Transformation Project Manager

This is a specialist role, responsible for the successful delivery of priority projects that involve service improvement, change management and continuous improvement. As part of this, you will:

• Lead and manage service improvement projects, across the end-to-end life cycle, from business case and project initiation through the phases and implementation to agreed time, cost, and quality criteria, with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for CYP and financial sustainability of services.


• Work with, and gaincommitmentfrom internal clients and stakeholders to anagreedproject mandate, objectives and expected measurable outputs for service improvement initiatives, including implementation.


• Provide subject matter expertise, support, and guidance to project proposals, including the most suitable approaches to service improvement, change management and continuous improvement.


• Provide rigour in delivery of service transformation projects in accordance with accepted best practice and in align with corporate approaches, the council's values (Delivering the FutureTogether) and aspirations (Children's Oxfordshire Way) to develop new ways of working across all service.


• Line manage a small number of CEF transformation team members.
  
  You will be motivated by making a tangible difference to the lives of children and young people and as a transformation and change management professional in a service design and improvement environment.


You will need to demonstrate a track record of delivering improved service performance including outcomes, operational efficiency, and cost reduction/avoidance.

Experience of working in local government and/or the wider public sector service economy would be desirable, but not essential, as private sector experience will enable us to look at our challenges from another perspective.

Experience of digital service design will be especially useful and desirable, but not essential., Disability Confident
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Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We're seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of 'daring to do it differently', as we continue to strive to do better.

Children, Education and Families (CEF) is a directorate of dedicated children's services professionals faced with continuing increases in demand, costs, and complexity of needs across social care and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

In response, our vision and strategy are to transform services to secure even better outcomes for children and young people and improve financial sustainability.

To achieve this, we have a portfolio of service transformation programmes to shape and deliver, which will enable us, amongst other things, to become increasingly focused on early help and intervention, working more effectively with our local area partners.

Our investment in CEF has created a number of vacancies; we are looking for experienced transformation and change management professionals to join our newly established CEF Transformation Team working to deliver and help shape projects that will make a bigger difference to children, young people, and their parent carers; it's a really exciting time to join us!


• Annual leave starting at 30 days per year (plus bank holidays).


• Culture of flexible working


• Technology to support agile working where role permits


• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, employer's contribution of up to 19.9%


• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeingsupport24 x7.


• Range of family friendly policies.


• Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme, range of staff discounts including travel, holidays, insurance, food, health & leisure activities.


• Excellent learning and development opportunities.


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Our commitment to:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support, education and safe spaces for all., We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, part time working, job sharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.

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