Dudley Council is seeking an outstanding senior leader to direct our Corporate Change & Improvement function at a critical point in our improvement and transformation journey. This is a high‑impact corporate role with significant visibility across Corporate Management Team, elected members and external partners. You will lead the PMO and Business Operations & Support services, embedding strong governance, assurance and performance disciplines that safeguard delivery of the Council's Improvement Plan and wider transformation portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the full corporate portfolio—ensuring strategic alignment, prioritisation, inspection readiness and measurable benefits realisation.
- Strengthen governance and assurance—embedding proportionate, transparent frameworks that ensure statutory compliance, effective risk management and organisational resilience.
- Lead portfolio performance and financial oversight—delivering consolidated reporting, milestone tracking, risk escalation and benefits management at corporate level.
- Align resources to priorities—co‑ordinating financial, people and digital capacity across a complex and evolving change landscape.
- Drive process and systems optimisation—modernising operating models, embedding standard operating procedures and ensuring a clear "single source of truth."
- Oversee corporate change control and organisational design—ensuring transformation is impact‑assessed, governed and sustainably embedded.
- Champion a high‑performance culture—building capability within the PMO and change function and embedding continuous improvement disciplines.
Qualifications
- Significant experience operating at senior corporate level within local government or a complex public sector environment.
- A strong track record of leading improvement portfolios in politically sensitive, multi‑agency contexts.
- Deep expertise in governance, assurance, performance management and statutory compliance.
- Experience supporting inspection readiness and organisational recovery or improvement journeys.
- The credibility and judgement to influence senior officers, elected members and external stakeholders.
- A passion for strengthening accountability, digital maturity and sustainable organisational performance.
- Capability to combine strategic clarity with operational execution, seeing the whole system while driving disciplined execution.
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