2-3 months contract with a Local Authority Job Summary: • We are seeking an experienced Head of Revenues to lead a high-performing Local Taxation Revenue Collection Service. • As a senior leader, you will direct the strategic vision and daily operations, ensuring effective, efficient, and customer-focused delivery. • You’ll manage a significant budget and income stream while driving innovation, digital transformation, and performance excellence across services. Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample): • Lead and manage teams responsible for Council Tax and Business Rates collection, setting strategy and policy direction. • Oversee the overall debt position and establish sound monitoring practices across local taxation. • Champion fair, efficient income collection practices and develop innovative, customer-centric solutions. • Implement a “Digital by Desire” approach, ensuring systems and processes drive digital adoption and service improvement. • Manage operational budgets, forecast performance, ensure savings targets, and redesign services to mitigate financial pressures. • Actively contribute to department leadership by challenging norms, identifying improvements, and designing more effective ways of working. • Develop and deliver the service business plan, aligned to corporate strategy and financial planning, with clear, measurable outcomes. • Maximise grant funding and mitigate financial risk through proactive system controls. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, high performance, and excellent customer experience. • Maintain effective stakeholder relationships, including with elected members and senior leadership, as well as external partners. Skills/Experience: • Proven leadership in a Local Taxation Revenue Collection environment at a senior level with performance targets. • Strong track record of delivering service transformation, customer-facing improvements, and budget savings. • Skilled in using data and demand analysis to improve performance and inform service planning. • Commercially astute with experience in fair income collection, budget management, and performance delivery. • Excellent team leadership and stakeholder management capabilities. • Politically aware with experience in working with elected officials and diverse internal and external partners. • Outstanding communication, negotiation, and influencing skills with the ability to deliver under pressure. • Educated to degree level (or equivalent), ideally with relevant qualifications (e.g., IRRV or CICM) and a management qualification. • Experience with digital systems and driving digital culture, plus project or process redesign experience (desirable). Additional Information: • The closing date: 10/09/2025 @10:00. • Full-time role: 36 Hr/week.