Organisational structure
As well as our councillors we have officers to carry out the work of the council and deliver services. We're organised into departments with responsibility for different groups of services.
Chief executive and our departments
Our chief executive is Theresa Hodgkinson.
There are 4 directorates for:
- governance
- transformation
- place
- operations.
You can find a senior manager organisational chart in the related documents section of this web page.
Governance
Our Executive Director of governance is Ruth Dennis, who is also the monitoring officer.
Within this directorate are teams with responsibility for:
- Legal
- Democracy
- Audit (shared service)
- Human resources and payroll (shared service).
Transformation
Our Executive Director of transformation is Craig Bonar.
Within this directorate are teams with responsibility for:
- Corporate resources and Section 151
- Digital
- Policy and performance
- revenues and benefits
- customer experience.
Place
Our Executive Director of place is Robert Docherty.
Within this directorate are teams with responsibility for:
- Planning
- Regeneration
- Strategic housing.
Operations
Our Executive Director of operations is Paul Parkinson.
Within this directorate are teams with responsibility for:
- Assets
- Housing management
- Housing operations
- Neighbourhoods.