Selection Criteria
- Experience of leading, developing and implementing a strategy, planning and governance capability and professionalism within an organisation, delivering clear and measurable organisational benefits including enabling better data driven decision making, preferably in the public sector or a regulated industry.
- Evidence of the ability to build a Strategy, Planning and Governance function of relevant scale and complexity; building, leading and continuously developing high performance teams both within Strategy functions and supporting the development of others across the organization.
- A successful track record of planning and leading high profile strategic projects which develop or review strategies or services, evidence of the ability to deliver outcomes in a challenging and demanding (eg policing) environment and experience of overseeing the delivery and performance of corporate enabling functions including those which are reliant on various funding streams.
- Evidence of strong communication skills, both verbally and written, with the ability to convey technical and complex information to a broad range of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and to ensure engagement and understanding across the organization.
- Able to build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders within the Police force, the Corporation and wider stakeholder organisations, through a combination of excellent interpersonal skills, business judgement and a highly collaborative approach.
- Demonstrable flexibility, innovation and customer service orientation on both a proactive and reactive basis. Able to demonstrate active listening and subsequent flexibility in ideas and approach.