Chief of Staff, Public Sector Partnership Services

Full Time/Part Time:
Full Time

Job Location:
Horncastle, Spalding, Boston

Salary Range: £78,000

Closing Date: 14/09/2026

Lead transformation. Shape strategy. Deliver better public services. This is a unique opportunity to join our organisation at a pivotal moment in our organisation's journey.

Contract Type:
Permanent

Full Time/Part Time:
Full Time

Job Location:
Horncastle, Spalding, Boston

Salary Range: £78,000

Closing Date: 14/09/2026

Lead transformation. Shape strategy. Deliver better public services. This is a unique opportunity to join our organisation at a pivotal moment in our organisation's journey.

As a trusted partner to our Chief Executive, you'll help shape the future of a dynamic local authority trading company delivering high-quality enabling services to multiple councils. With local government reorganisation gathering pace and increasing demand for innovative, commercially focused public services, you'll play a central role in ensuring our organisation is ready for what comes next.

Reporting directly to the CEO and working alongside our Chief Financial Officer, Chief Delivery Officer and wider Senior Leadership, you'll have strategic responsibility and oversight of our corporate and commercial functions, drive strategic transformation, strengthen our commercial planning and capability and ensure the organisation has the people, governance and performance frameworks needed to succeed.

This is an opportunity to influence strategy, lead organisational change and help shape the future of local public service delivery.

We are a trusted local authority trading company delivering a diverse portfolio of front and back-office services on behalf of multiple local authorities. Our ambition is simple – to provide outstanding services that enable our council partners to deliver better outcomes for residents while continually improving efficiency, resilience and value for money.

As the public sector evolves, we are evolving with it, embracing innovation, developing commercial opportunities and supporting our partners through significant change, including Local Government Reorganisation.

As Chief of Staff, you will be one of the organisation's senior leaders, providing strategic leadership across our enabling services while ensuring that our corporate ambitions translate into measurable delivery day to day.

Working directly with the CEO, you will coordinate corporate priorities, lead major transformation programmes and provide oversight of key business functions including:

• Human Resources and Organisational Development
• Procurement and Contracts
• Corporate Support and Business Services
• Corporate Planning and Performance
• Strategic Commercial Development
• Governance and Organisational Assurance

You will also contribute towards our organisational response to Local Government Reorganisation, ensuring we remain agile, resilient and well-positioned to support our council shareholders through change.

We're looking for an accomplished senior leader who combines strategic vision with the ability to deliver complex organisational change across our operational delivery.

You’ll bring:

• Significant senior leadership experience within a LATCO, local government, the wider public sector or another complex public delivery organisation.
• A proven track record of leading multiple corporate services and delivering organisation-wide transformation.
• Experience of advising Boards, Directors or elected members within complex governance environments.
• Strong expertise in one or more corporate disciplines, including HR, organisational development, procurement or corporate governance, supported by an appropriate professional qualification and demonstration of ongoing CPD.
• Experience on leading…