Head of Business Partnering & Innovation

Head of Business Partnering & Innovation – Find Yourself in Hackney Skip to content Find Yourself in Hackney jobs and careers Menu Home Job search Leadership Opportunities Our Council Hackney Council and the Borough Join Hackney’s Transformation Team Join Hackney’s ICT Service Join Hackney’s Adult Services Join Children and Families Services Rebuilding a better Hackney Our Values What we offer Where we work Apprenticeships and Placements Management Trainee Programme Apprenticeships Apprenticeship Blog Placements Free job-finding support Find Yourself in Hackney > Job search > Head of Business Partnering & Innovation Head of Business Partnering & Innovation Send this job to a friend Print this page Recruitment privacy notice Job details Salary - Grade GBP £82,797 to £86,121 82797 - PO15 Contract Type Permanent Contracted Hours Full Time - 36 hours per week DBS Required No Department Finance & Corporate Resources Service ICT Closing date 11/10/2026 Apply Now Hackney is one of the most dynamic and progressive local authorities in the UK. We are a resilient, vibrant, and creative borough in the heart of London, with strong, diverse communities and a powerful set of shared values. Over the past twenty years, the Council has built up first-class services, outstanding public infrastructure, and a reputation for excellence, innovation, and ambition. We are leading the way on essential work such as our fight for equity in Hackney with a particular focus on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. But the work doesn’t stop there, we are proactive in our approach to bringing fairness to all aspects of life including gender, neurodiversity and across the poverty divide. Hackney Council is looking for an outstanding strategic leader to transform how organisational needs are understood, investment is prioritised and ideas are turned into sustainable improvements for residents. As Head of Business Partnering & Innovation, you will connect services across the Council with the digital, data and technology capabilities needed to solve complex problems and deliver measurable public value. You will lead an integrated function covering strategic business partnering, portfolio and demand management, business analysis, project and delivery leadership, user adoption, benefits realisation, innovation and horizon scanning. This is much more than a relationship-management role. You will create a trusted, coherent route through which services can define their challenges, test assumptions, explore opportunities and develop credible proposals for change. You will ensure the Council focuses its limited resources on the problems and opportunities that will make the greatest difference to residents and the organisation. Working with senior leaders and elected Members, you will establish a transparent enterprise approach to assessing and prioritising demand. You will provide constructive challenge where proposals are poorly defined, duplicative, solution-led or unlikely to deliver sufficient value. You will also have the confidence to recommend that activity is paused, redirected or stopped when the evidence no longer supports continued investment. A central part of the role will be improving how change is delivered and sustained. You will establish professional standards for business analysis, delivery, organisational readiness, adoption and benefits realisation. You will ensure new services and capabilities are not simply launched, but are understood, used, owned and continuously improved. You will lead Hackney’s approach to practical and responsible innovation. This will involve identifying relevant developments in technology, policy and professional practice; creating safe ways to test promising ideas; and turning successful experiments into scalable, sustainable services. Innovation must respond to clearly defined needs, produce evidence and deliver meaningful value, rather than becoming a collection of disconnected pilots. We ne