Steve Ford

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Corporate Director for Strategy, Performance and Sustainability @ Dorset Council UK
Helston, GB
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Helston, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Steve Ford

Experienced senior leader, with over 18 years of experience in local government, with many corporate, strategy, policy and change roles in large unitary authorities. I also have a strong track record in climate and environmental delivery. I am a strong people manager, with a long track record of getting the best out of colleagues and services matched against strategic ambitions. I am a systems thinker, working across sectors to drive shared ambitions in a range of policy and strategy goals. Specialties: Strategy, policy, performance management, change and transformation, climate change, carbon mitigation, environmental management, programme and project management and economic strategy. I am Corporate Director for Strategy, Performance and Sustainability, with responsibility for a wide portfolio of services including strategy and policy, organisational development, climate, data and performance.

Steve Ford's Current Company Details
Dorset Council UK

Dorset Council Uk

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Corporate Director for Strategy, Performance and Sustainability
Helston, GB
Website:
dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
Employees:
475
Steve Ford Work Experience Details
  • Dorset Council Uk
    Corporate Director For Strategy, Performance And Sustainability
    Dorset Council Uk
    Helston, Gb
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  • Dorset Council Uk
    Corporate Director For Strategy, Performance And Sustainability
    Dorset Council Uk Jan 2024 - Present
    Dorset, England, United Kingdom
    Permanent corporate director with responsibility for a wide range of services, including strategy, policy, OD, performance and change. This service frames and shapes the strategic direction of travel for Dorset Council alongside the performance and people agendas that are so crucial to making us a great place to work and delivering for our residents. The communications function also sits in this portfolio, along with our response to the climate emergency.
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  • Dorset Council Uk
    Corporate Director For Transformation, Innovation, Digital And Climate
    Dorset Council Uk Mar 2023 - Jan 2024
    Dorset, England, United Kingdom
    Interim corporate director with responsibility for a wide range of services, including strategy, policy, OD, performance, digital and transformation and change. This service frames and shapes the strategic direction of travel for Dorset Council, the transformation required to deliver a resilient council and the underpinning digital, performance and people agendas that are so crucial to making us a great place to work and delivering for our residents.
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  • Dorset Council Uk
    Corporate Director For Climate And Ecological Sustainabilty
    Dorset Council Uk May 2022 - Mar 2023
    Dorset, England, United Kingdom
    Corporate director for climate and ecological sustainability, with responsibility for delivering on the decarbonisation and environmental aspirations of Dorset Council. This involves decarbonising the council’s operations, driving systems leadership across Dorset and better aligning the climate and ecological emergencies alongside adaptation.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Head Of Environmental Growth, Climate Change And Heritage
    Cornwall Council Jan 2020 - May 2022
    Truro, United Kingdom
    Head of service for environmental strategy, climate change and heritage, setting the strategic direction for the council’s climate change action plan as well as the wider environmental growth and nature recovery strategies. I also managed our coastal and flood risk management teams (climate adaptation) and the council’s heritage team, aligning all of this activity through the lens of landscape management, nature recovery, decarbonisation and adaptation.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Head Of Strategy And Delivery
    Cornwall Council Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
    Truro, United Kingdom
    Head of service responsible for the delivery of strategy, policy, performance, intelligence and the devolution deal for Cornwall at Cornwall Council. This role requires a balanced skills set matching an understanding of strategic drivers to delivery challenges on the ground, ensuring that council priorities are translated into recognisable work programmes. With responsibility for 30 members of staff, my role is key to ensuring that the Council is continually improving its processes and delivers strong leadership in areas such as preparing for Brexit, and I am now also leading the delivery of the council’s climate change action plan.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Head Of Devolution - Cornwall Council
    Cornwall Council May 2016 - Mar 2018
    Truro, United Kingdom
    I was the lead officer for the Cornwall Deal, the first non-metropolitan devolution deal in the UK. This role included managing 9 devolution work streams including transport, health, energy, environment and public estate. The devolution deal offers Cornwall an opportunity to re-shape its public services to become not only more sustainable but also more responsive. This corporate role also included significant budget management, a strong relationship with Whitehall departments and wider engagement and partnership working to pool resources and develop new asks of government for future devolution.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Future Economy Programme Lead
    Cornwall Council Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
    Cornwall
    I previously managed the Future Economy strand of the EU strategic investment framework and additional projects that collectively form part of Cornwall and the Isles of Scillies approach to developing nascent technologies that it has a USP in. This programme level approach involved developing competitive calls for the European funding allocation to a value of over £100m including both the smart specialisation areas (digital economy, e-health, agri-tech, marine tech and space and aerospace) and low carbon technologies. This programme level approach ensured that the delivery of emerging technologies was managed in a coordinated, meaningful and measurable way. The ultimate aim of this programme was to provide strategic leadership that enabled Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to exploit high value, knowledge based sectors that will lead to significant GVA growth and a re-profiling of the local economy. This role worked closely with the Local Enterprise Partnership and a number of strategic boards.As recognition of the prioneering work that was undertaken, the team won two national awards in 2015; the APSE 'Best Renewable/Energy Efficiency Initiative' and the Community Energy England 'Local Authority Partner' award. Additionally, the team also won the RegenSW Green Energy award for the Most Proactive Public Sector Body in November 2015.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Green Cornwall Programme Lead
    Cornwall Council Jun 2011 - Dec 2014
    Cornwall
    I managed the green Cornwall programme for Cornwall council, looking at developing renewable energy technologies, carbon reduction strategies and developing the framework for low carbon job creation. This role also involved the direct management of an £10.5m budget, and a wider programme budget of £40m. I oversaw many firsts for Cornwall, including the Council's involvement in collective energy switching (nearly 3000 households switched) the first endorsement process for the green deal bringing in £50m pounds worth of investment and creating and supporting 140 jobs that treated over 2000 homes, developed a revolving loan fund for community renewable energy projects that delivered 4 major community projects that are up and running and provided oversight to the Council's carbon reduction programme. I also managed a successful bid for one of the most comprehensive rural electric vehicle infrastructure networks in Europe (38 chargepoints across Cornwall and Devon), and had the strategic client role for major economic initiatives linked to the development of offshore renewable, smart and geothermal technologies. The impact of the programme has been significant and it has received national recognition and awards for its achievements. The total value of these projects was in excess of £400m.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Local Enterprise Partnership Manager
    Cornwall Council Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
    Economic development manager in charge of developing the local enterprise partnership for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly after successfully writing the bid to Government.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Economic Strategy Manager
    Cornwall Council Feb 2010 - Aug 2010
    In charge of developing economic strategy and policy for Cornwall Council. In this role I managed around 20 officers charged with policy development, overseeing the European convergence programme, skills development, economic intelligence and international collaborative projects.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Community Network Manager
    Cornwall Council Dec 2008 - Jan 2010
    I oversaw and supported the community development, engagement and consultation aspects of the council's work in the Truro and Roseland area. This role included promoting the concept of localism, incorporating better lines of communication with communities, parish and town councils, the VCS and individuals, and supporting the role of unitary councilors in carrying out their representative role. It also involved pioneering work on participatory budgeting in Cornwall that was nationally recognised.
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  • Cornwall County Council
    Senior Parish Liaison Officer
    Cornwall County Council Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
    I lead a team of officers at Cornwall County Council who were long looking at redesigning the service delivery mechanisms of the council to include more local involvement including both parish and town councils and community groups.
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  • Cornwall Council
    Ngdp Graduate - Working In One Cornwall Team
    Cornwall Council Apr 2006 - Dec 2007
    Cornwall
    Tasked with being part of the team to develop the unitary bid, I co-authored the final bid and also led on a number of the new elements pertaining to a new approach to localism. This role was a multi-faceted change role, involving partner and public liaison, research, negotiation and institutional design. While doing this role I also completed my NGDP obligations. The final result was that Cornwall went for unitary status, and many of the localism elements I worked on were enacted.
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  • Perkins Slade
    Professional Indemnity Insurance Broker
    Perkins Slade Jun 2005 - Apr 2006
    Professional Indemnity Broker with Perkins Slade Insurance Broker. This role involved dealing with a large portfolio of clients who had a compulsory requirement for professional indemnity insurance, as well as open-market clients. I was in charge of dealing with the needs of over 500 members of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, as well as having being instrumental in setting-up schemes of insurance for both the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Trading Standards Institute. This position was a very client-orientated role given the professional nature of the clients and the exacting standards that they expected.
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  • Worknow
    Director
    Worknow Jun 2002 - Jan 2005
    Co-founder and Director of the Community Employment Initiative (CEI) in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. The CEI was an NGO that sought to facilitate access to the formal job-market for disadvantaged township residents in South Africa, and to assist in skills development. The CEI had official government backing through its involvement with the Expanded Public Works Programme, and in its first year of operation it created over 450 permanent jobs, and over 35,000 ‘work-days’. Other major projects included an affiliation with the SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority), whereby I was personally responsible for implementing full-time training courses for over 500 people, as well as over 250 short-term courses. I was also instrumental in creating a permanent relationship with the government-funded Poverty Alleviation Programme in partnership with Table Mountain National Parks with the creation of over 40 full-time jobs.
  • Insitute For Democracy In South Africa
    Associate Researcher
    Insitute For Democracy In South Africa Mar 2001 - Jun 2002
    Cape Town Area, South Africa
    Volunteer political analyst and researcher for IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South Africa) in Cape Town (an internationally renowned political advocacy N.G.O) writing articles and press releases, as well as acting as a ‘friend of the court’ over constitutional issues. Examples of my responsibilities included writing ‘e-politics’ articles and in one instance assisting in the compilation of a deposition to the High Court pertaining to MPs ‘crossing the floor’. This position involved approaching research into any given topic in an objective manner, as well as disseminating the information in a format that was both balanced and accessible.

Steve Ford Skills

Policy Public Sector Community Engagement Strategy Government Public Policy Economic Development Sustainability Project Management Stakeholder Engagement Local Government Governance Sustainable Development Energy Policy Community Development Renewable Energy Change Management Management Corporate Social Responsibility Environmental Awareness Policy Analysis Report Writing Training Environmental Policy Stakeholder Management Carbon Footprinting Carbon Management Energy Efficiency Sustainable Business Research Politics Institutional Design Energy Urban Regeneration Community Consultation Sustainable Energy Workshop Facilitation Urban Planning Bid Writing Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Management Systems Press Releases Team Leadership Budgets Economics Private Sector Social Enterprise Charities European Union Climate Change

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Steve Ford works for Dorset Council Uk

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Steve Ford's current role is Corporate Director for Strategy, Performance and Sustainability.

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Steve Ford's email address is st****@****.gov.uk

What schools did Steve Ford attend?

Steve Ford attended University Of Warwick - Warwick Business School, University Of Birmingham, University Of Cape Town, University Of Exeter, University Of Plymouth.

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Steve Ford has interest in Politics, Environment, Economic Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation.

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Steve Ford has skills like Policy, Public Sector, Community Engagement, Strategy, Government, Public Policy, Economic Development, Sustainability, Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Local Government, Governance.

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Steve Ford's colleagues are Lucie Fusade, Sarah Collins, Natalie Wakefield, Nicola Mason, Corry Provan, Bob Lockard, Susan Hetherington.

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