Head of Strategy & Continuous Improvement
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £64,959 i £70,071 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | North Shields, Tyne & Wear |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Police |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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Salary Band 12, £64,959 – £70,071 per annum
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
37 hours per week / Permanent Contract
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Hub as a Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement.
As Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement, you will play a central role in shaping the future of the Force. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will lead the strategic planning cycle for the force, ensuring that strategy is informed by robust data, horizon scanning, risk assessment, and a strong understanding of the policing environment. Your work will directly influence decision‑making at the highest level. You will guide the organisation in understanding emerging challenges, using data, research, and insight to inform long‑term planning and support effective decision‑making.
What you’ll do
A substantial part of your role will be to lead and embed a continuous improvement methodology across the Force.
You will introduce structured methodologies and empower teams to redesign services, increase efficiency, and enhance public value. You will champion a culture where learning, innovation, and evidence‑based practice is embedded, ensuring the organisation continually improves service delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness.
You will build strong relationships with senior leaders, partner agencies, oversight bodies, and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, representing the Force in key strategic forums and ensuring that external insight and expectations are effectively reflected in our strategic approach.
You will lead a high‑performing team of strategy, improvement, and insight professionals, modelling the Force’s values and fostering a culture of collaboration, and continuous learning. This is a role for a confident, analytical, and innovative leader, someone who can think strategically, influence and drive meaningful, organisation‑wide improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Highly qualified strategic leader with degree level education (or equivalent experience) and ongoing professional development, bringing deep expertise in strategic planning, performance management, continuous improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, systems thinking), and strong knowledge of the UK policing landscape.
- Proven senior level transformation and analytical capability, with extensive experience leading organisational strategy and large scale change in complex public sector environments, supported by strong analytical and problem solving skills to translate complex data into actionable strategic insight.
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic and operational planning, combining strong organisational and analytical skills to manage complex priorities and stakeholders, develop and implement planning frameworks and reporting mechanisms, and work collaboratively across departments and external partners to align resources and deliver coordinated outcomes.
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving capability, with a proven ability to analyse and synthesise complex data and evidence, diagnose root causes, identify opportunities for improvement or innovation, and design sustainable, system wide solutions while making sound, evidence based decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
- Proven leadership in building high performing teams, demonstrated through the ability to motivate and develop others in line with organisational values and the policing Code of Ethics, work collaboratively across departments and partner agencies to achieve shared outcomes, and set clear objectives while managing performance in a supportive and accountable way.
- Highly effective communicator and influencer, able to convey complex ideas, strategies, and data with clarity and persuasion to diverse audiences, including senior leaders, operational teams, and external partners – while expertly adapting communication style to context and using evidence based insight to influence decision making at executive and board level.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview and presentation. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
37 hours per week / Permanent Contract
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Hub as a Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement.
As Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement, you will play a central role in shaping the future of the Force. As a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will lead the strategic planning cycle for the force, ensuring that strategy is informed by robust data, horizon scanning, risk assessment, and a strong understanding of the policing environment. Your work will directly influence decision‑making at the highest level. You will guide the organisation in understanding emerging challenges, using data, research, and insight to inform long‑term planning and support effective decision‑making.
What you’ll do
A substantial part of your role will be to lead and embed a continuous improvement methodology across the Force.
You will introduce structured methodologies and empower teams to redesign services, increase efficiency, and enhance public value. You will champion a culture where learning, innovation, and evidence‑based practice is embedded, ensuring the organisation continually improves service delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness.
You will build strong relationships with senior leaders, partner agencies, oversight bodies, and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, representing the Force in key strategic forums and ensuring that external insight and expectations are effectively reflected in our strategic approach.
You will lead a high‑performing team of strategy, improvement, and insight professionals, modelling the Force’s values and fostering a culture of collaboration, and continuous learning. This is a role for a confident, analytical, and innovative leader, someone who can think strategically, influence and drive meaningful, organisation‑wide improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Highly qualified strategic leader with degree level education (or equivalent experience) and ongoing professional development, bringing deep expertise in strategic planning, performance management, continuous improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, systems thinking), and strong knowledge of the UK policing landscape.
- Proven senior level transformation and analytical capability, with extensive experience leading organisational strategy and large scale change in complex public sector environments, supported by strong analytical and problem solving skills to translate complex data into actionable strategic insight.
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic and operational planning, combining strong organisational and analytical skills to manage complex priorities and stakeholders, develop and implement planning frameworks and reporting mechanisms, and work collaboratively across departments and external partners to align resources and deliver coordinated outcomes.
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving capability, with a proven ability to analyse and synthesise complex data and evidence, diagnose root causes, identify opportunities for improvement or innovation, and design sustainable, system wide solutions while making sound, evidence based decisions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
- Proven leadership in building high performing teams, demonstrated through the ability to motivate and develop others in line with organisational values and the policing Code of Ethics, work collaboratively across departments and partner agencies to achieve shared outcomes, and set clear objectives while managing performance in a supportive and accountable way.
- Highly effective communicator and influencer, able to convey complex ideas, strategies, and data with clarity and persuasion to diverse audiences, including senior leaders, operational teams, and external partners – while expertly adapting communication style to context and using evidence based insight to influence decision making at executive and board level.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Head of Strategy and Continuous Improvement with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face to face interview and presentation. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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