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Senior Leadership Recruitment
This is a rewarding opportunity to join us and showcase your talent, creativity and determination to deliver excellent services for the diverse communities we serve
Dear applicant,
We’re delighted that you are interested in becoming our next Head of Highways and hope that you find the information on our microsite helpful.
Our Vision
Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district that combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life – leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives.
Highways
Following the retirement of our current Head of Highways we are seeking a highways professional to provide inspirational and visionary leadership to multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a best-in-class service that continues to deliver efficient highways that supports our growth and are fit for today and tomorrow.
We have huge ambitions for our organisation, partnerships, our people and communities, and we want you to play a part in this. We are looking for creative, people-centred senior leaders to join our motivated leadership team, working together to deliver the council’s objectives.
A strong collaborator and innovator, you will inspire and influence colleagues and partners across the highways sector in both Kirklees and West Yorkshire and continue to find innovative ways to change lives and improve outcomes.
If you feel that you have the skills and the track record required and can combine this with a real sense of ambition for tenants, the council and the borough at this exciting time, we would love to hear from you.
Best wishes
Kat Armitage
Service Director
Service Director Environmental Strategy and Climate Change
Adults and Health
Kirklees is a strong regional player and are seen as an innovator in social care, with examples of our work being cited nationally. As our Service Director – Strategic Commissioning, Partnerships and Provider Services, you will have the opportunity to lead a high performing Directorate team and join our talented broader leadership team and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, inclusive services for all residents of the borough. Reporting directly to me, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing our organisational strategies and ensuring that our vision and corporate objectives are met with excellence.
A strong collaborator and innovator, you will inspire and influence colleagues and partners across the broad health and care system in both Kirklees and West Yorkshire and continue to find innovative ways to change lives and improve outcomes.
If you feel that you have the skills and the track record required and can combine this with a real sense of ambition for residents, the council and the borough at this exciting time, we would love to hear from you.
Best wishes
Michelle Cross
Homes and Neighbourhoods
Kirklees Homes and Neighbourhoods is on an improvement journey to become a landlord of choice, recognised for service excellence by our tenants. We are striving to be an excellent landlord by putting tenants and communities first.
Like us, you will value well informed and engaged tenants whose voice helps to shape decisions for service design and delivery. You will lead a highly motivated, trained and supportive workforce that puts our tenants at the heart of all we do. Your financial acumen will help leverage the strength of the Housing Revenue Account to improve the experience of tenants. Your experience will ensure we exercise good financial management and control as well as deliver value for money. You will bring relevant knowledge of systems and processes that enable robust data and insight, and ensure we design from the tenant’s perspective and enable place-based working.
As our Service Director of Homes and Neighbourhoods, you will have the opportunity to lead an improving service team and join our talented broader leadership team and contribute to our mission of delivering high-quality, inclusive services for all our tenants. Reporting directly to me, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing our organisational strategies and ensuring that our vision and Directorate objectives are met with excellence.
A strong collaborator and innovator, you will inspire and influence colleagues and partners across the social housing sector in both Kirklees and West Yorkshire and continue to find innovative ways to change lives and improve outcomes.
If you feel that you have the skills and the track record required and can combine this with a real sense of ambition for tenants, the council and the borough at this exciting time, we would love to hear from you.
Best wishes
David Shepherd
Executive Director for Place