AddressHead of Post 16 - Skills and Employability
Permanent
Grade 7 - £62,986 - £81,154 Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Working 36.5 hours per week
Our Children and Families leadership team is moving at pace, and we have created a new post that will significantly increase our ability to make a difference to Birmingham’s children and young people. This is your opportunity to help us to continue to develop strong relationships of trust and confidence across our City – relationships which tap into and build upon Birmingham’s outstanding community spirit. We are proud of our schools and colleges and want to increase our leadership capacity to work better in partnership to ensure our children and young people thrive in their educational settings.
Birmingham is attracting much publicity right now and we are keen to ensure continued service delivery to our citizens and successful decision-making – that’s why we need people like you to join us to foster and ensure the delivery of essential frontline roles that benefit the lives of children and young people. Great councils need great leaders and our quest to deliver essential services to our citizens means that we want to hear about your strengths, skills, and experience and how you’ll contribute to our improvement journey.
The Role
We are looking for a highly motivated senior leader with extensive experience of partnership working and managing resources to join us as Head of Post 16, Skills & Employability. You will lead a coordinated range of activity to ensure that the Council achieves its strategic aims and delivers its statutory duties with respect to employability and skills for young people Post 16.
You will take a lead strategic responsibility for developing our Post 16 partner network and manage a a portfolio of services that includes 14-19 participation, 14–29 Progression Pathway for young people with Special Educational Needs along with youth Skills and Employability services.
We have a thriving Post 16 sector in Birmingham, with experienced education leaders who want to work with us to tackle the high youth unemployment rates in our city and ensure that our young people can access the great opportunities that new business investment is bringing to Birmingham.
You must have extensive leadership and management of people in public or private sector. You should thrive in a multi-functional and multi-service delivery environment and have good experience of developing and maintaining positive professional relationships to ensure collaboration across teams, service areas and external stakeholders. You should have experience of strong financial management, and managing transformation of services.
We are leading a new relationship with our schools and colleges, developing an Inclusive City with our young people at the heart of the council’s business. If you are looking to make a positive difference, then we would like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Helen Price (helen.price@birmingham.gov.uk)
You must upload a Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification. If you do not attach your Supporting Statement, your application will not be considered. Please do not attach CVs as we do not accept them.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.
Closing date 20 February 2024 at 23.59
Ref: BCC1893
We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken
Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.
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