Transformation Project Manager

at  Oxfordshire County Council

ABOUT US

Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We’re seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of ‘daring to do it differently’, as we continue to strive to do better.
Children, Education and Families (CEF) is a directorate of dedicated children’s services professionals faced with continuing increases in demand, costs, and complexity of needs across social care and special educational needs and disability (SEND).
In response, our vision and strategy are to transform services to secure even better outcomes for children and young people and improve financial sustainability.
To achieve this, we have a portfolio of service transformation programmes to shape and deliver, which will enable us, amongst other things, to become increasingly focused on early help and intervention, working more effectively with our local area partners.
Our investment in CEF has created a number of vacancies; we are looking for experienced transformation and change management professionals to join our newly established CEF Transformation Team working to deliver and help shape projects that will make a bigger difference to children, young people, and their parent carers; it’s a really exciting time to join us!

This is a specialist role, responsible for the successful delivery of priority projects that involve service improvement, change management and continuous improvement. As part of this, you will:

• Lead and manage service improvement projects, across the end-to-end life cycle, from business case and project initiation through the phases and implementation to agreed time, cost, and quality criteria, with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for CYP and financial sustainability of services.
• Work with, and gain commitment from internal clients and stakeholders to an agreed project mandate, objectives and expected measurable outputs for service improvement initiatives, including implementation.
• Provide subject matter expertise, support, and guidance to project proposals, including the most suitable approaches to service improvement, change management and continuous improvement.
• Provide rigour in delivery of service transformation projects in accordance with accepted best practice and in align with corporate approaches, the council’s values (Delivering the Future Together) and aspirations (Children’s Oxfordshire Way) to develop new ways of working across all service.