Director of Streetscene 

Welcome from the Chief Executive

Thank you for your interest in joining Fareham Borough Council and becoming a member of my newly structured Senior Leadership Team. 

With fairly recent changes to our long standing political and managerial leadership, Fareham has embarked on a new era.  The council has a clear set of priorities set out in its recently refreshed Corporate Strategy (6 MB); continuing our big ambitions for our borough.  We want to hear from talented, committed leaders who share our enthusiasm to make a significant positive impact for our customers.

The Council has a long standing reputation for delivering excellent services to our residents and businesses, thanks to our loyal and hard-working teams, who all share our pride in the borough. Our teams understand what great service is and strive daily to focus on doing the right thing for our customers.

We also have a track record of achieving incredible things with our limited resources; from our recent investment of £20m in the award winning Fareham Live theatre and it's car park, as well as a recently completed £7m investment in leisure and sport facilities, delivering a thriving business park and airport centred around the Solent Enterprise Zone to 6,000 homes, new businesses and supporting infrastructure in one of the UK's only new Garden Villages at Welborne.

We are rightly proud of the glowing feedback (527 KB) we received following a recent Corporate Peer Challenge. Our approach to running the Council was praised, as well as the knowledge, skill and hard work of our officers and Councillors recognised.  Our action plan (70 KB) will help us to focus our efforts for continual improvement to further serve our community.

We have set ourselves equally ambitious and challenging goals over the next six years.  These include:-

• Accelerated housing delivery across the borough now that we have our Local Plan in place. And as a stock-holding Council we are proud to be part of this by developing our biggest pipeline of new council housebuilding in a generation.
• Regenerating our historic town centre with multi million pound investments in community infrastructure and assets.  We have already acquired £14m of assets in the town centre that has kickstart a broader vision for the regeneration of our town centre.
• Transforming streetscene services to extend the opportunities for our residents to recycle.  Implementing wide-reaching service improvements in light of the Environment Act 2021 is a key priority, broadening the range of recyclable materials collected, introducing food waste collections and continuing to promote award winning services for garden and trade waste customers.

We are not just transforming our borough, but we are continuing to transform ourselves as an organisation.  With customers at the heart of what we do, we have built on the supportive culture within our teams to develop the environment where continuous improvement is sought, enabling individuals to make courageous decisions and embracing new ways of working. We recognise that we get the best results working together with our partners, and also by having the best people with a creative, commercial mindset to drive the best possible outcomes for our residents.

The Director of Streetscene will play a critical part in the delivery of this ambitious plan.

We're looking for a highly resilient Director, experienced in leading people across some of our highest profile frontline services, with a track record of delivering continuous improvement and organisational transformation in a complex organisation.  You will need to be well versed in partnership working with the ability to deliver at pace, always with an eye to doing the best for our customers within constrained resources.

We have achieved so much already but we are not complacent - I can honestly say that this it is an incredibly exciting time to join the authority. We are actively and positively working together with our cluster partners to prepare for local government reorganisation in our area which gives an incredible opportunity for you to leave a lasting and positive legacy. Your transformation skills will be invaluable.

If you have the experience, enthusiasm and the vision to make a lasting difference to our borough, I look forward to hearing from you.

Andrew Wannell 

Chief Executive Officer