Performance Manager

DiverseJobsMatter; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined benefit pension (employer 28.0

28 days holiday

Corporate discounts

Free entry to English Heritage sites

Development opportunities

Job summary

Historic England is inviting applications for a Performance Manager to lead the organisation’s corporate performance framework and KPI development. The role involves shaping the Balanced Scorecard, delivering insight to senior stakeholders, and ensuring robust performance reporting to the Executive Team, Commission and DCMS.

This national, hybrid position can be based in multiple offices with home working. The successful candidate will curate insight, not just data, and drive data-led

Qualifications

• Experience leading corporate performance frameworks or performance reporting functions.
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing KPIs.
• Analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Experience producing strategic reports and communicating complex information clearly.
• Experience driving improvement, innovation or best practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership of Historic England’s corporate performance framework.
• Lead development of KPIs and Balanced Scorecard; provide insight to senior stakeholders.
• Deliver high-quality performance reporting to the Executive Team, Commission and DCMS.
• Curate insight from data to influence strategic decisions.

Skills

Lead corporate performance frameworks

KPIs development

Analytical and data interpretation

Influence senior stakeholders

Strategic reporting

Continuous improvement

Job description

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Performance Manager.

This is a full time, permanent contract position.

The location of this role is national, inclusive with hybrid working. You will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

What you will be doing

As our Performance Manager, you will be responsible for providing leadership of Historic England’s (HE) corporate performance framework, ensuring that performance is clearly defined, robustly monitored and effectively communicated.

You will lead the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the Balanced Scorecard, providing insight and challenge to senior stakeholders. You will be responsible for high quality performance reporting to the Executive Team (ET), Historic England Commission, including the Business and Finance Committee (BFC), and the organisation’s sponsoring department, the DCMS, strengthening data led decision-making. Your role is to curate insight, not just data, and you will contribute directly to strategic discussions.

Who we are looking for

• Experience leading corporate performance frameworks or performance reporting functions
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing KPIs
• Analytical and data interpretation skills
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
• Experience producing strategic reports and communicating complex information clearly
• Experience driving improvement, innovation or best practice

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.