Performance Manager

Blue Arrow; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking a Performance Manager to lead the performance team and manage the performance cycle. You will develop performance policies, provide expert advice, and ensure alignment with council ambitions. The ideal candidate has experience in public sector performance frameworks and the ability to work sensitively within a political environment. This role is crucial for improving performance and ensuring timely decision-making.

Qualifications

• Proven achievement of success working in complex public sector organisation.
• Experience of designing performance frameworks across complex public sector organisations.
• Ability to operate sensitively in a political environment.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the development and implementation of performance monitoring systems.
• Provide advice and guidance to senior leaders on performance activity.
• Lead, develop and manage performance frameworks and improvements.

Job description

Lead the Performance team in managing the performance cycle at both strategic and departmental levels. Ensure alignment of Council actions with its ambitions. Develop and maintain performance policies and frameworks, provide expert advice, and deliver regular reports to support informed decision-making

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Be responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate performance monitoring and reporting systems across the Council, and the production of regular performance monitoring reports.
2. Provide advice and guidance to senior leaders and members on performance activity, promoting the use of intelligent analysis and research to provide assurance to the organization that oversight of performance and quality activity is timely, robust and transparent.
3. Lead, develop and manage the development, implementation and continuous improvement of performance frameworks, researching, identifying and implementing new and innovative solutions to improve how data is extracted and presented.
4. Manage the Performance team overseeing strategic and departmental performance cycles.
5. Develop and implement an outcome-focused Performance Management Framework and related strategies and maintenance of the Council's Performance Management Policy.
6. Reintroduce and sustain Departmental Service Plans to embed performance management at both a departmental and strategic level.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven achievement of success working in complex public sector organisation with experience of devising effective strategies and policies which improve performance.
• Experience of designing or supporting the design of Performance Frameworks, across a whole complex public sector organisation, with supporting information and monitoring arrangements which allow for robust scrutiny and enable timely decision making to address concerns about performance and realign effort.
• Ability to operate sensitively in a political environment, developing relationships with all members gaining respect, trust, and confidence when delivering performance information.

Please apply today!

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