Strategy Manager (Engagement and Building portfolios)
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Strategy Manager (Engagement and Building portfolios)
Role Responsibility
Are you an experienced manager with a track record of driving efficiencies and developing strategies? Do you have excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills? If so, we want to hear from you!
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Strategy Manager to join our collaborative and innovative Strategy team in the KCC Infrastructure division. The division manages KCCs Property estate by defining the future direction and priorities of the council's property services to support the delivery of KCC's front line services and also integral to this is the Resilience and Emergency Planning Service, which ensures that all our services and assets are resilient to possible threats, delivers a 24/7 emergency management and response capability.
Working at one of the largest councils in the country, you will work alongside a team of Strategy Managers to produce the overarching strategies and standards for our property portfolio and Infrastructure service.
Your role will include:
- Leading on the development of change programmes across Infrastructure, to ensure strategies deliver efficiency targets or service improvements,
- Developing asset strategies, producing business cases and options appraisals, and engaging with stakeholders and partners to ensure optimal outcomes and efficiencies,
- Lead on engaging with KCC services to ensure the Infrastructure service and assets meets their future needs,
- Analysing and evaluating the performance of services / assets aligning them with the requirements of the Council,
- Driving portfolio estate and service transformations delivering efficiencies and effective outcomes in line with KCC's strategies,
- Managing the Asset Assistants, supporting with the professional development of their performance, ensuring they are capable of providing a high quality service
The successful candidate will have management experience in a similar or relevant area, and a proven track record in change management, innovation, and modernisation of services and estates. You will be comfortable communicating with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders with strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills, preferably with a project management background.
At Kent County Council, we value bravery, curiosity, compassion, and responsibility. We are committed to building a culture that is flexible, agile, curious, compassionate, inclusive, empowering, and externally focused. If you share these values and are passionate about improving the lives of residents in Kent, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Interviews will be held in person in Maidstone w/c 23rd September.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Contact Details
For more information about the role, please contact:
Rebecca Anderson - Head of Business Information, Strategy and Assurance:
03000 417731
About the Company
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.