skills necessary to develop outcome-focused change strategies and solutions.

A creative problem solver with a proactive attitude and the ability to identify gaps and bring clarity to complex situations, you'll be highly resourceful with strong emotional intelligence, self-motivation, and strong critical thinking skills. Able to prioritise tasks and activities and successfully navigate varying degrees of ambiguity in a fast-paced environment, your superb interpersonal and communication skills will see you developing excellent relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, partners and colleagues.

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., 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.