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Steven Pleasant
Deputy Chief Executive
Steven has spent much of his local government career managing Corporate Services within councils. His areas of lead responsibility include community safety, the local strategic partnership and LAA, community consultation and engagement, performance management and improvement, equalities, scrutiny and procurement.
Steven is involved in mentoring with a range of councils on such issues as performance management, local strategic partnerships, area assemblies, the operation of scrutiny and local public area agreements. He has performed a lead role in 5 successful beacon awards.
Steven has been Lead Officer for the North West Regional Centre of Excellence for the past 3 years and has now taken on the leading role in the development of the new Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP), which replaces it from April.
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Jim Taylor
Executive Director, Services for Children and Young People
Jim Taylor has been appointed as Executive Director for Children’s Services at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council.
Jim joined Tameside Council in 2004 and has been an Assistant Executive Director for Lifelong Learning and until recently was Director of Education for Services for Children and Young People.
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Alison Ashworth
Executive Director, Economy and Environment
Alison has worked in Tameside since 1984, in a wide variety of roles and departments including Education, Leisure Services, Personnel, and Economic Development and Property Services.
She represents the Council on the Team Manchester Economic Development Leads group, supporting the emerging Greater Manchester Economic and Skills Commission.
Alison has previously been a director of a number of economic regeneration companies, and is also now involved with Cancer Network UK, and with the Christie Hospital Improvement Steering Group.
She has a qualification in Library and Information Science and a Masters Degree in Strategic Management.
Alison's responsibilities include technical and development services across the council from planning and economic development, housing and community regeneration, to engineering and environmental health services, architectural, assets and facilities management services.
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Pam Williams
Assistant Chief Executive, Borough Treasurer
Pam joined Tameside as Borough Treasurer in July 2007. Born and educated in Shropshire, she went on to university in Swansea, where she obtained an Honours degree in Economics.
She began her local government career with North Shropshire District Council, where she studied for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) qualification, in 1989.
She then held various posts with Dover, Breckland and Burnley Councils, and latterly as Director of Corporate Services with Ellesmere Port and Neston Council. During this time she also achieved membership of the Chartered Management Institute and SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives).
As Borough Treasurer, Pam is responsible for the council's finances including accountancy and treasury management, risk management/audit and insurance.
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Peter Morris
Director of Pensions
The Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) is administered by Tameside Council and Peter, an accountant by training and has worked within the Pension Fund for the last 18 years.
As manager of the fund he is responsible for the pension office, investments, property investments, accountancy and fund legalities. The Greater Manchester Pension Fund has over 240,000 members and assets of over £9bn.
Peter is a member of CPFA, a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; elected member of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) Investment Council and a member of CLG's Policy Review Group that looks at major issues for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
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Mirriam Lawton
Assistant Chief Executive, People and Performance
Mirriam joined the council in April 1979. She sits on a number of regional and national bodies including the National People Management Forum; PPMA/Technical Advisor NW Employers Organisational HR Committee.
Mirriam is Chair of the AGMA Organisational Development, AGMA Strategic HR Group; NW Strategic HR Group. Responsibilities include human resources; organisational development; occupational health and safety.
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Sandra Stewart
Assistant Chief Executive, Borough Solicitor
Sandra has been the Council's Borough Solicitor and Statutory Monitoring Officer since 2003 and joined Tameside in 1994 as a trainee Solicitor.
She has a BSc Joint Hons in Mathematics and Physics ( Manchester) and qualified as a Solicitor in September 1996.
She is a member of the Law Society AGMA District Secretaries and the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors
Sandra is the council's most senior lawyer, is the Council's Data Protection Officer and is the Solicitor to the Pension Fund. She is also responsible for the Registrar Service and Democratic Services.
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Megan Nurse
Assistant Chief Executive, Policy and Performance
Megan joined Tameside Council in 2002 as Head of Policy before taking up her current role in 2006. Megan spent her early career at Hyndburn Council where she worked in a variety of policy roles, before becoming a Deputy Director at Greater Manchester Police.
Megan has a BA in Politics from Leeds University, a PgDip in Journalism from City University - where she was sponsored by the Guardian Newspaper, and worked as a lecturer on the politics degree programme at Luton University while working on a PhD. She has completed the IDeA Top Managers Programme, and two years of an MBA at Manchester Metropolitan University.
As Assistant Chief Executive for Policy and Performance she is responsible for Policy, Scrutiny, Procurement and Marketing and Communications.
Her role includes overseeing inspections, the Tameside Strategic Partnership, the Local Area Agreement, the Corporate Plan and Community Strategy, consultation and research, championing equalities, internal and external communications, corporate procurement and support to the scrutiny committees.
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Tim Rainey
Assistant Chief Executive, ICT and Transformational Services
Tim Rainey has worked at Tameside Council for 20 years. Alongside the more traditional ICT responsibilities he is also responsible for the councils wide ranging Transformation Programme and the ongoing development of the council's customer services strategy.
Tim is involved in a number of high-profile Government-funded projects including;
- Government Connect, where the council is working with partners including the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP), Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and Department for Children, Families and Schools (DCSF) to develop a national secure infrastructure for Local Government.
- Face to Face work stream of the Delivery Council which Tameside along with IDEA, DWP and HMRC are looking to rationalise the government high street presence through the use of front office shared services
- Free Schools project which has looked to improve access to benefits, speeding up and simplifying the application process which in turn increases take-up, customer satisfaction and reduces transaction costs.
Tim is also a local government representative on a number of national working groups including the Chief Technical Officers Council, Contact Council and the Local Government Chief Information Officers Council.
He also supports the Chief Executive in her roles as Chair of the Local Government Delivery Council and North West eGovernment Group.
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The Chief Executive, Janet Callender, is the most senior of the Council's employees. As 'head of the paid service' she has overall responsibility for management of the Council's staff, services and operations in line with the policies and priorities set by the Leader and elected Members. She leads and manages the Council's workforce of approximately 9,000 employees and is responsible for a net revenue budget of £325 million and a capital budget of £64 million.