| What we value at Westminster | Westminster City Council believes in creating a Fairer Westminster where residents are at the heart of decision making and help to determine the city’s future. Working with residents across the Fairer Westminster themes of communities, housing, economy and environment, 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. |
| Our culture | At Westminster we have a culture of openness, transparency and integrity – where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and develop to be the very best. The Westminster Way is the council’s commitment to our staff and is underpinned by three pillars: • Personal development: Everyone has talent. We want everyone to thrive at Westminster and so we take the time to nurture talent – coaching and mentoring our people to be the very best. • Value our people and diversity: Everyone is valued. We embrace our differences, to bring new perspectives to the future challenges of our city. • The Westminster Way of working: Everyone is a leader. At Westminster we encourage everyone to develop themselves to have a growth mindset and an outward looking approach to provide the best service to our residents, businesses and visitors. We champion modern and agile working and an open and transparent outlook to the way we work. In order to do the very best for our communities, we believe that our workforce should be representative of the people we work on behalf of, our residents. That’s why at Westminster we celebrate and embrace our differences. We are passionate about creating a workplace where all can thrive, and where every single person has the opportunity to develop, grow and to be valued for their contribution. |
| Portfolio/responsibilities of this role | As a member of the Council’s Senior Leadership Team to contribute proactively to the collective leadership of the Council, working collaboratively with members, services across the Council, partners and stakeholders to deliver the Council’s objectives and priorities. The role will involve significant partnership working, recognising the cross-cutting nature of the North Paddington Programme and the need to work across all services to achieve improved outcomes across health, early years and education, economy and employment, crime and safety, climate, community and housing, leading the Council’s priority to reduce inequality in the Borough. To model and embed the Council’s values and behaviours to help build a diverse, inclusive, flexible and agile organisation ready to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future. Provide professional leadership to help build a sustainable and highly effective organisation and develop our reputation as a successful Council delivering great value for its residents. Specific purpose Provide outstanding leadership and direction of the North Paddington Programme. Taking an outcomes-based, data and evidence led approach to the ownership of this multi-faceted, place-based Programme, to drive the sustained reduction of inequality across the Borough. Lead the collaboration of colleagues and Services across the Council to ensure a ‘One Council’ approach to tackling inequality. Establish, develop, own and lead a wide network of relationships with Community and delivery partners across North Paddington. Through these relationships ensure and enable true, inclusive, representative co-creation with our residents and community partners, which is demonstrably evidenced in the delivery of the North Paddington Programme outputs and outcomes. Take proactive ownership of the entire North Paddington delivery portfolio to ensure efficient and effective monitoring and management of: Programme delivery plans Finance and resource planning Risk and issue reporting Change Management Performance management Benefits identification and realisation plans Ensure consistent reporting products and processes are in place at Department, Directorate and Corporate level to enable a well-managed escalation process to the Programme SRO and Corporate Governance partners and to ensure effective risk management. Lead consistent and continuous impact evaluation to influence, ensure and demonstrate the achievement of agreed outcomes for the North Paddington Programme and the reduction of inequality across the Borough. Provide strategic leadership for the future of the North Paddington Programme and the wider Council priority to tackle inequality in the Borough. Think beyond the existing Programme of work to tackle inequality in North Paddington, and across Westminster, by developing and driving plans for sustainable and systemic change in the delivery of Council Services and by sourcing opportunities to maximise sustained private funding and partnership working. To be fully responsible for managing the revenue, capital and externally funded budgets within remit, ensuring that effective budgetary controls, contributing to the Council’s savings and efficiency plans. Take ownership and accountability for your personal development and empower others to develop and grow. Ensure Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of all decision making, development and delivery. |
| Budget Responsibilities – TBC Staffing budget – TBC | |
| What do we expect this role to achieve? | Ownership and strategic leadership of the Council’s North Paddington programme to deliver improved outcomes across health, education, economy and employment, crime and safety, climate, community and housing, supporting the Council’s priority to reduce inequality in the Borough. Lead the ongoing development and delivery of an ambitious, sustainable change Programme for North Paddington, co-created with the Community, developed and delivered with all Council Services, Community Partners and external delivery partners. Collaborate across the Council to ensure: A One Council approach Effective and efficient delivery of the entire portfolio or projects, programmes Improved service delivery for, and ways of working with, the North of the Borough Coordinated engagement with external delivery partners, residents and community representatives Coordination and collaboration with other corporate and strategic priorities across the Council A long term, sustainable vision and plan for tackling inequality in North Paddington and across the Borough Represent the Council within the North Paddington Community. Develop effective, collaborative relationships with all external stakeholders across North Paddington, and beyond to tackle inequality. |
| Band/Salary range | Negotiable depending on experience 113,100 – 139,992 |
| Work style | Agile and flexible working conditions. The postholder will be expected to be primarily based in North Paddington offices. |
| Your manager & team | Reports to: Executive Director for Regeneration, Economy and Planning |
| Direct Reports: Matrix management of 2 x Band 5 | |
| Experience | Leading and managing at all levels, supporting learning and development and fostering positive, inclusive working environment that supports staff development and wellbeing. Leading and delivering significant community-led place-based programmes of change from inception to completion, in a complex organisational context. Developing sustained, systemic, community-led place-based change. Establishing and building partnerships and productive working relationships within a complex organisational environment, with senior colleagues and stakeholders. Community engagement, building and developing positive relationships with a wide range of community partners and working with the community to co create. Successful resource and programme management in a multi-disciplinary matrix environment, track record of managing large budgets, business planning, quality and performance management. Delivering improved organisational culture, equality, diversity and fairness. Strategic business and financial planning, and the delivery of high profile, complex capital programs, and services. Working in a complex organisational setting including drawing on and developing expertise and evidence to support the design and implementation of new and innovative approaches or actions. Setting the strategic direction, making decisions and driving forward progress with impact, in sometimes challenging or uncertain circumstances. Delivering value for money, considering the financial and commercial implications of decisions and deriving income/savings through creative, efficient working practices |
| Skills | The ability to work effectively under pressure, to prioritise and manage deadlines and demonstrate sound judgement and political awareness. The ability to think and act independently, proactively and strategically, and to help set a clear direction for others through clear and effective communication. Proven ability to lead and influence others and ensure effective relationships building, teams building, collaborative stakeholder engagement and excellent communications (written and verbal) to deliver results. Good attention to detail and the ability to provide insight through the analysis of complex data sets. Innovative thinker that can demonstrate how a wider perspective has impacted their work. Proficient in MS Office Excel, Project and PowerPoint. Proven ability to manage political and cultural issues and deliver project, programme and change management programmes. Ability to translate strategic objectives into operational plans. Ability to deploy advanced interpersonal skills to inspire, motivate, coach and develop team members to high levels of performance. Excellent performance, financial and budget management skills with the ability to deliver outcomes through creative and efficient working practices. Strong programme management capability, including risk management and clear exception reporting. A strong and proven commitment to equality and diversity, both as a leader and a service deliverer, with an ability to demonstrate personal leadership on the importance of diversity. Evidence of a growth mindset to further professional, managerial and personal development |
| Qualifications N/A | |
| Corporate standards | Resources / Financial management We expect you to manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in line with our processes and our Westminster Way Values and behaviours Our values and behaviours are at the heart of everything we do. We expect you to work in this Westminster Way empowering, engaging and encouraging your teammates. Compliance We expect you to ensure legal, regulatory and policy compliance in area of your specialism, identifying opportunities and risks and escalate/report where appropriate. Equality and diversity We value equality and diversity as a city council and we want you to support and promote this in your day-to-day work. |
| Additional values and behaviours for Managers | People and Service Management Role model the Westminster Way: Demonstrate inclusive leadership Take the lead in driving initiatives Be proactive in being forward and outward looking, by regularly investing in own development. Driving forward performance by empowering staff to take the lead. Setting high standards, encouraging improvement and innovation. Supporting the team to achieve by adopting a coaching style of management Having regular employee led conversations to develop our people – creating a safe environment for learning, taking time to understand their strengths and motivations, stretching them and coaching them to achieve. Managing budgets responsibly – planning, monitoring and adapting budgets to respond to changing priorities. Delivering the Medium Term Plan Working within the democratic framework – understanding the democratic process and its role in public organisations, anticipating Member needs and responding to their feedback. |
