Data and Performance Manager WCC

As Data and Performance Manager with our high profile Housing Needs service you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Focused on ensuring that data, insight and business intelligence drive operational performance, you'll support strategic decision making across our homelessness, rough sleeping, housing and temporary accommodation services. Providing inspirational leadership on data quality, performance management, business intelligence and statutory reporting, you'll lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of performance frameworks, ensuring your senior colleagues have timely and accurate data to inform their decision making.

Acting as the service lead on performance data , and committed to promoting a culture of evidence-based decision making, you'll lead the analysis of qualitative and quantitative information to identify trends, risks, opportunities and improvements to the services we provide. We'll also expect you to coordinate statutory, regulatory and performance returns to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Greater London Authority and other stakeholders, support strategic projects, service transformation programmes and change initiatives, and develop effective relationships with internal teams, commissioned providers, partner agencies and elected Members.

You'll have a range of additional responsibilities - these include leading on benchmarking, research and performance analysis to identify innovation and best practice, and promoting coordinated approaches to preventing homelessness and rough sleeping through the effective use of performance information and insights. You'll also ensure commissioned services and providers adopt robust performance management arrangements and a person-centred approach to service delivery, and lead by example by supporting the development of a high-performing, inclusive and collaborative culture.,

As team manager, you'll be responsible for supporting your team of 4 to grow their reporting skills to provide the data needed by the Housing Needs service.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.

If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

To be a success in this important role you'll have proven experience of leading and developing performance, data, intelligence or business improvement functions within a large organisation, and be ready to deliver strategic and operational performance management arrangements that support our objectives. Capable of analysing complex financial and performance information, and translating your findings into actionable recommendations, you'll also have led projects and service improvement programmes within complex service environments.

Highly motivated and strategically…