Prevention Delivery Manager
Birmingham City Council
Prevention Delivery Manager
Permanent
Grade 6 - £54,495- £64,811
Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review
Working 36.5 hours per week
Birmingham City Council is on an ambitious journey to become a truly early intervention and prevention–focused organisation. We’re looking for a strategic, delivery-driven Prevention Delivery Manager to help turn that ambition into reality.
This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll shape services, drive transformation, and improve outcomes for residents by reducing avoidable demand and embedding a proactive, preventative approach across our
About the role
As Prevention Delivery Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing and delivering the Council’s Early Intervention & Prevention (EI&P) priorities.
Working through matrix management, you’ll lead complex service redesign and improvement programmes, collaborating across teams, departments and external partners to deliver sustainable, resident-focused services.
You’ll work closely with senior leaders to:
- Lead and deliver service improvement and transformation initiatives
- Embed early intervention and prevention approaches across operational services
- Drive cultural change towards proactive, outcomes-focused delivery
- Use data and insight to inform decisions and track benefits realisation
- Support the development of integrated, locality-based delivery models
- Co-design inclusive and accessible services with communities and partners
- Contribute to both digital and face-to-face service innovation
- Identify and secure external funding to strengthen and grow services
At the heart of this role is a commitment to better outcomes for Birmingham’s diverse communities.
About you:
You’ll be a confident and credible leader who thrives in complex environments and brings people with you through change. You’ll have:
- Degree-level (or equivalent) education
- A strong understanding of the statutory, regulatory and political context of local government
- Proven experience leading significant transformation and change programmes
- A successful track record of designing and managing outcome‑focused performance frameworks
Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment
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
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.
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: 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.
Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy | Birmingham City Council here.