Service Manager-City Centre Resources

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Working for Sheffield City Council

As one of the largest employers in Sheffield, with over 7,000 employees, we aim to recruit and develop people who share our passion for Sheffield. If you work for us, you will be part of a team, which provides a huge range of services to our 574,000 residents, businesses large and small, as well as to our many visitors to the city.

The Service Manager - City Centre Resources is an exciting opportunity for you to lead and develop a new approach to managing our City Centre as it develops and regenerates. We have ambitious plans for our city centre, which will transform the contribution it makes regionally and nationally. Our vision is for a well-connected, high profile city centre with a quality environment that supports business, employment, residential and cultural opportunities. The recently completed £470m Heart of The City II development is the beating heart of the cities regeneration, comprising of a celebration of heritage buildings alongside brand new contemporary buildings, including the award winning Cambridge Street Collective, Europe largest foodhall, and Pound's Park, an urban family space for children to play and families relax.

In Sheffield we want everyone to enjoy living, working and visiting our city centre. In the city centre management team, we manage high quality public realm areas, attracting and delivering a range of events, promotions and activities to engage visitors and residents alike. We work closely with other partners and stakeholders to ensure our city centre is a clean, safe, welcoming environment in the daytime, as well as for our nighttime economy.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced professional with a background in place management, with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to lead partners, the voluntary sector and other key stakeholders to deliver joined up services focussed on the needs of our local communities.

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate innovation in creating new approaches to managing our developing city centre and work with our partners to deliver improvements across a range of service in the city centre.

You will directly manage a team already delivering place management in the city centre including the City Centre Ambassidors. You will create a 'Team around the Place' approach through excellent leadership and negotiation skills, working with services such as. Highways, Waste, Local Area Committees, Parks, Housing, South Yorkshire Police and volunteering groups.

So, if you are a strategic thinker who can work with partners and stakeholders to develop and deliver new ways of working to get the best for our city centre, then we look to receiving your application.

Additional information is included to enable you to be aware of the scale of our ambition and the strategic ambitions you will help us realise

• Shefield's City Goals Sheffield City Goals
• the Council Plan Sheffield City Council Plan 2024-28 | Council Plan

We're ambitious

Our Council vision is for Sheffield to flourish as a modern city that is socially and environmentally just, with great opportunities and wellbeing for everyone.

Our priorities are to empower people and businesses to thrive, build sustainability into all areas of life and keeping Sheffield's diverse communities at the heart of all our plans.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy sets out our equality commitments to the people of Sheffield and our staff and how we will meet them.

We are a City Council, where we are investing for the future. This includes investment in the skills and capabilities of our workforce and attracting new talent to deliver for Sheffield and ensure our people reflect the city we serve.

Informal contact Ben Brailsford - [email protected]

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We particularly welcome women to apply for this job, as they are under-represented in this service.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.