Director of Prevention, Protection & Building Safety

GMCA; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join GMFRS as the Director of Prevention, Protection and Building Safety, where you'll lead transformative efforts to enhance service delivery across Greater Manchester. This role requires proven leadership skills, a commitment to organizational change, and the ability to forge effective partnerships with various stakeholders. If you're ready to influence the future of fire and rescue services and improve community outcomes, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading organizational transformation.
• Strong background in building effective partnerships with stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate inclusive leadership and embrace change.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to core delivery teams.
• Oversee the development and delivery of Local Remediation Acceleration Plans.
• Support political engagement at local and national levels.

Skills

Organizational transformation

Inclusive leadership

Cultural change

Strategic delivery

Relationship building

Education

Experience at Executive level

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Director of Prevention, Protection & Building Safety, Manchester

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GMCA

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Director of Prevention, Protection and Building Safety

Contract: 12-month fixed term contract, with the potential to extend. Secondments from other organisations are welcomed

Your Role:

We are pleased to share that we are now actively recruiting for our next Director of Prevention, Protection and Building Safety.

As the future Director of Prevention, Protection and Building Safety your role will be to provide strategic leadership to two core delivery teams who are leading the way in transforming and innovating in their respective fields of Prevention and Protection. This is an exciting time to join GMFRS, we are soon to publish our next Fire Plan for the period 2025 to 2029, which charts an ambitious path forward for the service over the next four years. It is a plan to take GMFRS to the next level, building on the significant improvements to date, enabling the organisation to go further and faster in the delivery of an outstanding service.

You will play a critical role in shaping future success, central to which will be the development of interventions to support the GM Mayoral Manifesto and Greater Manchester Strategy commitments, including the Housing First and Live Well priorities. In addition, you will also have a key role in supporting the Chief Fire Officer in their role as NFCC Protection Committee Chair.

A critical aspect of the role will include overseeing the development and delivery of Local Remediation Acceleration Plans, supporting political engagement at a local and national level. This will require relationship building and engagement with the Building Safety Regulator and Homes England to positively influence system change.

Supported by Heads of Service, who are experts in their respective fields, you will drive strategic change, be accountable for your service areas and bring outstanding leadership to our organisation. Leadership that encourages new ways of thinking, collaborative working and an inclusive approach to everything we do. As a valued member of the GMFRS Executive Leadership team, you will play a key role in influencing the future and direction for the organisation whilst ensuring the continued development of services to achieve the best outcomes for the communities we serve.

About You:

We are actively recruiting for a high performing individual with potential to lead at an Executive level. The successful applicant will be employed on Local Government Green Book terms and conditions.

We are looking for someone who has significant experience in organisational transformation, inclusive leadership, cultural change and strategic delivery with evidence-based outcomes. With well-developed communication skills, you will establish and maintain effective partnerships with all relevant agencies and our communities, and you will have solid experience of developing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders at local, regional and national levels.

The successful postholder will be able to demonstrate an ability to embrace and lead change through an inclusive leadership style, role modelling collaboration and creating a positive team culture, where colleagues feel valued, respected and empowered to perform at their best.

About Us:

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is an organisation with its sights set on the future an organisation that has firmly set itself on a new course for a better future. Our improvement journey is well underway. We are building at pace, with serious intent and enormous drive, and in doing so we are defining a new era for our Service, for the communities we serve and our workforce.

We are the most improved Fire and Rescue Service in England and one of the best performing. We are proud of our most recent HMICFRS report awarded ‘Good’ in 10 of the 11 areas whilst also being recognised in four areas for Positive Practice and two areas for Innovative Practice.

We are one of the largest Fire and Rescue Services outside London, covering an area of approximately 500 square miles and a culturally diverse population of 2.8 million people. Greater Manchester is a wonderfully vibrant, dynamic and growing city-region and an incredibly exciting and rewarding place to work.

Improving organisational culture remains a top priority for us we have taken a ‘culture first’ approach and under the leadership of our CFO, GMFRS has an unrelenting commitment to fostering cultural change. We have been recognised by Stonewall as the 34th LGBTQ+ inclusive employer in their Top 100 list. Our Rainbow Staff Network also won Stonewall’s Network Group of the Year.

How to Apply:

We will consider applications from high performing candidates who are operating at a Head of, Assistant Director or above in their current organisation. GMFRS can accommodate secondments from other Fire and Rescue Services, to explore these options and the role further please contact Susan Ashton [emailprotected] (Senior PA to Chief Fire Officer) to organise an informal conversation with our Chief Fire Officer Dave Russel.

If you think you can successfully deliver in this role, we would love to hear from you. Initial application will be through our careers website: https://www.greater.jobs/greater-manchester-fire-and-rescue-service via the submission of a CV accompanied by a supporting statement outlining your interest and suitability for the role.

The closing date for completed applications will be 09.00hrs on Monday 23 rd June 2025 and a range of assessments will take place leading up to Panel Interviews around the 7 th 18 th July 2025.

Mandatory Information:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

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This role is subject to a national Security Check (SC).

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Key documents/reading (links provided):

GMFRS Website: About Us - Greater Manchester Fire Rescue Service

HMICFRS reports: Greater Manchester - His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services

Greater Manchester Strategy: Greater Manchester Strategy - Greater Manchester Combined Authority