• Working with the Chief Executive, other Directors and Board of Trustees to lead SignHealth’s governance processes, enabling and empowering the organisation to make good decisions that follow the rules and laws governing charity behaviour and performance. • Designing, developing and leading the organisation’s processes for strategy development and delivery, business planning, performance management, project management, procurement, customer insight, policy, risk management, data protection and insurance.• Ensuring that the charity is compliant with Charity Commission and other regulatory requirements, including the coordination and drafting of the trustees’ annual report and other returns to regulators.• Working with the Director of Communications and Fundraising and in light of best practice in the sector, supporting the development of significantly increased user-involvement as part of SignHealth’s governance and strategy development.

• Defining, developing and delivering corporate (LGSS, its partners and customers) projects that are large scale (>£250k) and/or complex and/or have a high level of risk attached. • Providing senior leadership and process redesign expertise. Accountable for the planning, co-ordination, facilitation and monitoring of change projects; developing capacity and capability to embed service improvement tools and techniques supporting the continuous modernisation and redesign of traditional services across LGSS, its partners and customers.

Senior role on the leadership team holding a portfolio of responsibilities working alongside the Director and other senior leaders: - Responsibility for CAFOD's governance processes ensuring CAFOD (International NGO) is accountable to the Board of Trustees, to partners and the communities we work with globally; - Ensuring the organisation is compliant with the requirements of independent regulators incl. Charities Commission and Companies House; - responsible for coordinating the programme of work that enables effective corporate decision-making and oversight by CAFOD's Leadership;• Ensure oversight of relations with Trustees, who are based across the world, including recruiting and inducting new Trustees, providing support on governance issues and designing/maintaining the formal committee structure.• Leading on high-level cross-organisational projects as required by the Director/Trustees.

• Leading the day to day running of the Policy and Partnerships Department, including responsibility for managing the Department's overall budget, business plan and performance management• Leading the development of the Council's corporate, service and business planning framework, and developing and implementing the Council's approach to performance management and assessment• Providing leadership and oversight of the Council's work on partnerships, community engagement and inclusion including work on localism, economic development and sustainability, working across Council departments and with partners to mainstream the principles into policies, strategies and decision making. • Leading the development of the Council's pioneering approach to health, working across Council departments and with partners and acting as Lead Officer for the St Albans District Health and Wellbeing Partnership• Co-ordinating ad hoc high risk corporate projects as directed by the Chief Executive and the senior management team• Leading the Council's approach to strategy, policy development and programme/project management, and developing an 'internal consultancy' model to ensure support to other Council teams to deliver improvements to service delivery

• Overall leadership of service area covering Policy and Performance (including performance management, governance, corporate consultations and customer services), Partnerships (including community safety, voluntary sector grants and community engagement), Communications and Elections. • Strategic planning to devise, develop and implement the priorities and vision for SCDC. Responsible for designing Corporate Plan, Sustainable Community Strategy, and other Council wide strategic plans.• High level of project management. • Lead officer representing SCDC on a broad spectrum of partnerships, e.g. Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, Localism Steering Group.

• Managing the Policy and Performance Group consisting of performance, policy, community intelligence, consultations, equality & diversity and complaints teams.• Responsible for co-ordinating responses to Government inspections, Value for Money, efficiency and performance management throughout the organisation.