As Impact & Intelligence Service Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for public health intelligence, research, and evaluation across the Public Health & Communities Directorate. This is a newly established function, offering a rare opportunity to design, build and embed the Impact & Intelligence team from the ground up, establishing new ways of working, culture and processes and putting your stamp on a high‑profile area of work. The successful candidate will lead the recruitment, development, and leadership of a multidisciplinary analyst team. Reporting to the Head of Service, you will ensure that robust epidemiological analysis, evaluation and insight drive service improvement, policy development, and strategic transformation. You will work closely with senior leaders, the Business Intelligence team, the NHS, and system partners, influencing culture and practice so that evidence‑led decision‑making is embedded as routine across the directorate and beyond. This is a senior leadership role with significant scope to shape direction, standards, quality, and impact.
Responsibilities
* Provide senior public health intelligence and impact leadership across the council, NHS, and partner organisations.
* Lead, develop and continuously improve the Impact & Intelligence function, including research and evaluation capability.
* Ensure the effective integration of data, epidemiology, and research to support an intelligence‑led directorate.
* Set strategic direction for research and evaluation programmes, embedding an outcomes‑focused and equity‑driven approach.
* Influence organisational culture to ensure evidence routinely informs service design, commissioning, and policy.
* Oversee budgets, funding opportunities, and evaluation coordination across programmes, ensuring quality and value for money.
* Maintain high standards of analytical quality, governance, and continuous improvement.
Are you looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic and innovative Public Health team within an award‑winning council focused on placing local people at the heart of everything we do, listening to and doing good for our communities?
Here at Barnsley Council, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. We are excited to be recruiting Impact & Intelligence Service Manager. This is a rare opportunity to shape and lead a new Impact & Intelligence Service within our award‑winning Public Health & Communities Directorate, placing high‑quality public health intelligence, research, and evaluation at the heart of decision‑making across the council and our wider system.
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