The role
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:
The Council is participating in the Safety Valve Intervention Programme, which is a major programme put in place to support Local Authorities to reduce the level of expenditure on services provided to children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), with a particular focus on managing the Dedicated School Grant (DSG) deficit.
The Strategic Programme Lead is a critical member of the Education Leadership Team accountable for the development of and successful delivery of the council’s transformation and improvement programmes; focusing on Safety Valve Delivery Programme, including the DSG Management Plan aimed at eliminating the DSG deficit as well as establishing innovative and strategic solutions that will advance outcomes for children and young people.
The role holds key responsibility for ensuring robust programme management across all areas, overseeing effective and timely monitoring against delivery to time, budget and quality. It is responsible for providing programming, governance, resource management and financial expertise for areas including SEND; project and programme planning; options and appraisals; financial appraisal and evaluation.
About you:
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced strategic lead to help set up and lead on the Safety Valve Delivery Programme. You will have strong previous experience in managing strategic projects and programmes relating to Education, Resource Management and Service Improvement. You will need a relevant degree or post graduate qualification, hold programme management qualifications and have excellent financial modelling, business case skills and the ability to manage programme budgets.
You will also have proven ability to empower and motivate staff and to build and contribute to effective teams and relationships particularly with partners. Experience of working successfully at a senior level in a complex, multi-disciplinary organisation, demonstrating an ability to contribute to corporate and strategic goals is needed. The role also requires you to foster a culture of learning and to maintain a capable and high performing workforce.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 33 days basic annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details:
This post attracts an additional financial JNC benefits package of £3,503 per annum (pro-rata, April-March).
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Nina Dohel, Director of Education at Nina.Dohel@southwark.gov.uk
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: 12/04/2023 at 23:59
Shortlisting date: 14/04/2023
Stakeholder Panel: 24/04/2023
Interview Date: 24/04/2023
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 programme. 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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