Streetpride Assistant Area Manager

The Streetpride Service is Coventry City Council's Street Cleansing and Grounds Maintenance Service. It has a responsibility and statutory duty to keep the City clean, green, and attractive for all.

Keeping the City clean and green is a huge challenge and not one we can do on our own. The service is delivered by a flexible, locally committed workforce who work well with the different residents, communities and partners, ensuring a One Coventry approach by enabling people to do more for themselves.

The service operates out of three strategically located sites in the city and provides a cleansing service seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.

We currently clean 10’000 miles of road network each year and empty over 3’000 street litter bins each week.

The service is also responsible for delivering Grounds Maintenance works across all of our highway network and Parks and Open Spaces, including 5 of our Green Flag Parks and cuts approximately 6 million square metres of grass every 20 working days. That is the equivalent of cutting nearly one thousand football pitches.

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

We are seeking a highly capable and motivated individual to lead the operational delivery of Streetscene services across the city and support the Strategic Streetpride Manager in shaping a cleaner, greener, better Coventry.

Your will be responsible for the effective management of street cleansing, grounds maintenance and associated public realm functions, ensuring the consistent achievement of service standards.

The role requires the translation of strategic priorities into operational plans, effective resource deployment, and robust performance management. The postholder will contribute to the development of service level agreements, provide technical and operational advice, and support continuous improvement through service review and data‑driven decision‑making.

You will work collaboratively with internal and external partners, elected members and community stakeholders to address local priorities.

Responsibilities also include budget management, compliance with health and safety requirements, staff leadership, supporting continuous improvement and helping set medium and long‑term service standards.

If you’re a proactive, collaborative leader with a passion for high‑quality public spaces, we’d love to hear from you.

You will bring:

• Proven leadership experience in operational service delivery, ideally in a public realm, environmental or neighbourhood services setting.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to turn priorities into practical, deliverable plans.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with communities, partners and elected members.
• A commitment to high standards, continuous improvement and customer-focused service.
• Experience managing budgets, resources and performance in a complex operational environment.
• A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused approach

Within our team, women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented across our middle-management team; as a result, we would like to encourage both women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds to apply for this post. This does not prevent any other applicants, with or without a protected characteristic, from applying.

For an informal conversation about this challenging and rewarding role, please contact Samantha Morris – Strategic Manager, Streetpride 024 7697 7147

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date(s): 5th May & 6th May 2026

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies