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Job title	Chief Executive
Salary grade	HAY800EXEC

1. Key purpose of job

• To work with the Leader of the Council, the Cabinet, Councillors and officers to:
• Be Council’s statutory Head of Paid Service as defined in the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
• Act as the Council’s principal advisor, assisting and advising the Leader and Cabinet and Councillors both individually and collectively, to determine policy and strategy which reflect the objectives and priorities of the Council.
• Provide visionary strategic and corporate leadership to ensure that Torbay Council establishes and sustains excellent delivery of key priorities, taking personal responsibility on all aspects of the Council’s services to residents, businesses and visitors, while empowering others to do the same.
• Lead and inspire our senior management team and staff, providing high visibility leadership to create an innovative culture, which challenge and change the way the Council works to ensure an innovative and agile ‘can-do’ culture, where staff excel and achieve the highest possible outcomes.
• Lead on whole Council shape and structure, ensuring the organisation and services are fit for the future in terms of its workforce, finances and culture and has capacity and capability to deliver effectively for residents, businesses, stakeholders and particularly the most vulnerable in our communities.
• Ensure effective corporate governance systems and policies are embedded throughout the Council to manage performance, risk, health and safety, financial resources, civil emergencies, and business continuity.
• To promote good internal and external relationships and lead the Council’s external engagement with key strategic stakeholders, including those from the statutory, business and voluntary sectors at district, county, regional and national level.
• To plan and co-ordinate the delivery of the Council’s objectives and services working with and through voluntary, public and private sector stakeholders where appropriate to ensure the overall implementation of the Council's policy.
• Empower our communities, continuing the journey to engage and develop partnerships which enables them to positively engage with shared challenges and opportunities.
• Set challenging and ambitious targets, evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of all services, deliver efficiency and maximise use of technology to achieve our objectives.
• Lead the Council’s response to Public Health priorities ensuring the development and delivery of strong social, economic and environmental plans.
• Oversee the success of the Council’s associated and wholly owned companies, ensuring that they deliver effective outcomes which are aligned to the Council’s priorities.

2. Anticipated outcomes of post

• To act as principal advisor to the Leader of the Council, the Cabinet, Councillors and the Council and ensure they receive quality and timely information and advice to help them develop corporate policies and translate political priorities into positive actions.
• With the Leader of the Council, the Cabinet and Councillors, to develop a clear vision and identify key strategic issues in order to drive forward the Council’s agenda for innovation, change and development.
• To advise the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet, Councillors and the council, on the preparation, review and delivery of the council’s business and financial strategies.
• Manage the interface between policy making role of elected members and the role of officers to ensure that the strategic aims of the Council are clear and reflect the Council's core values.
• Undertake the strategic management of the authority, ensuring that the core values and strategic issues are recognised and responded to throughout the whole organisation.
• To manage the postholders responsible for the discharge of a range of functions, including:
  • the statutory Section 151 Officer
  • the statutory Monitoring Officer
  • the statutory Director of Children’s Services
  • the statutory Director of Adult Social Services
  • the statutory Director of Public Health
  • the Director of Place
  • the Director of Corporate Services
• To provide dynamic strategic leadership to the Council’s Senior Leadership Team in order to secure its effectiveness in:
  • Strategic policy development and co-ordination;
  • Financial planning and management of all resources;
  • Performance management of the Council and the delivery of integrated customer-focused services;
  • Governance with robust systems and processes underpinned by probity and integrity.
  • External relationships and partnerships;
  • Engagement and communications;
  • Implementation of service changes in order to meet financial objectives
• To ensure, in consultation with the Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer, that legal, financial, procedural and other provisions governing the affairs of the Council, are properly observed and that appropriate action is taken to protect the best interests of the Council.
• In conjunction with the Section 151 Officer, to assist the Leader of the Council and the Cabinet in working within the budget set by the Council and to develop the budget for approval by Council.
• To ensure that the culture of the organisation supports a commitment to high standards of governance.
• To ensure that risks associated with Council services as a whole are effectively managed and mitigated effectively, including the risk of fraud and corruption.
• To ensure effective engagement, consultation and communication with the public and partners on the relevant aspects of Council services.
• To take an active role in work to deliver the Council’s ambitions for Growth and Inward Investment.
• To ensure that Torbay Council is nationally recognised for innovation and outstanding service delivery, developing relationships with Government departments and agencies to promote Torbay.
• To take the lead with the relevant Director in responding to any failures in service delivery that may be identified either internally or externally.
• To develop effective partnerships with public, private and voluntary sector individuals and organisations in order to ensure the delivery of cost-effective integrated services to the community.
• To ensure, through proactive employment policies and practices, that the Council builds adequate organisational capacity so that the appropriate quality of workforce is effectively recruited, led, remunerated, informed, engaged and consulted, developed and motivated to achieve agreed service objectives and priorities.
• To provide leadership to the Council on equality and diversity issues in order to ensure that services respond to the range of needs in the community and that workforce policies and practices comply with best practice, as well as legislation.
• To establish and develop a high performance, innovative culture through clear assignment of accountabilities, effective processes for objective setting, performance measurement and evaluation so that the organisation continuously learns and achieves sustainable improvements and value for money in service delivery.
• Ensure that the Emergency Plan and Business Continuity Plan is kept up-to-date, exercised and when required is efficiently and effectively implemented.
• To be accountable for the adherence of the organisation to Council policy including the Safeguarding Policy for Children and Adults, for Health and Safety and business continuity and that these policies meet the required statutory duty for unitary authorities.
• As an Employee of Torbay Council all roles are expected to work in a way that ensures vulnerable children and adults are safeguarded and report any safeguarding concerns in accordance with established policies and procedures. The Designated Senior Lead for Safeguarding is the

4. Budgetary/Financial Responsibilities of the post

• Responsibility for the Council’s full budget of circa £115m (net expenditure).

6. Working environment and conditions of the post

• Normal working environment and conditions.

7. Physical demands of the post

• Normal physical demands.

Other Information

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Person Specification

Note for Candidate

All Candidates

The supporting statement on your application form will be used to assess ability to meet the essential requirements of the role, so you should explain how you meet each of the numbered essential requirements within your supporting statement. In a competitive situation, the desirable criteria may be taken into consideration, so you are encouraged to show how you also meet each of the desirable criteria.

Candidates who consider that they have a disability

Reasonable adjustments will be made to the job, job requirements or recruitment process for candidates with a disability.

If you consider yourself to have a disability you should indicate this on your application form, providing any information you would like us to take into account with regard to your disability in order to offer a fair selection interview.

Where ever possible and reasonable we will make adjustments and offer alternatives to help you through the application and selection process.

If you have indicated that you have a disability on your application form you will be guaranteed an interview if you clearly demonstrate in your supporting evidence how you broadly meet the essential requirements of the role.

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Job Title	Chief Executive

Skills and effectiveness

Essential skills and effectiveness

• Leads by example and is visible in doing so, providing staff with a compelling vision, common purpose and clear sense of direction.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and an ability to relate to and win the confidence and trust of members, staff, residents and public and private sector partners.
• Personal conduct, integrity and credibility that, by personal example, commands the confidence of members, managers, staff, local communities, external partners and stakeholders in the governance of the Council.
• An enabler, with the ability to manage a wide range of complex issues and agendas at the same time and drive change through agility, influence and diplomacy.
• Creativity and imagination in seeing new approaches, painting the vision, overcoming obstacles and showing that ambitious goals can be achieved.
• A strong commitment to local democracy, social justice, equality and accountability to the community.
• Politically astute with an ability to operate effectively and sensitively within a political environment and to develop relationships with all members and MPs that command respect, trust and confidence.
• Excellent analytical and numeracy skills with the ability to produce clear reports with realistic options and recommendations.
• Excellent negotiation skills, with evidence of successful multi-partner negotiations including with Government.
• Able to communicate in an effective and compelling manner both within and outside the organisation.
• Is tenacious and resilient, able to work successfully in a high pressure, political environment and manage competing demands and priorities.
• Highly developed networking, advocacy and communication skills with the ability to persuade, influence and form sustainable partnerships for the Council.
• Focuses on the strategic development of current and future capabilities required to take the organisation forward.
• Leads and initiates a feedback culture in which regular, constructive and honest feedback is valued, given and sought from a variety of sources.
• of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post

Desirable skills and effectiveness

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Knowledge

Essential knowledge

• An understanding of the issues and priorities of Local Government and the wider Public Sector.
• Demonstrable knowledge of financial and budget management.
• Working knowledge of organisational and cultural change.

Desirable knowledge

• Knowledge of Local Government decision-making processes, procedures and the legislative framework within which the Council operates.
• Understanding of economic growth and regeneration, including knowledge of 'place-shaping', social and economic investment and how it is achieved in order to positively promote and drive forward the agenda.
• Understanding of the specifics of local government finance and budget management.

Experience and achievements

Essential experience and achievements

• Current and extensive strategic level experience of corporate leadership in a large complex organisation of comparable scale and complexity with substantial staff and budgetary responsibility.
• Extensive experience of developing corporate strategies and policies and putting effective performance arrangements in place to secure their delivery.
• Experience of developing and implementing solutions to major policy issues.
• Experience of leading and managing diverse teams within a multi-functional organisation
• Able to demonstrate a track record of successful transformation (including Digital) and change management, implementing and delivering new delivery models, ways of working, cultural and behavioural change.
• Evidence of personal leadership in the achievement of equal opportunity in both employment and service delivery.
• Experience of managing and developing staff, including the establishment of a positive performance culture that has delivered effective performance and continuous service improvement.
• Experience of successfully managing major projects and delivering large and complex budgets and investments.
• Experience of building productive relationships with external partners, stakeholders and of working across organisational boundaries.
• Able to demonstrate a successful track record of attracting inward investment and working with businesses and partners in order to generate growth and build strong and resilient communities

Desirable experience and achievements

• Experience of optimising income generation and developing commercial services.
• Experience of business process reengineering, project, programme and change management methodologies and their application.
• Experience of using investment appraisal (including capital budgeting) techniques for decision making.
• Experience of working with national and/or international bodies and organisations.
• Experience of working in a political environment, whether in a formal or informal setting.

Qualifications/professional memberships

Essential qualifications/professional memberships

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience

Desirable qualifications/professional memberships

• Relevant professional qualification in a related discipline such as Accountancy, Legal or Social Care.
• Evidence of formal post graduate management development (or equivalent experience)
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Other requirements

Other requirements of the job role

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