Service Manager – Street Scene job with Sheffield City Council

He works for Sheffield City Council

As one of Sheffield’s largest employers with over 7,000 employees, we aim to recruit and develop people who share our passion for Sheffield. If you work for us, you’ll be part of a team that delivers a wide range of services to our 574,000 residents, businesses large and small, and our many visitors to the city.

The Street Scene Service Manager is an exciting opportunity for you to lead and develop a new approach to managing our city street scene. Our vision is to ensure that we bring all streetscene services together for the benefit of our customers.

In Sheffield we want everyone to have a great neighborhood that people are happy to call home. We provide high-quality, clean, green, resilient and safe neighborhoods where people can live healthy lives. To achieve this, we work as one team for Sheffield to meet the challenges and engage local people to improve our services and quality of life in our city.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced professional with experience in street scene management, with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to lead partners, the voluntary sector and other key stakeholders to deliver united services focused on the needs of our local communities .

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate innovation in developing improvements in street scene management and work with our communities to make the most of local strengths to deliver sustainable results and improvements.

You will directly manage a team that already manages venues in the city centre, however in all other areas of the city you will lead the council’s approach to solving street scene issues by working with teams not directly under your leadership.

You will create a ‘Team around the Place’ approach through excellent leadership and negotiation skills, working with services such as. Highways, waste, local councils, parks, housing, South Yorkshire Police and voluntary groups.

So if you are a strategic thinker who can work with partners and stakeholders to develop and deliver new ways of working to achieve the best for our communities, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Additional information is included to enable you to be aware of the scale of our ambition and the strategic ambitions you will help us achieve:

We are ambitious

Our Council vision is for Sheffield to flourish as a modern, socially and environmentally equitable city with great opportunity and wellbeing for everyone.

Our priorities are to empower people and businesses to thrive, build sustainability in all areas of life and keep Sheffield’s diverse communities at the heart of all our plans.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy sets out our equality commitments to the people of Sheffield and our staff and how we will deliver them.

We are a Local Council, where we invest for the future. This includes investing in the skills and capabilities of our workforce and attracting new talent to deliver for Sheffield and ensure our people reflect the city we serve.

We invest in our workforce and promote opportunities for our underrepresented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly black, Asian, minority ethnic, disabled and LGBTQ+, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We also support staff with unpaid care responsibilities to work flexibly.


It’s a great time to join us and we look forward to your application.


Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of this job are guaranteed an interview.


Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks a year and we offer generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussing a range of flexible working opportunities that benefit you and the Council, including reduced hours contracts, part-time work or as a shared workplace.


If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the final grade. If you provide proof of pay that your base pay is higher than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the minimum advantage point within the grade.

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