Assistant Director Performance, Insight, Policy

CompanyBirmingham City Council

LocationBirmingham, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/22/2026

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Description

Assistant Director – Performance, Insight & Policy

Permanent

£87,724 - £130,531

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Role Overview

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Assistant Director - Performance, Insight & Policy to play a critical role in driving organisation-wide transformation across one of Europe's largest Local Authorities.

This senior leadership role sits at the heart of the Council’s performance and insight agenda, combining deep data and analytics expertise, strong commercial acumen, and outstanding people skills to deliver measurable improvement across a large, complex organisation on a journey of transformation!

Key Focus Areas

Leading and embedding a corporate performance management framework
Designing systems and processes to use data more effectively and turn insight into action
Owning corporate business planning and supporting Directorates to deliver evidence-led plans

About You

Expert in data, insight and performance management
Strong commercial understanding of how to drive change at scale
Proven experience influencing across complex organisations
Able to translate complex data into clear strategic advice

This is a rare opportunity to shape how insight and performance drives positive outcomes for over a million residents!

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team : resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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Job Description And Person Specification

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