Community Services Lead (Customer Experience)

Are you an experienced leader with a passion for customer experience, service transformation and delivering high-quality public services? We're looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking Community Services Lead to play a key role in shaping and delivering our Customer Experience vision. This is an exciting opportunity to lead large-scale transformation activity, improve how services are designed and delivered, and ensure residents receive a seamless, modern and inclusive experience when they contact the Council Why Join Us? Residents, businesses and visitors are at the heart of everything we do. In this role, you'll help ensure our services are accessible, efficient and responsive to customer needs. Working closely with the Head of Customer Experience, you'll influence strategic direction, lead transformation programmes and drive continuous improvement across services. You'll collaborate with colleagues across services to create better outcomes for our communities, modernising services while supporting digital inclusion and high-quality customer care. What You'll Lead As our Community Services Lead, you will: Lead and Inspire

• Lead and motivate teams and stakeholders to deliver high-performing, customer-focused services
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation
Drive Transformation and Service Improvement
• Shape and deliver the Council's Customer Experience vision and transformation programme
• Lead large-scale change initiatives, ensuring successful implementation and adoption
• Redesign services and processes to improve efficiency, quality and customer satisfaction
Deliver Projects and Programmes
• Manage complex transformation projects from design through to delivery and review
• Coordinate governance, readiness activity and post-implementation evaluation
• Ensure services transition smoothly to new systems and ways of working
Use Data and Insight to Improve Services
• Oversee the use of performance, demand and customer insight data to inform decision-making
• Strengthen reporting, forecasting and performance management approaches
• Turn insight into practical improvements that enhance customer outcomes
Champion Inclusion and Partnership Working
• Promote inclusive service design and digital accessibility
• Work with partners and stakeholders to deliver joined-up solutions
• Represent Customer Experience services across the organisation and externally
  
  You'll bring:
• Relevant professional qualification or equivalent strong experience leading customer-focused services, transformation or service improvement
• Expertise in multi-channel customer contact environments, systems and best practice
• A proven track record of delivering change programmes and improving performance
• Confidence using data and insight to drive decisions and improve outcomes
• Excellent leadership, communication and influencing skills
• Experience managing teams, budgets and competing priorities in a complex environment
You will be:
• Strategic, able to see the bigger picture and shape long-term direction
• A positive change leader who can bring people with you
• Analytical and data-driven in your approach
• Passionate about delivering inclusive, customer-focused services that make a difference
Make a Difference If you're motivated by transformation, passionate about improving services, and committed to delivering excellent customer experiences, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help create a Customer Experience service that works better for residents, communities and colleagues across Northumberland.

Northumberland County Council's (NCC) vision is 'Land of Great Opportunities', for current and future generations. We believe there is no better place to live and work.

26 days annual leave plus public/bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years of service (pro rata for part-time employees) -Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme -Flexi scheme (if applicable) - up to 2 days flexible leave available per month (pro rata for part-time employees) To see all our excellent benefits and perks, please click here. Stay connected with us on social media to keep up to date with Northumberland County Council's latest job opportunities. Facebook: NCC Jobs Group LinkedIn: Northumberland County Council Jobs