Chief Executive's Office

The Chief Executive’s Office provides strategic leadership and corporate guidance to the County Council in its delivery of services; ensuring efficiency and effectiveness and a ‘one organisation’ approach by the Council as it serves the people of County Durham.

Objectives

The Chief Executive’s Office maintains an overview across the Council’s policy making and focuses primarily on the Council’s 5 corporate management objectives, which are:

To promote community involvement and ensure that the aims and actions of the Council are effectively presented and communicated.
To take a leading role in building and supporting partnerships to deliver better services.
To promote economic, social and environmental well-being in the planning and development of services to meet strategic and community needs.
To ensure economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the management of the Council’s resources.
To continually improve the delivery of high quality services and implement innovative solutions to meet changing local needs and community aspirations.

The Chief Executive's Office is organised into 2 complementary divisions - Corporate Policy and Strategic Human Resources. For further information on the teams in each division please use the links below.

All of the teams within the Chief Executive's Office work in support of the 20 year Vision for Dynamic Durham.

Corporate Policy

Strategic Human Resources

Corporate Human Resources seeks to support the Council's aims and values through providing a culture that ensures we can secure, develop and retain competent and motivated workers. Our approach is established around a People Strategy that values the contribution of each person, encourages people to work together constructively and seeks to utilise new ways of working. The actual functions are based around a number of key areas:

Providing guidance and support to Services in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of employment policies, and procedures such as recruitment and health & welfare.
Ensuring that employees within the Council get the right development to ensure skills and behaviours meet the required level of service needs.
Modernising the pay structure to reflect the needs of the organisation while addressing equal pay and reward issues.
Promoting and maintaining the physical, mental and social well-being of our staff.

Contact

Chief Executive's Office
County Hall
Durham
DH1 5UF
Tel: 0191 3834353
Email: Chief Executive's Office