Head of Delivery and Performance

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce, and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

Hounslow Council is seeking to recruit a dynamic and motivated Head of Delivery and Performance to join its Regeneration and Economic Growth division, part of the Placemaking and Growth directorate. As Head of Delivery and Performance, you’ll lead the service working across the division, providing clear programme direction and ensuring the effective performance management of regeneration and economic development projects and programmes. You’ll need to be able to lead this team and work with senior leaders through to project managers to support the effective management, development, delivery, and impact measurement of regeneration and growth across the borough.

You will lead the development and management of complex budgets, formal reporting, track financial and performance progress, and provide assurance to the Executive Director, Director, and Assistant Directors of Regeneration and Economic Growth of the status of their programme of works. You will help the Council build on lessons learnt from projects, identify innovative approaches to address challenges and deliver improved outcomes for residents.

You’ll come with substantial programme/portfolio management experience including a clear understanding of financial management of regeneration and housing programmes and expertise dealing with complex budgets and reporting. You will have a broad knowledge of the housing and regeneration sectors.

Whilst a background in housing and regeneration is desirable it is not essential, as we are keen to recruit a Head of Service with a wide range of skills and experiences, and critically, an excellent ability to identify problems and find solutions working with a range of stakeholders.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

Hounslow Council’s A Fairer Future Corporate Plan (2026-36) is focused on supporting residents and vibrant, sustainable communities that harness the full potential of our borough. Through strategic regeneration, from Feltham and Hounslow to the ‘Golden Mile’ and Brentford, we are unlocking opportunities, attracting investment, and creating thousands of new homes and jobs.

This is about turning challenges into opportunities, ensuring Hounslow stands as a beacon of inclusive and sustainable growth aligned with government agendas. We're looking for passionate individuals to join us in this journey. Be part of our mission to make Hounslow borough a place where everyone can thrive. Embrace the chance to affect real change and grow with a leading council dedicated to community and innovation.

This is an opportunity to be part of Hounslow’s next chapter, shaping a borough where investment, identity, opportunity and community pride come together.

Our challenge? Ensuring that regeneration and economic growth benefit all residents, creating opportunities that transform lives. We’re looking for an ambitious and creative professional to lead our Delivery and Performance team, who shares our commitment to inclusive growth and community impact.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

1. You are able to lead and manage the Delivery and Performance team to ensure the team is delivering against all key objectives and KPIs, including further developing and reporting against the Return on Investment framework.

2. You have experience of developing, managing and monitoring complex funding programmes and complex budgets that deliver regeneration and economic growth, working with senior service and Finance leads.

3. You can manage the overall Regeneration and Economic Growth project portfolio, including supporting the prioritisation of projects against strategic alignment, expected impact and available resources. Responsible for proactively identifying solutions to risks and issues across the portfolio, working with other services and external partners (e.g. funding bodies), escalating as appropriate.

4. You are a subject matter expert and key point of contact for the division (and more widely) on regeneration and growth, programme and project management, governance, funding and finance matters.

5. You can lead and manage the reviewing of and the updating of service delivery and project planning, management, governance and reporting templates and tools, in line with corporate guidelines, and ensuring compliance.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Liz.Skelland@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held week commencing 16th November 2026.