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Operations Business Manager

Job details
Posting date: 17 May 2024
Salary: £45,441 to £50,512 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 June 2024
Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Hertfordshire County Council
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: HCC25600

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Summary

About the Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hertfordshire Home Improvement Agency (HHIA) in our fast-paced DFG adaptations and income generating service. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised person, who can ensure consistent high levels of managerial support. You will join a friendly, dedicated and inclusive support team.

The Hertfordshire Home Improvement Agency (HHIA) is part of an innovative amalgamation of resources from six districts coming together to provide a service that supports the independence of local residents. The aim of the HHIA is to create a better living experience through adaptation for residents of Hertfordshire. The HHIA can deliver this through a government grant known as the Disabled Facilities Grant.

The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG), which is means tested, helps to pay for essential home adaptations such as Level Access showers, stairlifts, ramps or to make other changes to the home to enable disabled children and adults to lead more independent lives.

About the role
The following responsibilities provides an overview of what the

Managing a dynamic senior business support team

To deputise for the Head of Service

Regular monitoring of finance, and workload management

Ensure projects deliver to agreed quality standards, timescales and budgets and
programmes deliver benefits against targets.

Work with district HHIA Partnership, Housing associations, OTs to achieve required outcomes, success criteria and governance.

Provide line management and strategic direction to enable effective management of benefits, resources, issues, and risks across the programme.

Ensure all systems operate smoothly and align with our quality standards.

Monitor financial data and recommend solutions that will improve profitability.

The HHIA Operations Manager responsibilities include tracking business results, performing cost-benefit analyses and monitoring production KPIs. To be a successful Business Operations Manager, you should have experience in the same or similar role, managing all business operations and setting goals across the entire organization.

About you
Essential

Adept at building and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders
The ability to interpret financial data and forecasting
Exceptional communication skills
Experience of leading and motivating a small team or staff
Able to work under pressure
People Management and Motivation
Desirable:

Experience of leading and motivating a small team or staff
Experience of partnership working and leading a Board
Problem solving and conflict management skills
Leadership and motivational skills
Accountability
Every week is different and an opportunity to learn. Our team is involved in a hugely diverse set of services and initiatives, with opportunities to build new relationships and understand the important services we deliver to residents of Hertfordshire. The challenges are many, the reward of client being independent in their own homes through adaptations for the people that we support and seeing the changes that come from that make the efforts worthwhile.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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