Service Director - Culture, Wellbeing and Economy

Job Description

Service Director – Culture, Wellbeing and Economy
Waverley Court

Salary: £139,156
Hours: 36 per week

Edinburgh is an outstanding capital city, recognised across the globe as a leader in business, the arts, science and education. The city centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and our cityscape provides a unique architectural and natural backdrop to city living. Home to the internationally renowned Edinburgh festivals and the Scottish Parliament, it is an excellent city in which to live, work, study, visit and invest.

At the City of Edinburgh Council, we’re prioritising creating good places to live and work, taking all the local actions needed to end poverty and working to deliver a net zero city by 2030

We have an amazing opportunity for a senior leader to join our team as our Service Director for Culture, Wellbeing and Economy. Being successful in this role will require you to make strategic connections – further strengthening the links between culture, sport and leisure and wellbeing, as well as developing strategic plans which maximise the contribution that these sectors, and many others, make to the city’s economy. With a proven ability of turning strategic vision into practical results, you’ll ensure that great ideas lead to meaningful change and outcome improvement.

This is an incredible chance for a highly capable and ambitious leader, who possesses exceptional leadership abilities, expertise in this area of work and who can drive our strategic vision across the portfolio of the role.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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For an informal discussion e-mail Gareth.Barwell@edinburgh.gov.uk