Chief Officer Place

Midlothian Council; Dalkeith; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Midlothian Council in Dalkeith seeks a Chief Officer Place to lead and transform Place services, focusing on innovative strategies for local economic growth and sustainable development. You will drive performance, culture change and cross‑organisational collaboration with the Council and partners.

The role includes budget oversight, governance, risk, and policy development to meet community needs and improve service delivery across Housing, Planning, Building Standards and more.

Qualifications

• Experience leading transformation initiatives.
• Strategic leadership experience in large public service or major financial sector.
• Understanding of regulation and governance in public bodies.
• Extensive management experience: service delivery, budgeting, staff leadership.

Responsabilités

• Lead, develop and manage Place services to grow the local economy and promote inclusive, sustainable development.
• Oversee budgets, governance, risk and compliance; develop policies, service plans and delivery models.
• Collaborate with the Council, partners and external stakeholders to deliver citizen-centred services.

Description du poste

Chief Officer Place
Midlothian Council
Dalkeith

This role is responsible for supporting the Executive Director of Place by leading, developing, and managing Place services, with a focus on delivering innovative strategies that grow the local economy and promote inclusive, sustainable development. It involves driving organisational and cultural change, improving service performance, and ensuring effective collaboration across the Council, partners, and external stakeholders.

The position also includes overseeing budgets, governance, risk, and compliance, as well as developing policies, service plans, and delivery models that meet community needs.

Place Services encompasses

• Building Services which includes the Building Standards Service and Building Maintenance Service. The purpose of the Building Standards system is to protect the public interest and Building Standards provides co-ordinated and integrated regulatory advice for developers, architects, surveyors, engineers and the general public on progressing buildings and development projects.


• Housing Services is responsible for a number of key strategies that lead to the development of housing stock and tackle homelessness.


• Neighbourhood Services is Place’s ‘Hub and Spoke’ service. This service adopts a locality model of delivery, bringing together a number of key Place teams – Roads (operational, assets and policy), Travel & Fleet, Waste, and Land & Countryside to improve the quality of urban and rural spaces for Midlothian’s citizens.


• Planning, Sustainable Growth & Investment comprises the statutory town and country planning functions of the Council and also is responsible for increasing capacity of the local area to improve economic outcomes and uplift the area’s quality of life capitalising on the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.


• Property & Facilities Management provides a wide range of professional property and valuation advice, energy management, asset rationalisation, data management and development of G.I.S. systems and also professional and technical management across a number of sites.


• Protective Services brings together Place’s regulatory functions of Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Corporate Health and Safety, Contingency Planning and Risk.

Candidates must have substantial experience of leading transformation initiatives and delivering citizen-centred services, together with demonstrable experience of working effectively at a strategic and corporate level within a large public service or major financial sector organisation. This should include experience in one or more functional areas delivered by a public body, with a clear understanding of regulation and governance.

The role requires extensive management experience, including service delivery and improvement, strategic planning, partnership working, project and budget management, and staff leadership. Candidates should also have experience of liaising with external partners and promoting partnerships, alongside an understanding of the importance of diversity and equalities in service delivery and employment.

Closing Date: November 6th, 2026