Key Responsibilities
The Collective Leadership Responsibilities are attached to this profile.
Provide strategic leadership, coordination, and assurance for Local Government Reorganisation across Derbyshire’s ten councils.
Work with the Chief Executives’ Group to ensure the overall LGR programme has clear direction, effective governance, agreed priorities and a shared delivery framework.
Direct the Programmes to create two new Unitary authorities and migrate function from ten existing authorities.
Maintain a single strategic overview of the overarching Derbyshire LGR programme, including progress, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, resourcing, and delivery confidence across the creation of both unitary councils.
Ensure effective reporting to Chief Executives, Leaders and other relevant governance forums, providing clear, timely and evidence-based advice to support decision making.
Identify and manage cross-cutting issues between the North and South programmes, including matters relating to workforce, finance, governance, legal readiness, ICT, data, assets, communications, service continuity, and organisational design.
Ensure that programme management arrangements support a safe, lawful, and well-managed transition to the new authorities, with appropriate attention to statutory requirements, democratic governance, financial sustainability, and service continuity.
Support the development of consistent programme standards, tools, and disciplines across both PMOs, including risk management, dependency tracking, benefits planning, milestone reporting, assurance, and escalation.
Work with Chief Executives and senior officers to resolve areas of misalignment, duplication, delay, or ambiguity arising from the creation of two new unitary authorities.
Provide strategic oversight of the central supporting team, ensuring it adds value through coordination, assurance, governance support, programme insight, and high-quality reporting.
Support effective communication and engagement across the ten councils, helping to ensure consistent messages for employees, Members, partners, Trade Unions, and other stakeholders.
Build trusted relationships across sovereign councils with different priorities, political leaderships, organisational cultures, and local circumstances.
Provide constructive challenge and support to senior leaders and programme leads, ensuring that delivery remains focused, realistic, and appropriately risk managed.
Ensure that workforce, culture, and organisational change considerations are visible within the overall LGR programme and linked appropriately with HR and OD leads across the councils.
Liaise with Government departments and national bodies as required, ensuring that Derbyshire’s LGR programme can respond to national expectations, guidance, and decision points.
Promote a culture of collaboration, openness, pace, and shared accountability across the LGR programme.
Ensure that the overall Derbyshire LGR programme is supported by clear governance, robust assurance, and transparent reporting, providing confidence to Chief Executives, Leaders and Members.