Surrey County Council - Head of Strategy & Planning

Person Specification

Education, training and work qualifications • Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or with a relevant professional or management qualification at post-graduate level, or equivalent experience. • Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal development in a relevant professional area. Knowledge • Excellent insight into how a portfolio strategy will influence the wider services to be delivered by a Land and Property function. • Structure and content of an HMT compliant business case. • Up-to-date professional knowledge of the key areas relevant to the role. • Knowledge and demonstrable understanding of transformation and culture change.

Skills and abilities

• Ability to think strategically with appropriate level of detailed analysis to plan and execute. • Excellent analytical thinker, with the ability to apply a significant degree of evaluative judgement and innovative thinking to arrive at conclusions, sometimes with ‘no right answers’. • Ability to persuade, negotiate and influence at all levels. • Ability to lead and manage staff to give their best, promoting confidence and trust and effective engagement across services. • Ability to apply discretion and initiative in dealing with complex issues. • Commitment to Surrey County Council’s values, and behaviours and equal opportunity policies, with an ability to demonstrate personal leadership on the importance of diversity. • Enthusiastic and energetic, and prepared to see things through and take accountability. • Ability to balance policy development with effective operational management. • Ability to translate ideas into action, with resilience, tenacity and focus to secure tangible and measurable execution at pace.

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