Senior Service Manager - Homeless Sector

Senior Services Manager
Dublin City Centre
Reporting to: Director of Services
Hybrid working with travel to regional services
Salary: €67,652.00 / annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Scope of Responsibility:
This role entails operational responsibility for Depaul Ireland’s ROI services. This person will possess an insight into the strategic and operational issues required to operate services within a low threshold environment. The post holder would have line management responsibility for key members of the management team and would, and as part of the Services department team ensure that Depaul Ireland remains responsive to the needs of marginalised individuals and communities.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
To develop the efficiency and effectiveness of the services.
To take a lead role in conjunction with the Senior Services Team to develop the quality of services within ROI/NI. In Conjunction with the Director of Services and Development to introduce quality frameworks and ensure standards are met.
To undertake line management supervision where appropriate and as agreed within the Services department. Including ensuring their training and development needs are identified and met.
To ensure or deliver supervision to additional Managers that may report to this post on infrastructure reviews.
To be responsible, oversee and ensure good quality for the recruitment, induction, probationary assessments and appraisals of all Managers who report to this post.
To be involved in the recruitment, probationary assessments and annual appraisals of staff working within the projects managed by this post, ensuring that staff are being managed effectively. To capacity build, staff teams.
To work closely with the People & Organisation Development team in achieving organizational aims. To be involved in dealing with disciplinary, grievances and any other individual or collective staffing matters which may arise in the projects, as necessary.
To ensure managers are up-skilled in terms of leadership on a regular basis through both in house and external training.
To promote and ensure there is a high level of service user involvement in the services we provide.
Ensure that there is excellent communication within the project management team and develop and lead the effective running of project management meetings on a monthly basis, or as required.
To attend and, when required, to facilitate / chair regional meetings, attend and support projects' staff meetings and review days, as appropriate.
Monitoring and Review
To be closely involved in drawing up and monitoring of Annual Plans, for individual services, establishing targets and objectives for different projects and in conjunction with the Director of Services and Development co-ordinate this with the Services ROI annual plan.
To ensure there is service review on a regular basis ensuring projects are meeting their aims and objectives.
To develop and promote strategic planning for specific services in ROI and where required develop local strategic vision documents in conjunction with local management teams. These would then go for approval to senior management team.
To ensure projects are monitored and outcomes are reviewed. To further develop information recording and statistical system in conjunction with needs of each client group and the requirements of service stakeholders.
To monitor and analyse incidents and trends within services.
In conjunction with the Director of Services and Development, identify new areas of development for Depaul and to assist in the achievement of the organisational strategic development aims. To draw up operational documents for any new project the post holder will be responsible for.
Policy and Project Development
To develop local service delivery policy and good practice in the running of projects, which are managed by this, post and contribute to this development for Depaul's services department as a whole.
In conjunction with the Director of Service and Development to be cognizant of any policy or service development that may impact on Depaul services across Ireland, to work in strong partnership with other services in ROI.
To carry out project appraisals/audits for any Depaul projects and report the findings to the Director of Services and Development and/or Senior Management Team/Group. To ensure that recommendations for improvements are carried out.
To bring new projects into management consistent with the organisational development plan, led by the CEO and agreed with the Director of Services and Development and the wider senior management team and in conjunction with the respective Senior Services Manager.
To chair specific project development management meetings as required.
In conjunction with the Directors of Finance and Risk ensure that new project budgets are set at appropriate levels and that budgets are managed appropriately and to contribute to the consultative work necessary in order to arrive at feasible budgetary levels.
Led by the CEO and in conjunction with the Senior Management team to arrive at a strategic and operational development plan and individual work plan and to arrive at a clear set of outcomes.
Led by the CEO and consistent with the organisational development plan to assist in identifying new areas of development for Depaul.
In relation to specific development projects to develop service delivery and good practice in the running of projects.
To ensure that any development project fulfils all statutory and best practice requirements in relation to operational health and safety.
To participate in the DPI annual project appraisals/ audits process for any Depaul Projects.
Special Responsibilities
To attend the Senior Service team meetings to assist in the planning and implementation of the senior services plan. To attend the quarterly project manager group meeting.
To attend the Senior Leadership Group (SLG), to report on projects and contribute to the strategic planning and management of the organisation as a whole.
On specific projects determined by the organisational development plan to take a role in conjunction with the services, fundraising and finance departments to project lead grant and funding/tender applications.
To project lead or participate in research needs analysis exercises or information gathering processes as determined by the organisational development plan.
To lead on specific people projects which contribute to overall service delivery and development.
In conjunction with the Director of Services to produce a risk analysis for any new initiative or scheme. This may involve an assessment of financial exposure or risk in conjunction with the Director of Finance.
To ensure that the Senior Leadership Group (SLG) are kept informed of any significant changes to a development, particularly those which might be damaging to the organisation, and are advised on appropriate remedial action.
To work in close liaison and develop excellent lines of communication with the Senior Services Managers in ROI and NI.
To work in conjunction with these managers on specific project issues.
To attend, as required, Board meetings, Sub committees of the Board, Project Managers meetings, Senior Management Group meetings, and other internal meetings as appropriate.
Sector Based Working
To work with the Director of Services and Development on homeless sector developments and promote a continuum of care approach within our services that is reflective of sector priorities.
To represent Depaul externally with a wide range of other voluntary agencies, statutory partners and other funders as agreed with the Director of Services and Development.
To attend key forums, meetings and initiatives within the ROI homeless sector that promote enhanced service provision to our client group including care and case management, specialist homeless groups and the addiction sector.
Finance
To abide by Depaul's Financial Regulations.
To ensure that the projects' budgets are set at appropriate levels and that Managers work within their budgets and take direction from the monthly management accounts.
To ensure there are is good standards around financial systems within local services
To ensure relationships with funders at project levels are maintained and developed. To cases opportunities to develop these relationships further across the diverse services within Depaul.
To ensure opportunities for future funding are explored and to work in partnership with Director of Services and Development in developing services into the future.
To have full appreciation of Depaul’s organizational, financial and sustainability issues.
Special Responsibilities
To report on a monthly basis to the Director of Services and Development when required.
To provide written qualitative and quantitative information on a quarterly basis to the Director of Services and Development which would inform reports to the Service and development committe

Skills
Project Management

Employment type
Permanent

Work arrangement
No