Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council – Corporate Change & Improvement Manager
Salary: Grade 16 £76,597.00 - £81,370.00
Location: Dudley, West Midlands - hybrid
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
The Opportunity
You will be the senior leader directing our Corporate Change & Improvement function, overseeing the PMO and Business Operations & Support services, embedding governance, assurance and performance disciplines that safeguard delivery of the Council’s Improvement Plan and wider transformation portfolio.
Responsibilities
* Oversee the full corporate portfolio – ensuring strategic alignment, prioritisation, inspection readiness and measurable benefits realisation.
* Strengthen governance and assurance – embedding proportionate, transparent frameworks that ensure statutory compliance, effective risk management and organisational resilience.
* Lead portfolio performance and financial oversight – delivering consolidated reporting, milestone tracking, risk escalation and benefits management at corporate level.
* Align resources to priorities – coordinating financial, people and digital capacity across a complex and evolving change landscape.
* Drive process and systems optimisation – modernising operating models, embedding standard operating procedures and ensuring a clear single source of truth.
* Oversee corporate change control and organisational design – ensuring transformation is impact‑assessed, governed and sustainably embedded.
* Champion a high‑performance culture – building capability within the PMO and change function and embedding continuous improvement disciplines.
Qualifications & Experience
* Significant experience operating at senior corporate level within local government or a complex public sector environment.
* A strong track record of leading improvement portfolios in politically sensitive, multi‑agency contexts.
* Deep expertise in governance, assurance, performance management and statutory compliance.
* Experience supporting inspection readiness and organisational recovery or improvement journeys.
* The credibility and judgement to influence senior officers, elected members and external stakeholders.
* A passion for strengthening accountability, digital maturity and sustainable organisational performance.
Benefits & Opportunity
Rare opportunity to shape the Council’s corporate backbone: governance, change, assurance and operational effectiveness. Leadership will safeguard delivery of our Improvement Plan, strengthen inspection readiness and ensure transformation delivers tangible outcomes for residents and communities.
Equal Opportunity
Dudley MBC is committed to diversity and inclusion. The Council will use anonymised applications; we do not require names or dates of birth on attachments. All applicants will be considered fairly and without bias.
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