Head of Assurance and Delivery Partnerships

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Company Description

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You'll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week.

As the UK's largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we're busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as Head of Assurance & Delivery Partnerships

As an experienced head of, you will assure the full delivery of the rural footprint to ensure both internal and external targets can be delivered in the timeliest and cost-efficient way. You will lead and manage wayleave acquisition across the rural footprint to ensure seamless build progress. You will have experienced in development &a implementation of Land Access Strategy, fostering strategic partnerships while driving compliance with industry standards.

You'll receive a competitive salary, car allowance and a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Lead and manage wayleave acquisition across the rural footprint to ensure seamless build progress, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop and manage the Land Access Strategy, focusing on efficient and compliant processes.
• Engage in industry working groups to represent and advance City Fibre's strategic interests. Collaborate with DNOs and other partners to optimize Access to Infrastructure (ATI) opportunities.
• Lead the improvement of operational assurance processes and tools to ensure broken orders within the BDUK footprint are tracked are minimised. This must focus on both proactive and reactive action plans.

What you'll bring to the role

As an experienced Head of Assurance, You'll also have:

• Significant experience managing external Wayleaves partners, developing, scope, operating principles and the contract framework and managing in-life.
• Experience in developing and implement policy and SOPs, manage resources, including internal teams and outsourced partners, along with the ability to create and refine templates for wayleave agreements, ensuring they meet current legislation.
• Detailed understanding of statutory and legal frameworks under which City Fibre can build its instal and maintain its infrastructure such as the Electronic Communications Code 'The Code' and the Digital Economy Act.
• Proven leader able to develop and motivate a team on internal and external wayleave professionals

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We're a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We're endorsed by WORK180 and we're a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we're a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we're wholly committed to ensuring that our people's voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you'd like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Qualifications

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!