• Provide specialist guidance and advice in the development of strategies for flood risk management (FRM) and environmental infrastructure and alignment with the Council’s interests and other major strategies.• The setting, delivery and challenging of key Council strategy and policy initiatives in relation to FRM and environmental infrastructure. Ensure compliance with appropriate policy governance frameworks and relevant legislation, alongside assessing the compliance of the partner with the provisions of the contract. • To ensure the Councils responsibilities as a Lead Local Flood Authority are discharged & provide strategic programme management and budgetary oversight of FRM and environmental infrastructure. Secure government funding, and enable other investment to effectively deliver FRM and environmental infrastructure.• Proactively identify, manage and address risks, opportunities and interdependencies across the organisation • Identifying policy developments and best practice and share and implement as appropriate.• Network with other authorities, other departments, government agencies and other stakeholders to identify best practice, synergies, and opportunities for joint working.• Collation, interpretation and analysis of intelligence and data in relation to policy and strategy. In particular to review international, national and regional policy advice documents & policies/strategies of relevant Government agencies & the partner on the implications of these for delivery of the relevant services.• To liaise with the partner in collating complaints about service and remedial measures that have been taken, and to ensure the quality of all communications relating to highways and transport services.• To alert the organisation & partner to emerging drivers, influences that may impact on future strategic plans and support the delivery of priority outcomes.

- Provide specialist guidance and advice across the Council in relation to policy and strategy. - Responsibility for setting, maintaining and challenging key policies and strategies within the council.- The delivery of key Council strategy and policy initiatives- Ensure compliance with appropriate policy governance frameworks and relevant legislation- Monitor and challenge business plans to ensure alignment and compliance to the council’s policy and strategy framework- Identifying policy developments and best practice and share and implement as appropriate.- Collation, interpretation and analysis of intelligence and data in relation to policy and strategy.- To alert the organisation to emerging drivers and influences that may impact on future council strategic plans and support the delivery of priority outcomes. - To effectively manage relationships with all directorates and officers engaged in related policy and strategy development. - Proactively identify, manage and address risks, opportunities and interdependencies across the organisation and provide appropriate challenge.

 Strategic planning & implementation on diverse and complex service & cross cutting issues. Work Planning & Implementation on specific , clearly defined operational activities Delivering services An abundance of face to face , day to day people issues from staff and customers Managing , decision making , problem solving & resolving single clearly defined service issues Leading & developing an integrated team  Operational Budget

• Provide policy expertise and advice to an assigned Directorate including:• Influencing strategic direction to ensure effective service delivery through the identification and securing of appropriate resources to develop and deliver key projects.• Maintaining direct links between corporate priorities and the Community Strategy and the service planning within assigned Directorates.• Identifying the implications of policy developments at national and international levels that may impact on present and future service delivery and advise on how to influence those developments through lobbying.• Developing options around policy implications and presenting these in reports and presentations to members and senior officers.

• Develop and ensure the delivery of short to medium term social care projects.• To manage specific projects using project management tools in partnership with operational services, health and social care partners and voluntary organisations for all client groups.• To drive change through a project management approach and ensure that they are implemented in accordance with Corporate and Government Priorities.• Develop and draft new policies, procedures and guidance, which ensure that the Directorate fulfils its statutory and community responsibilities and review and update existing policies, procedures and practice guidelines. Also advising on trends and areas of concern as well as prepare reports and make recommendations for change.• To implement a range of customer care initiatives including participation, workshops, user forums to ensure a person centred approach and outcome orientated approach to service delivery.• Development of effective quality assurance systems, which leads to improvement in performance.• To ensure effective delivery of equality and diversity across the Directorate in line with the Equality Standards for Local Government ensuring the promotion of Equality and Diversity principles in all activities.• Cascade emerging developments and work with senior managers to identify and address delivery implications, by identifying and agreeing feedback that will help to shape response and delivery of policy.• To maximise external financial resources available to the Council and to lead and co-ordinate through partnership funding, initiating research to target resources towards community needs and formalisation of bids.

- Advising and working with Senior Managers on the understanding of Performance Management and its role within business planning processes and ensuring that the Community Care Directorate knows how to effectively manage the performance of itself. - Understanding, optimising, aligning of actions and decision - making at all levels to ensure that it meets its objectives. This is adhering to the Corporate Performance Planning processes as well as those within the Community Care Directorate by the completion of Critical Issue Reporting, Attendance at Performance Clinics as well as supporting moves towards a performance management framework for decision making, and not just merely focusing on performance monitoring, although this forms part of performance management within the Directorate.

I have extensive experience of implementing management information systems including the implementation of upgrades to Open Housing Management System (OHMS) through planning and developing testing programmes for new releases, as well as identifying that faults and problems and that they are dealt with in the appropriate manner in the required timescales. This included in 2004 the implementation of SWIFT (Social Services Client Database) within Community Care with specific responsibilities as Systems Administrator for Adult Social Care to identifying potential problems with the systems/processes being used by operational service to collate performance data and recommend solutions for change, ensuring they meet Audit Commission and Internal Audit requirements and production of action plans for continuous monitoring of actions identified in statistical returns and reporting on non- compliance as appropriate (e.g. DIS). Undertake the appropriate use of SWIFT by all staff to produce accurate data for the production of performance information and the effective deployment of the SWIFT Development Officer and monitor and negotiate with Head of Central IT on all aspects of service level agreements and systems admin role.

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Represented students on the courseboard in respect of the course content - accreditation of degrees and setting up educational visits including field trips to Newcastle, Glasgow, Belfast, Londonderry and Dublin.