.Essential Criteria:

Essential-Experience:

• Extensive experience of working in a senior role within a strategic planning environment.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and the ability to ensure strategy is aligned to maximising opportunities and delivery.
• Proven ability to analyse, interpret, present and clearly communicate complex briefings to colleagues at all levels in an organisation through production of concise and insightful briefing notes and papers.
• A track record of achievement in the drafting and implementation of strategy and policy in a large and complex organisation.
• Evidence of devising, developing and delivering business planning activities.
• Possess broad administrative experience including leading a significant business unit.

Essential-Knowledge:

• Ability to understand and interpret organisational policies, procedures and working practices in all areas of the business and any issues which may influence the development of longer-term strategies.

Desirable Criteria:

Desirable-Experience

• Experience of working in a senior strategic planning role within the policing/law enforcement sector.
• Highly developed knowledge of public sector working.
• An in depth and comprehensive understanding of the policing sector.
• Knowledge of data sources relevant to policing and how data is interpreted to inform publications, reports and publicly available performance indicators.

Skills:

Essential:

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills. The ability to engage, influence, understand and partner senior members of the Executive team.
• Proactively, positively and confidently managing and meeting expectations and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong, strategic leadership and management skills with a proven capability to engage and motivate colleagues as well as a proven aptitude in enabling and driving performance.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills; with an ability to clearly communicate complex information in written and oral briefings.

Desirable:

• Experience of a senior role in the public sector
• Experience of a senior role in policing.

For full details on the role, please request copy of the role profile from our careers team on careers@westmidlands.police.uk

Personal attributes:

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in relevant discipline
• Able to think strategically at a business wide level.
• A creative and confident thinker, who will develop creative solutions to overcome challenge.
• Strong commitment to the goals, vision and delivery of the Force.
• Proactive, customer focus with the ability to identify and develop advantageous partnership and networking opportunities.
• Personal dynamism demonstrating drive, innovation and initiative.
• Ability to work and respond within challenging timeframes, adopting a flexible and positive approach to ensure outcomes are effectively delivered.
• Commitment to personal and professional development of self and team.
• Evidence of the aptitude to develop effective internal and external collaborative relationships.
• Ability to identify, analyse and exploit opportunities to maximise how and what the Force delivers, through the application of highly specialised expertise and knowledge, whilst maintaining sensitivity to the strategic, financial and operational implications of the outcomes of the planning process or specific projects. 

Hours & Location:

Location for the role will normally be at Lloyd House, Police headquarters. Standard contractual hours of 36.5 hours. Agile/flexible working is available.

Vetting:

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical:

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Interviews:

Interviews are planned for W/C 25th 2022 

Contact:

If you have any questions in relation to the role, please contact Michelle Painter, michelle.painter@westmidlands.police.uk

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview. 

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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