Executive Team - Career Profiles

Tameside Council Executive Team

Areas of Responsibility

April 2011

	Steven Pleasant Chief Executive Steven is Chief Executive at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. He has an MSc from Cranfield Institute of Technology and in his early career worked as a town planner after graduating as a Master of Civic Design from Liverpool University. He has spent much of his local government career managing Corporate Services. His areas of lead responsibility include community safety, emergency planning, the local strategic partnership and LAA, community consultation and engagement, performance management and improvement, equalities, scrutiny and procurement. Steven has been 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 6 successful Beacon awards. In March 2010 Steven led the organisation working with its partners in being awarded the ‘Local Innovation Award for Building Economic Resilience’, the only local authority in the country to receive this award. The award recognises the particularly strong partnership with the third sector and engagement with communities which is supported by a comprehensive delivery strategy. The work also demonstrates outstanding business and community involvement that has proved to be extremely proactive in dealing with the recession issues in the locality. Steven was Lead Officer for the North West Centre of Excellence for 3 years and took a leading role in the development of the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership (RIEP). He is now the chair of the North West e-Government Group (NWeGG) which has been successfully supporting public service improvement and transformation across the North West region for the last 9 years. He is also the lead Chief Executive, on behalf of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities, on Civil Contingencies.
	Jim Taylor Executive Director, Children, Learning and Economic Services Jim Taylor is currently Tameside’s Director of Children’s Services. Jim joined local government in Tameside in 2004 as Assistant Executive Director for Lifelong Learning. Following the introduction of Children’s Services, Jim, as Director of Education had responsibility for all aspects of the strategic and operational education services in Tameside. He was appointed DCS in 2008. Prior to working in local government, Jim started his career as a Teacher of Mathematics and has since worked in 5 schools in five different LAs, holding various management responsibilities. Jim was a core member of the National Working Party to develop Standards for Headteachers and also piloted the NPQH during the development of the qualification. He was a Headteacher for seven years in an inner city High School in which time the school achieved Beacon status, School Achievement Awards and Science Specialist Status. Jim has a rich and varied history of working with young people (he has five of his own) and is committed to children achieving their potential.
	Stephanie Butterworth Executive Director, Community, Environment, Adults & Health Services Stephanie has worked at the Council since 2003 and has held a variety of management roles, most recently as Executive Director, Community Services. Stephanie has also previously been employed in a Joint Post with the Council and Tameside and Glossop PCT. Stephanie started her career in Nursing and worked across a number of acute, community and public health settings, with adults and children. Stephanie’s current role includes the statutory DASS role and she also has responsibility for the Council’s Customer and Cultural Services, Environmental Services and District Assemblies. She is also the Council’s lead for health improvement and the reduction of health inequalities in partnership with the Director of Public Health from NHS Tameside and Glossop. Stephanie is a member of the Association of Directors of Social Services and is involved with the regional work addressing changes to NHS services.
	Sandra Stewart Borough Solicitor, Executive Director of Governance 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.
	Pam Williams Borough Treasurer, Executive Director of Finance Pam joined Tameside 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 qualified as an accountant and became a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).. She then held various posts with a variety of Councils and during this time she achieved membership of the Chartered Management Institute and SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives). As Director of Finance, Pam is the Council’s statutory Section 151 officer and is responsible for the Finance, Exchequer and ICT functions. These include Accountancy and Treasury Management, Greater Manchester Pension Fund Statement of Accounts, Procurement, Risk Management, Audit and Insurance, Council Tax, Income, Creditors, Business Rates, Benefits, Adults Financial Assessments, Bailiffs, Benefit Investigations, Visiting Officers, Cashiers, Payroll, ICT infrastructure and systems management, and ICT frontline services and technologies. Pam is a member of the Greater Manchester Association of Metropolitan Treasurers; Treasurer to North West Employers organisation; a member of, and Honorary Auditor to, the Society of Municipal Treasurers.
	Peter Morris Executive 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 20 years. As manager of the Fund he is responsible for both the pension administration and investment activities. The Greater Manchester Pension Fund has over 250,000 members and assets of around £10bn. Peter is 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 facing the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).