About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
Do you have what it takes to create meaningful change in the council?
Would you like to be part of a team focussed on improving race equality for staff?
The council has embarked on an ambitious programme, entitled Southwark Stands Together, to improve race equality within it workforce and to ensure race equality is embedded in its work with citizens.
We are developing a Project Management Office (PMO) function to drive the Workforce strand of the Southwark StandsTogether programme. The PMO will create strategies to support the effective planning, monitoring and delivery of corporate and departmental Workforce projects.
You will be expected to maximise the support we can provide to departmental workstream leads by promoting joined-up working, providing them with access to subject matter experts and exploiting synergies with other council-wide initiatives.
You will design and deliver a range of engagement activities to provide staff with opportunities to shape the future of race equality in the council.
About You:
You will:
- Have a proven track record of planning and leading projects, inspiring and supporting others and managing stakeholders, clients and team members;
- Be comfortable using data and numbers to understand problems and tell stories;
- Have experience of producing project management protocols, initiation documents and programme updates;
-Have experience of project delivery through its life cycle from inception, design and delivery to business as usual;
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Have a full understanding of the barriers to achieving race equality consistently across an organisation and an understanding of the strategies that can be adopted to improve performance.
Additional salary details
We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 17 February 2023
Interview date: 20 February 2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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