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Interim Service Director (Highways & Transport) in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Location Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Salary Up to \xc2\xa3480 per day

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SERVICE DIRECTOR (HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORT) - CAMBRIDGESHIRE - 12 MONTH CONTRACT - UP TO \xc2\xa3480/DAY INSIDE IR35

ARM are working with a public sector organisation in Cambridgeshire to help find an Interim Service Director for the Highways & Transport division. This is a contract role Inside IR35 for an initial period of circa 12 months.

About You:
Significant and successful experience of:

• Working at a senior level within a large and complex organisation with comparable scope, responsibilities, budget, and resources.
• Providing balanced strategic advice and guidance in a political setting.
• Leading the delivery of public services with competing priorities and demands often outside of the Council\'s direct control.
• Leading transformational change and creating innovative service models, particularly in response to the demands of an organisation that is undergoing a radical transformation and modernisation.
• Delivering complex projects on time and within budget and outcomes.
• Leading and contributing to strategic decision making, resource allocation and to policy formulation and delivery, adopting a problem-solving culture.
• Delivering creative and innovative solutions to improve the use of resources and achieve value for money across an organisation.
• Establishing a strong performance culture including effective performance measures, evaluation of service quality and the improvement of service delivery to achieve the Council\'s objectives
• Leading, managing and developing employees to sustain high levels of service delivery, recognising and developing talent.
• Developing and nurturing positive and constructive working relationships with a wide range of customers, stakeholders and partners, maintaining a positive personal and organisational profile.
• Extensive experience of successfully working at a senior role across a number of highway and transport functions, in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Experience of successfully managing large, multi-faceted infrastructure proposals and projects within a complex, political, multi-discipline, multicultural environment
• Practical experience of working in customer-facing service operations, service improvement programmes and transport and highways
• Significant experience of influencing strategic policy direction and delivering major transport and highway projects within large complex organisations.
• Strong financial and budgetary management awareness and experience with the ability to manage finance and wider resources.
• Evidence of successful mult-agency and partnership working with a wide range of stakeholders.

What you will be doing:
You will be accountable for the leadership, delivery and commissioning of all highways and transport responsibilities, including:

• Ensuring effective delivery of all operational services in a customer focused manner
• Providing visible and engaging leadership for the service ensuring that an effective workplace culture is embedded that focuses on effective performance and continuous improvement
• Developing and maintaining effective partnership arrangements particularly with the Cambridgeshire and Peterbrough Combined Authority, the Greater Cambridge Partnership, district councils, parish councils and national agencies
• Providing effective oversight and management for the commissioning, procurement and contract management of all commercial activity undertaken by the service
• Developing and implementing the delivery of highways and transport strategies relating to the Council
• Ensuring that the Council fulfils its statutory duties relating to highways and transport
• Providing effective, timely and impartial advice to elected members and ensuring that effective decisions relating to highways and transport are made within the council\'s democratic processes

This is a full time contract role, on an initial 12 month basis, paying up to \xc2\xa3480/day Inside IR35

For this role, you must already be eligible to work in the UK without restriction.

For more information on this position, please contact Sam Derham at ARM on 02392458029 or email your CV and covering letter .

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

Job reference 121007_1694015635

Date posted 06 September 2023

Sector Transportation and Infrastructure

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