Strategy & Policy Lead

Tower Hamlets

£35 per hour (umbrella)

Full Time Contract (3 months)

Novax Recruitment is actively seeking a Strategy & Policy Lead in Tower Hamlets. This is a contract with a scope for extension working full time hours.

The job:

• To lead the provision of Strategy, Improvement, and Transformation (SIT) services ensuring the success of relevant services and a positive contribution to the organisation's strategic goals
• To play a visible and impactful leadership role outside the organisation and with partners with a shared focus on priority outcomes for communities and residents and continual learning and improvement for the organisation
• To provide strategic leadership to and operational management of the specialist teams as an integral part of the Strategy, Improvement and Transformation function as well as business partner for Director of service, Chief Executive, and Members
• To provide expert advice to senior officers, members and partners in policy and strategy, managing risk, designing interventions, solving problems and responding to external frameworks, opportunities, risks and events

The candidate:

• A demonstrable expert understanding of the national and local social and economic context for, and operations of social and public policy related to VCS/Cohesion/Engagement/Consultation
• Expert knowledge in more than one key social and public policy areas including cohesion and integration, equality and inclusion, engagement and consultation, communityand voluntary secto
• Substantial experience of coordinating and managing social and public policy functions, strategic and business planning, equality, scrutiny, partnership, commissioning, research, assessment, performance
• Developed technical skills and abilities in relation to the policy analysis and interpretation that leads to development organisation or borough wide strategic direction setting

Please submit your application via the contact details provided and you will be contacted with further information about this opportunity or email your CV to me directly; or call me on;