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About the Role

Help shape better futures for children and young people by redesigning key services to build a safer, fairer, and brighter future for children and families.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact transformation projects from concept to implementation within the Social Care and Complex Needs Portfolio.
• Tackle intricate challenges to maintain high-quality, equitable, and sustainable services.
• Analyze performance data, manage project budgets, and navigate risks.
• Co-produce solutions that make a tangible difference to children and young people.
• Bring diverse partners together around a shared goal.
• Craft strategies to boost placement options.
• Ensure changes are delivered with care and professional skill.
• Mentor and guide transformation officers and graduate trainees.
• Embed sound governance across the directorate.

Requirements

• Hold a degree-level qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Show a clear commitment to continuous learning.
• Possess a proven track record of steering complex transformation programmes.
• Demonstrate delivery of real, measurable efficiencies within large organisations.
• Exhibit sharp analytical insight.
• Possess strategic perspective.
• Have an instinctive ability to build trust across organisational boundaries.
• Background experience in Children’s Services is welcome.
• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and ease when navigating ambiguity.
• Naturally reflect core values of Putting Communities First, Respect, Integrity, and Working Together.
• Children’s Enhanced DBS required for the role.

Skills

• Analytical insight
• Strategic perspective
• Building trust
• Resilience
• Adaptability
• Navigating ambiguity

Location

• Borough-based

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior level

Education Level

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent practical experience

Salary/Compensations

• New hires will normally start at the minimum of the pay scale.
• A higher starting salary may be negotiated where a candidate demonstrates exceptional skills, knowledge, or experience.
• Employees receive annual salary increments until they reach the top of the pay scale, as well as any agreed cost of living pay awards.

Benefits

• Direct exposure to senior leaders and cross-borough strategic decisions.
• Active championing of career progression.
• Structured opportunities to broaden expertise across social care, health, and commissioning.
• Shaping high-profile policy across two London boroughs.

About the Company

• Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses, and unique local places.
• Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach, and creating a fairer borough.
• We are a competent and caring Council, taking pride in our work every day.
• We listen to our residents, act with integrity, and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer, and fairer for all.
• Our commitment to being ‘all in’ means bringing energy, purpose, and a genuine get-stuck-in mindset to work every day.
• Transforming services in a complex, high-profile environment with real political and financial considerations.
• The reward is extraordinary, with every bit of effort yielding direct benefits for vulnerable children and young people.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
• We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
• We are committed to fair, transparent, and consistent pay practices.