Glasgow City Council
Role Profile Description
Date January 2006
Family Business Support
Role profile Level Number 4
Reporting line (general)
Purpose
To organise and control complex areas of work and support business delivery.
Work area statement
Action End Result
Business Guidance
Provide expert specialist advice to internal • Provision of appropriate information and
customers and external partners. recommendations
• Informed decisions and actions taken by
internal customer
• Legislative and procedural compliance
Projects
Organise and control operational delivery of • Delivery of project objectives to
projects or initiatives including deployment specification, time and cost
and planning of resources.
Guide and supervise project team members • Quality of project work
in the specialist methods and techniques. • Technical development of staff
Business Service Delivery
Control and organise complex service advice • Policy interpretation and application
and/or delivery to support business needs. • Provision of business services
Resource management
Control and organise delegated resources. • Proper and effective application of
resources
• Meeting of KPIs
Reports
Produce bespoke and complex reports for • Current and relevant information is
senior management. prepared
• Management and Committee decisions
are informed
Continuous improvement
Review process and make recommendations • Efficient service delivery
for necessary improvements. • Cost reductions
Relationships
Represent own function across services • Awareness of purpose, services and
internally. requirements of function
• Co-operation between functions is
promoted
• Activities and actions of other functions
consider own functions needs.
Compliance
Ensure compliance and proper committee • Legislative and procedural compliance
decision-making procedures are followed • Work produced is to required standard
within Council; check quality of work
produced by others.
Commercial
Perform high value transactions and • Delivery of Council decisions
negotiate external contracts on behalf of the • Best value contracts
Council. • Sound terms and conditions
• Clarity of roles for all parties
• Legislative and procedural compliance
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Nature of contacts and relationship (who and the nature of the communications)
Support and work directly with senior management.
Work in partnership with external agencies.
Represent function operationally across services and externally.
Working Environment Context (disruption, physical, disagreeable, health and safety
aspects)
Office or public building based.
Procedural Context (creativity, discretion, impact)
Responsible for operational and project decisions (contained risk and moderate impact).
Provision of expert advice and bespoke interventions with senior management.
Key facts and figure ranges (include likely size of any team managed)
No staff management.
Likely to involve limited control and planning of financial project resources.
Skills, knowledge and qualifications
Formal qualifications required. Essential and generally preferred
Relevant degree preferable or equivalent experience.
Professional accreditation desirable or essential.
Work knowledge
Function specific technical, professional and legislative knowledge.
Working knowledge of relevant systems, procedures and regulations.
Work skills and equipment operated
Working knowledge of relevant software and hardware.
Project management skills.
IT literacy.
Key Competency Requirement
Competency Level
1 Personal Effectiveness – Decision Making 2
2 Providing Excellent Customer Service - Customer Orientation 2
3 Providing Excellent Customer Service - Forward Thinking 2
4 Delivering Results – Planning 1
5 Personal Effectiveness – Communicating 2
6 Personal Effectiveness - Influencing 2
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