Service

Group

Corporate Governance

Job Title

Performance, Audit & Risk Manager

Grade

Person

Spec. No.

SELECTION CRITERIA

ESSENTIAL

DESIRABLE

QUALIFICATIONS

Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant professional discipline.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Team Leadership

Developing Others

Empowering Others

Best Value Focus

Working with others

Acting with integrity

Customer Focus

Achieving Results

Continuous Improvement

Being Accountable

Providing and safe and healthy working environment

Able to provide effective leadership and committed to effective employee communication and engagement sound leadership skills

Committed to investing time in coaching and developing people

Able to delegate decision making responsibility and demonstrate trust where appropriate

Able to make the best use of resources, including employees, ICT and financial resources, whilst striking a balance between cost, quality and price

Able to work with others co-operatively (both internally and externally) in order to achieve better services and customer focused outcomes

Able to behave in a consistent and reliable manner whist ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and with respect

Able to take a balanced view of customer needs and place this at the centre of all decision making

Able to ensure that organisational and performance objectives and standards are achieved

Able demonstrate a drive and desire to improve performance and deliver better services

Accepts responsibility for own actions and able to deal with performance issues quickly and decisively

Ability to plan and monitor health and safety performance and motivate employees to work in a safe and healthy manner

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES (gained through knowledge and experience)

Experience of Performance, Audit & Planning management and knowledge of relevant legislation and best practice.

Project Management, problem solving and negotiating skills.

Computer literate.

Experience of designing and developing policies and procedures to ensure statutory compliance, improve service delivery and achieve organisational aims.

Proven record at management level of delivering required results within a customer focused organisation.

Ability to persuade and influence in a constructive manner.

Established and maintained successful, complex internal and external relationships across a variety of forums.

Proven record of maximising resources and enhancing the quality ethos to ensure efficiency and best value.

Ability to use all methods of communication to engage, influence and gain support in order to achieve organisational aims.

Actively takes into account customer needs and strives to meet them.

Ability to work creatively within rules, processes and standards.

Inspirational team leader and excellent people management skills.

Knowledge and understanding of the provisions within the Local Government (Scotland) Act 2003.

Experience of working at a management level within a large organisation.

Awareness of the major issues facing local government.

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