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WORKFORCE

Chief Executive

3 year fixed-term contract.

PEOPLE,
PLACE,
PRIDE,
PERFORMANCE…

…just four of the many attractions of being chief executive in Tower Hamlets, the high-performing urban borough with astonishing diversity, challenges, ideas and energy. It is a borough where local decisions – on housing, regeneration, jobs, education and the environment – resonate across the national political landscape. It presents a truly unique opportunity for an experienced chief executive with the character, resilience and drive to deliver on uncompromising and ambitious priorities.

For further information and a confidential discussion please contact our retained consultants at Penna: Julie Towers on 07764 791736 (email Julie Towers here) or Jonathan Swain on 07500 961727 (email Jonathan Swain here).

Closing date: 27 February 2012.

Visit the council website here.

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Chief executive to leave combined authority

By Martin Ford | 23 September 2026

West Yorkshire Combined Authority chief executive Ben Still has announced his departure after a decade in the role.

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Basildon gets Best Value notice as chief prepares to leave

By Paul Marinko | 15 July 2026

Ministers have issued Basildon BC with a Best Value notice and the Essex authority’s chief executive is preparing to leave and join a London borough.

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New chief executive joins borough

By Martin Ford | 12 March 2026

Andrew Donaldson has taken up the role of permanent chief executive at Halton BC this month.

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Rolling the dice on the May polls

By Jonathan Werran | 04 March 2026

Jonathan Werran considers the scenarios that could emerge from the local elections and says recent events mean Labour faces an ‘unavoidable political massacre’.

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