Senior Local Government Transformation Consultant

Channel 3 Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-based and hybrid working

25 days holiday allowance + bank

Contributory workplace pension

Life insurance

Health cash plan

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Channel 3 Consulting is seeking a Managing Consultant for Local Government to drive prevention-focused transformation across adults’ and children’s services. You will lead complex programmes, manage client relationships, and mentor teams to deliver lasting impact.

You will shape propositions, guide go-to-market initiatives, and ensure governance and quality across engagements while growing strategic accounts for Channel 3.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Local Government Children’s Services, SEND, Education, and/or Adult Social Services.
• Proven success in delivering transformation in local authority services.
• Strong consulting toolkit: problem-solving, programme management, communication.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of building and growing client accounts, identifying commercial opportunities, and winning work.
• Robust commercial acumen.
• Ability to lead complex programmes with matrixed teams, often across organisations or systems.
• Inclusive people leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, able to engage stakeholders from Corporate Leadership Teams to frontline.
• Strong ethics and integrity and be a role model to others.
• Experience across adult’s and children’s services and/or other local authority areas.
• Understanding of statutory frameworks and inspection regimes (Ofsted, CQC etc).
• Experience in defining and codifying service methodologies or creating accelerators that improve delivery quality and consistency.
• A track record in thought leadership, industry advocacy, or client led innovation.
• Recognised delivery and change qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead large projects or multi-workstream programmes that improve outcomes across local authority children’s and adult’s services.
• Take responsibility for delivering impact for clients across the transformation journey: diagnostic, transformation, assurance and lasting impact.
• Quality assure delivery, establish governance and unblock issues.
• Scrutinise and quality‑assure analysis and insights.
• Support the development of our delivery methodologies and toolkits, aligned to our wider organisations proven methods of delivering impact.
• Act as Engagement Lead on complex programmes, ensuring delivery to time, cost, quality standards and client satisfaction.
• Build trusted, influential relationships with senior stakeholders (DCS, DASS, Section 151 Officer, Chief Executive).
• Lead high‑impact workshops and executive presentations.
• Line‑manage, mentor and coach colleagues.
• Create high‑performing teams and role‑model our values.
• Act as a senior leader in the Local Government team, supporting the maturity and codification of our services, capabilities, and market offers.
• Mature Local Government propositions and codify methods.
• Contribute to our go-to-market strategy, marketing, thought leadership, and brand visibility in the sector.
• Mentor and develop consulting talent, shaping a team with both technical breadth and strategic acumen.
• Ensuring quality assurance processes within engagements/workstreams.
• Manage accounts commercially and grow partnerships with clients.
• Lead origination and growth of new opportunities, drawing from your network and market insight.
• Lead proposals and ensure strong commercial governance.
• Shape and develop commercial proposals that align with client need and Channel 3’s strategic positioning.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Programme management

Problem solving

Public sector experience

Job description

Channel 3 Consulting is seeking a Managing Consultant for Local Government to drive prevention-focused transformation across adults’ and children’s services. You will lead complex programmes, manage client relationships, and mentor teams to deliver lasting impact.

You will shape propositions, guide go-to-market initiatives, and ensure governance and quality across engagements while growing strategic accounts for Channel 3.