Executive Director (Community and Enterprise Resources)

£164,460 - £169,077

Permanent: 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Monday - Thursday 8.45am - 4.45pm, and Friday 8.45am - 4.15pm

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational leader to join the Corporate Management Team to continue our work to make South Lanarkshire the best place to live in the country.

South Lanarkshire Council is one of Scotland’s biggest and most progressive local authorities. It is an ambitious, high-performing organisation with a clear vision to improve the quality of life of everyone in the area.

The successful candidate for this post will lead the delivery and further development of the following services.

• Facilities, Waste and Grounds Services
• Roads and Transportation Services
• Fleet and Environmental Services
• Planning and Economic Development Services

Crucial to your success will be your ability to build trust and confidence. You will display a high level of personal credibility aligned with excellent communication skills which allow you to work productively with Elected Members, employees and our partners.

The successful candidate must demonstrate significant Head of Service or Director level experience in strategic and operational management across large complex organisations and have experience of successfully addressing the key challenges facing public services in Scotland.

You must be able to offer clear strategic direction, be able to analyse and understand complex performance information, and be able to work with others to translate this into effective deployment of resources in order to achieve the highest levels of service delivery and customer satisfaction.

Suitable candidates for this challenging role will possess a strong focus on delivering customer service needs within relevant legislative parameters.

You should be educated to degree level and/or relevant and equivalent professional qualification.

When completing the application process please ensure you provide a separate supporting document covering the following areas:

1. The Executive Director of Community and Enterprise Resources has responsibility for a diverse range of services and the successful candidate will be required to lead and direct multi-functional teams across the Resource. Please outline your experience of leading multi- functional teams at Head of Service or Executive Director level or above across multiple service areas and what experience and skills you have utilised to maximise impact?

1. With lead responsibility for frontline services, you will be required to ensure these are delivered across strategic, operational, and financial requirements. Considering these requirements, describe your involvement and level of responsibility in service delivery to meet recognised standards and legislative requirements in a challenging financial context?

1. Please outline a significant transformational change project you have led at a senior level, detailing what the key deliverables were and how your involvement ensured success, and that the outcome aligned to the delivery of strategic objectives.

Recruitment Checks

Please apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address.

As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks for example, Identity, Asylum and Immigration and employment history.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.

This post has been politically restricted in terms of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.

Foreign Police Check - Candidates should be able to detail any gaps in employment and provide a foreign police check where applicable if you have lived or worked for 3 months or more (consecutively) abroad in the last 10 years.

Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential requirements for the position.

South Lanarkshire Council is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the British Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview who meet the minimum essential requirements for the position.

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• To increase the value of their pension pot, Local Government Employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave enhanced leave.
• Employee Discounts – including discounts at the cinema.
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)