Transformation Project Manager Occ615842

Job details

Salary range: £43,421 - £46,464 per annum

Work location: Hybrid with primary location County Hall, Oxford

Hours per week: 37 - we are open to discussions about flexible working

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday 5th May 2024

Interview date: w/c Monday 20th May 2024

What better job motivation could there be than one that makes a difference to a child or young person’s life?

About us

Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We’re seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of ‘daring to do it differently’, as we continue to strive to do better.

Children, Education and Families (CEF) is a directorate of dedicated children’s services professionals faced with continuing increases in demand, costs, and complexity of needs across social care and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

In response, our vision and strategy are to transform services to secure even better outcomes for children and young people and improve financial sustainability.
To achieve this, we have a portfolio of service transformation programmes to shape and deliver, which will enable us, amongst other things, to become increasingly focused on early help and intervention, working more effectively with our local area partners.

Our investment in CEF has created a number of vacancies; we are looking for experienced transformation and change management professionals to join our newly established CEF Transformation Team working to deliver and help shape projects that will make a bigger difference to children, young people, and their parent carers; it’s a really exciting time to join us!

About the role

This is a specialist role, responsible for the successful delivery of priority projects that involve service improvement, change management and continuous improvement. As part of this, you will:

• Lead and manage service improvement projects, across the end-to-end life cycle, from business case and project initiation through the phases and implementation to agreed time, cost, and quality criteria, with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for CYP and financial sustainability of services.

• Work with, and gain commitment from internal clients and stakeholders to an agreed project mandate, objectives and expected measurable outputs for service improvement initiatives, including implementation.

• Provide subject matter expertise, support, and guidance to project proposals, including the most suitable approaches to service improvement, change management and continuous improvement.

• Provide rigour in delivery of service Transformation Projects in accordance with accepted best practice and in align with corporate approaches, the council’s values (Delivering the Future Together) and aspirations (Children’s Oxfordshire Way) to develop new ways of working across all service.

• Line manage a small number of CEF transformation team members.

About you

You will be motivated by making a tangible difference to the lives of children and young people and as a transformation and change management professional in a service design and improvement environment.

You will need to demonstrate a track record of delivering improved service performance including outcomes, operational efficiency, and cost reduction/avoidance.

Experience of working in local government and/or the wider public sector service economy would be desirable, but not essential, as private sector experience will enable us to look at our challenges from another perspective.

Experience of digital service design will be especially useful and desirable, but not essential.

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible working
• Technology to support agile working where role permits
• Up to 33 days holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development

Would you like to know more?

Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria

For an informal discussion about the role please contact - Ian Smart, CEF Programme Director on ian.smart@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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