Head of Improvement

Our Strategy and Improvement function based within SPS Headquarters, in Edinburgh, is looking for a Head of Improvement to join their expanding team.

SPS is committed to putting the people who live and work in Scotland’s prisons at the heart of the design, delivery and improvement of services. The role of Head of Improvement will be at the forefront of this commitment, developing and delivering the SPS improvement framework, supporting SPS to meets its obligations as an Executive Agency of Scottish Government, as a public body and as a prison service. This is a new, challenging and rewarding role, working across internal and external stakeholders, bringing people and systems together in support of strategic planning, performance and risk management, business intelligence and analysis and improving our management information arrangements as well as ensuring SPS responds effectively to public scrutiny.

As Head of Improvement, you will lead the Corporate Planning, Performance and Risk Team and the Business Improvement and Analysis Team. You will work closely with the Head of Strategy and Improvement as well as the Strategy team to bring qualitative and quantitative research behind improvement priorities. You will be responsible for the management, governance and control of the SPS Improvement Framework as well as implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management approach, including implementation of processes, tools and systems to identify, assess, measure, manage and report risks.

About you:

If you have the following, we would like to hear from you:

· Experience of providing strategic leadership for a risk, performance, analytical or improvement function.

· Project management experience.

· Experience of managing change, and finding new and improved ways of working, and implementing changes across a large organisation.

· Sound understanding of public body expectations, including the integration of approaches to improvement, performance, risk management and business analysis.

· Ability to solve problems, make sound decisions, plan and organise workload and communicate and build effective working relationships with others.

Benefits on offer include (but are not limited to):

· Attractive Pension (Civil Service)

· Supportive towards candidates attaining Industry Recognised Qualifications

· Specialist Training

· Annual Leave - 37 days rising to 42 days

· Employee Savings scheme, including Cycle to Work

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Sick Pay

For further information on this exciting opportunity, including full job description, person specification, assessment process and to apply for this vacancy please visit www.sps.gov.uk.

Closing date for applications is: 16^th March 2021 at 12noon.