Essential Skills Qualifications, Accreditation & Registration

No specific qualifications are essential but experience and skills relevant to senior management, commissioning and contract management are required:
Specifically:

• Senior management experience in a related or a comparable environment.
• Experience and skills in relation to programme, contract or performance management, and/or service development and commissioning at a senior level.
• Ability to make decisions about risks and issues arising from audit and assurance activity and managing these effectively and sensitively across organisational boundaries and in line with political and economic considerations.
• Knowledge and appreciation of contract management requirements, and an understanding of the challenges involved in managing and assuring delivery of large complicated commercial contracts.
• Experience and skills in leading and managing in a complex change management context.
• Effective project and programme management experience and skills.
• Effective high quality skills to lead and manage staff to achieve challenging objectives.
• Demonstrate sound judgement, with the ability to build effective working relationships, and to influence and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level in a complex and multi-layered delivery landscape.
• Ability to employ advanced interpersonal skills in negotiation, dealing with challenges and demonstrating resilience.

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions.  The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future.

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 Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.

Diversity and Inclusion Vision:  Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities.