Director of Strategy and Partnerships

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Personal Attributes

  Flexible and highly motivated

• Personal Attributes

  Project a professional image

• Personal Attributes

  Compliant with the requirements of Fit and Proper Persons Regulations, including Board level competency framework

• Skills and Abilities

  Highly developed negotiation/interpersonal skills

• Skills and Abilities

  Excellent communication and relationship skills

• Skills and Abilities

  Excellent analytical and judgement skills, including ability to consider and manage the strategic, political and operational factors within highly complex situations

• Skills and Abilities

  Excellent planning and organisational skills and ‘whole system’ analysis

• Skills and Abilities

  Project management skills

• Skills and Abilities

  Ability to manage complex and contentious situations and to resolve/move forward in situations where there are no obvious solutions

• Skills and Abilities

  Ability to work and act autonomously within senior decision-making forums internally and as Trust representative in external forums

• Skills and Abilities

  Resilience and ability to cope within a highly challenging environment

• Skills and Abilities

  Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner

• Skills and Abilities

  Able to communicate across wide demographic boundaries in an appropriate manner

• Skills and Abilities

  Strong management, motivational and leadership skills

• Skills and Abilities

  Ability to think strategically and grasp complex policy and political issues, good understanding on the healthcare policy context.

• Skills and Abilities

  Ability to grasp, analyse and interpret complex ideas and translate them into language that is easily accessible to all audiences.

• Skills and Abilities

  Understanding of public affairs, stakeholder engagement techniques and best practice, branding and marketing communications

• Knowledge and Experience

  Extensive and significant experience and demonstrable success of working at a very senior level in a communications and stakeholder engagement role in a large complex organisation

• Knowledge and Experience

  Project management within a complex, multiagency service system, including proactive management of change

• Knowledge and Experience

  Managing across different organisational cultures and working across professional groups

• Knowledge and Experience

  Working effectively within the local political and health sector environment

• Knowledge and Experience

  Leadership of substantial service change

• Knowledge and Experience

  Understanding of national requirements and developments within the health and social care and their implications for ambulance services

• Knowledge and Experience

  Experience of managing a team

• Knowledge and Experience

  Experience of budget management, including large scale project budget management

• Qualifications and Education

  Educated to Masters level or with current equivalent experience

• Qualifications and Education

  Additional appropriate specialist qualification or management qualification

• Qualifications and Education

  Significant amount of experience in a senior management position

• Qualifications and Education

  Substantial evidence of specialist knowledge and ongoing education relevant to varied aspects of role