Strategy & Policy Manager

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Job description

Strategy & Policy Manager

Grade MM1: £38,946 - £49,818

Ref: 7431

Enfield Council is seeking to appoint a Strategy and Policy Manager to work as part of our dynamic Corporate Strategy Service.

This challenging role will provide the postholder with a genuine opportunity to shape the future of the borough of Enfield through delivering high quality policy, strategy and consultation work.

As an experienced strategy and policy professional, you will use your excellent organisational, analytical, facilitating, drafting and management skills to drive a varied work programme, spanning across all departments, to help the council deliver our objectives as expressed in our new Council Plan .

As part of this work programme, you will use your established stakeholder management skills to develop and maintain positive collaborative working relationships with our senior managers and partners to scope, develop and deliver cohesive high quality and innovative work.

This role will require local and national networking, liaising with officers across Council services, elected members, MPs offices, a range of local partner organisations and citizens. It is fast paced, complex and challenging but it is always rewarding. If you can manage conflicting priorities and tight deadlines, are adept at developing innovative policy and strategy in a complex environment and want to make a difference for people in Enfield, please submit an application.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.

For more information about the role please contact the Strategy and Policy Team Manager or Head of Strategy and Policy

To apply for this position please visit our website via the button below.

The closing date is 23:59pm Monday 13 th December 2021.

Interviews are planned for 6 th and 7 th January 2022.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.