Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

Our ‘One Coventry’ plan is a powerful and inspiring statement of our vision and priorities for the city, rooted in residents’ priorities. We play a key role in improving our already flourishing city, and ensuring that Coventry continues to be a great place to live and work. We aim to be globally connected, locally committed, deliver our priorities with fewer resources whilst effectively managing our performance and measuring our progress. 

This role will provide exceptional strategic leadership across a demanding and rewarding professional domain. If you’re looking for a setting where you can achieve more – from day one – we’d like to hear from you.

Our new Director for Planning and Performance will be responsible for driving the organisation forward, delivering business-critical evolution and helping to write the next chapter of Coventry’s story. It’s a new role, in which you’ll bring together the considerable resources and capacity of teams across the Council to achieve the full potential of our ‘One Coventry’ priorities. This will include performance reporting, service planning, transformation, insight, and design across the Council, putting residents at the heart of our programmes and service delivery. Place Based Integration and community resilience must underpin everything you do. 

Candidates need extensive experience of delivering significant transformation programmes within complex organisations, and must be skilled at building and developing partnerships. An understanding of end-to-end redesign principles is essential, as is a track record of on-time delivery and managing large budgets. You will have overseen a broad range of commissioned services, contractors, and third-party suppliers, and will be a sophisticated and thoughtful manager of people, able to optimise motivation, performance, and capability at all levels.

Please visit www.faerfield.co.uk/coventry to find out more. To arrange an informal conversation with our advising consultants Dawn Faulkner or Sean Anderson, please call 0121 312 3755.

Selection and Interview dates
Preliminary/Technical Interviews: w/c 18 November
Assessment Centre and Final Interviews: Thurs. 12th and Thurs. 19th December

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council