Director of Streetscene

With glowing feedback, our recent Corporate Peer Challenge highlighted specific strengths such as leadership, partnership working, organisational culture and service delivery.  We are really proud of the findings and the praise we received. 

We continue to have big ambitions for our borough; large scale award winning projects such as Daedalus, Fareham Live, Town Centre Regeneration and Welborne bring positive benefits to residents and the local economy.  Our Corporate Strategy sets out how we will ensure that Fareham remains a prosperous, attractive and safe place to be so that our communities and businesses thrive and the lives of our residents are improved.

We want to hear from talented, committed leaders who share our enthusiasm and focus for continual improvement to further serve our community to join our newly structured Senior Leadership Team.  

You'll be responsible for setting the strategic aims of the Department of Streetscene and act as advisor to Elected Members providing impartial advice and guidance, anticipating and identifying issues and providing solutions which meet strategic objectives.

In particular, you will be transforming and leading:

• The introduction of our food waste collection.
• A new approach to simpler recycling.
• A more commercial approach to Trade Waste.
• Modernising our vehicle fleet.

You'll anticipate and resolve financial challenges, exploring new avenues for income generation.

Supporting the development of high performing teams, you'll provide clear direction and ensure your teams are motivated, supported and engaged, trusting employees to do their jobs and do them well.  You'll foster a focus on a 'joined up approach' allowing your teams to take personal responsibility for finding ways to collaborate and encourage creativity and innovation.

You'll support a corporate culture which encourages innovation, creates trust and respect throughout the organisation in a safe, open and equitable environment.

We're looking for highly resilient Director, who is experienced in leading large teams of people across high profile frontline operations, ideally in a Street Scene setting, with a track record of delivering continuous improvement and organisational transformation in a complex organisation.  You will need to be able to “keep the show on the road”; with the ability to deliver at pace, always with an eye to doing the best for our customers within constrained resources.

You'll have experience of developing successful organisational strategies to achieve the corporate vision and ambitions and of translating these into achievable operational objectives and plans.

A strategic thinker with an honest and straightforward style, you will share the value that customers are at the heart of all that we do.   

The Council has a reputation for delivering excellent services to our residents and businesses, thanks to our loyal and hard-working teams, who all share our pride in the borough. Having adopted systems thinking throughout the organisation, our teams understand what great service is, and strive daily to remain focussed on doing the right thing for our customers.

We also have a track record of achieving incredible things with our limited resources; from our recent investment of £20m in the award winning Fareham Live theatre and it’s car park, recently completed £7m investment in leisure and sport facilities, delivery of a thriving business park and airport centred around the Solent Enterprise Zone to 6,000 homes, new businesses and supporting infrastructure in one of the UK’s only new Garden Villages at Welborne.

Fareham Borough Council is a great place to work and you would be joining an organisation that has a real family feel to it. We take pride in receiving feedback from others who say we are a friendly and professional organisation. We aim to attract, develop and retain the very best people.

We offer a great pension scheme, authorised parking, flexible working and a car lease scheme to name a few of the benefits of working for us.

Please note: - If you do choose to apply for this position you will be asked to submit a short video within the application detailing a little about yourself, what attracted you to the post and why you should be considered for shortlisting. You should “allow” any requests to access your device’s camera and microphone to allow the recording to take place.

As our Director of Streetscene, you will need to share our passion and values to continue our important journey and shape the future of Fareham.

If you believe you have the skills and qualities we are looking for, and the information on our web pages makes you smile, we look forward to hearing from you!

If you have any queries on any aspect of the recruitment process or need additional information, please contact Sarah Simmons, HR Business Partner at [email protected]