Director of Corporate Services

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A national public service organization in the City Of London seeks a Director of Corporate Services to shape corporate functions and ensure high-quality service delivery. The successful candidate will lead teams across HR, IT, and Policy departments, enhancing service to the public. Extensive management experience and effective leadership skills are essential. Applications due by 12 noon on December 1, 2025.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing corporate functions.
• Highly effective leadership skills.
• Ability to deliver quality services to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape the evolution of corporate functions.
• Lead HR, IT, Policy, Communications, and governance.
• Manage a team of approximately 25 colleagues.

Skills

Leadership

Continuous improvement

Customer focus

Innovation

Job description

A new opportunity has arisen for an outstanding individual to join the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s Executive Team as Director of Corporate Services. This new role gives you the opportunity to shape the evolution of our functions, making sure we are effective in our service to the public and ensuring we use our insight to support the improvement of local government and social care services across England.

You will be joining a national organisation with a dedicated and inclusive team, working in a rapidly changing policy environment. We are committed to bringing fairness, addressing injustice, enabling public services to get better and improving people’s lives: if you share our values then we want to hear from you.

We are seeking a talented, motivated leader focused on delivering the highest quality of services to the people who seek our help, the organisations we oversee, our stakeholders and our colleagues. You should be able to bring ambition, innovation and fresh thinking to our services and how we deliver them.

The Director of Corporate Services reports directly to the Chief Executive and is a member of the Executive Team. The role leads and manages the Human Resources, IT, Policy and Communications, Operational support, Projects and Programmes and the committee and governance functions, overseeing around 25 colleagues.

If you have the extensive experience of managing corporate functions and highly effective leadership skills we are looking for, with an ethos of continuous improvement and customer focus, then we look forward to your application.

Please visit https://www.lgo.org.uk/jobs/vacancies and following the instructions to apply.

You will need to provide your employment and qualification history plus a supporting statement explaining why you want this role and addressing the criteria in the knowledge & experience section of the Person Specification.

Your application must be received by 12 noon on Monday 1st December 2025. We regret that late applications will not be accepted.