Assistant Director (Early Intervention and Prevention) Join to apply for the Assistant Director (Early Intervention and Prevention) role at Manchester City Council Direct message the job poster from Manchester City Council Grade: SS3 Salary: £91,985 to £101,692 per annum Location: Manchester Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent Closing Date: 6th November 2025 In-person interviews: 18th November 2025 Manchester prides itself on being a warm and inviting city with something to offer to everyone. We are committed to bringing about a more inclusive city, where people have access to top-class education and training, and where the economic opportunities that such a vibrant city creates are accessible to all. We have a whole-city approach to building a safe, happy, healthy and successful future for all children and young people. We have made great strides in our progress and impact for inclusion in the UNICEF programme for accreditation of child-friendly city status. In Children and Education Services, we are recognised for our reforms and innovation, and this has contributed towards delivering excellence. We are looking for an inspirational Strategic Leader to continue our effective work and to meet new requirements outlined in the Families First for Children Programme. As Assistant Director (Early Intervention and Prevention) you will lead the strategic development and delivery of early intervention and prevention services across the city. This includes the expansion of Family Hubs, and wholescale transformation aligned with the Families First programme and delivery of the Best Start for Life Strategy. You will play a key role in shaping this work to ensure the services we offer to families are timely and accessible to all. Success will rely on further developing multi-disciplinary and partnership working to ensure services wrap around the needs of families at the right time to improve outcomes. We are looking for someone who, like us, has high aspirations for children, can work as part of a team and has a well-developed leadership skill set. The role is pivotal to our neighbourhood and placed based working arrangements and you will ensure strategic priorities are delivered. You will make a distinct contribution to our commitment to ongoing, fast paced improvement drawing on your experience of continuous improvement, quality assurance, change management and innovation. Manchester’s ethos is to ensure that all the people in our city can thrive and are able to benefit from the opportunities that our economic growth brings. Our workforce is at the heart of this – and we have created the conditions, whereby colleagues have the skills, knowledge and ability to allow their careers to flourish. Working in Manchester gives you the chance to do things that you wouldn’t get to do in other places, and it is a hugely exciting place to live and work. We are looking for an experienced leader who will bring passion, drive and can forge strong relationships with children and their families, colleagues and partners, and exert influence across the city, and more importantly deliver high standards of practice. In return we will offer you plenty of challenges as well as opportunities to innovate and personally develop, working alongside a dedicated and talented set of colleagues who work collaboratively to deliver our vision and ambitions for the children and young people of Manchester. It is through true partnerships that children and young people can truly thrive in Manchester - to find out how to be a part of Manchester’s success story please click here: Home - Leading in Manchester To apply please visit our website: https://tinyurl.com/bduc5enu

Seniority level: Director Employment type: Full-time Job function: Business Development and Sales Industry: Government Administration

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