Head of Business Management (Kelvedon Park/Agile Worker)

Location of Role: Kelvedon 

Advert Closing Date: 22/01/2026 

Starting Salary: £63,879.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri 

Weekend/Evening Working: No 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Business Management to provide day-to-day support to the Chief Executive to ensure the efficient and effective discharge of the PFCC’s business and statutory functions and of the Chief Executive’s statutory functions as the Head of Paid Service and Monitoring Officer. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for a range of complex administrative activities, including ensuring the smooth running of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner’s decision-making process.  You will act as the PFCC’s Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO), as well as leading their complaints and public disclosure functions.  You will play a key role in communicating how the PFCC’s vision links to specific plans and objectives so that our staff are motivated, and our partners clearly understand our goals.

You will bring to the role a consistently high level of business planning expertise, along with skills in stakeholder management across a broad range of interested parties. 

Within your reason for application, please provide evidence of the following skills and experience:

Essential:

• Significant experience of operating at management level within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Detailed understanding of legislation relating to information management, including the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 
• Detailed understanding of public sector governance arrangements.
• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills. 
• Excellent skills in work planning, with the ability to prioritise and manage a large and varied workload, to work under pressure and to deadlines. 
• Keen attention to detail, with the ability to work both quickly and accurately to a consistently high standard under pressure.  

Desirable:

• Proven track record of working successfully across organisational boundaries at a strategic level.
• A proficient people manager, able to manage and motivate staff, with the ability and willingness to deal with difficult staffing issues as they arise.

Secondments from other agencies will be considered.

Our Location:

Officers are based at Kelvedon Park, which provides on-site parking. 

The PFCC offers agile working which designates that certain roles can offer flexibility in terms of place of work, including some home working.

For further enquires relating to this opportunity please contact Pippa Brent-Isherwood, Chief Executive and Monitoring Officer (07973 880934)   

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Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.

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• Have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation.
• Are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.

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