Job Title: Corporate Manager - Waste
The person specification contains two elements:
 The core specification which covers the cross-cutting corporate management role
 The role specific specification element
This person specification is to be read in conjunction with the Person Specification.
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Core
Knowledge Educated to degree standard or with a comparable level of experience
and skills
Management qualification e.g. DMS or equivalent managerial experience
Evidence of directly and effectively contributing technical and/or professional
expertise to a significant initiative or project
Has a track record in continuous personal and professional development
and an ability to encourage learning and development in others
Experience of effective project management incorporating multiple partners
Experience of managing a range of resources including IT, budgets and
funding streams
Demonstrable experience of performance management in a range of
settings: may be supplemented by commissioning experience/expertise
Personal
attributes
Excellent and adaptive communication skills including experience of
negotiating and influencing
Overt commitment to openness, inclusiveness and integrity evidenced in a
range of working environments where highly effective working relationships
have been built with Members, colleagues, partners and stakeholders
Politically astute, with significant previous experience of working with
Elected Members in a range of local government environments
Tenacious and resourceful: can challenge with confidence: understands and
can work with ambiguity
Can demonstrate previous success in motivating and developing teams and
individuals
Ability in and experience of driving performance and achieving challenging
outcomes
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Can describe experience of delegating effectively to optimise team and
organisational performance
Experience Can provide evidence of a range of management experience, including the
management of multi professional teams
Has positive experience of managing complex change and an understanding
of change processes
Experience of successful partnership and/or collaborative working
incorporating a range of organisations which may include the statutory,
voluntary and community sectors
Has demonstrable experience of effective team working including working
with those outside direct sphere of management
Can describe experience of working corporately within a management team
or peer group where peer relationships were crucial to success
Equality &
Diversity
Embeds issues relating to equity, equality and diversity into all aspects of
professional and managerial role, including service delivery
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PERSON SPECIFICATION: Specific
Knowledge NVQ Level 4 in Business Management as well as considerable experience at
a senior level in Waste Management
and skills
Extensive skills and experience in management of services and contracts
including experience of taking responsibility for the financial monitoring and
management of a contract budget with a significant annual spend, which
includes management of the recharge process.
Ability to review existing data and financial/business management systems
and procedures in use within the Waste Service Team.
Ability to design, implement and manage appropriate financial, business and
performance management systems for the Joint Waste and Recycling
Contract, and within the Waste Services Team.
Ability to prepare and present financial and performance management
reports, gathering, analysing and presenting information and data, relating to
the performance and service delivery of the waste and recycling services
contractors, for both councils.
Ability to interpret information e.g. ensuring payments to contractors are
effectively managed, revenue conforms to expectations, performance
management systems utilise statutory data collected to produce robust
performance management reports.
Ability to manage complex financial data to ensure correct reconciliation of
the Joint Waste contract between the councils and ensure monies are
reimbursed between the two separate councils on revenue and capital issues
Previous experience of working a financial and administrative procedural
framework including comprehensive knowledge and experience of working
with computerised systems, e.g. financial, database, spreadsheets etc.
Personal
attributes
Strong customer relationship skills.
Excellent negotiating skills in order to deal with complaints and queries from
residents as well as negotiating issues with the contractor relating to
performance delivery
Good level written and communication skills required to convey varied and/or
complex information with a range of audiences. This includes production and
presentation of reports to managers, Operational Group, Joint Management
Board Member Panel and committees
Ability to provide advice and guidance on specialism within service area and
to resolve varied and/or complex problems within remit of specialism.
Experience of building effective relationships with i.e. with staff, contractors
etc.
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Awareness of political issues relating to own specialism and working in a
political environment.
Experience of performance management, data collection and production of
reports and statistics in a work related area.
Experience of enforcing waste regulations
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