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Chief Executive - Carlisle City Council

Are you an exceptional leader who can inspire and motivate us to fulfil our challenging ambitions?

The historic city of Carlisle, the sub regional capital, is a great place to live, work and visit. It also has many challenges.

You will provide inspirational strategic leadership in an increasingly challenging environment and will have the ability to motivate others to develop innovative and effective ways of delivering improved services that meet the expectations of our communities.

If you are a strong visible leader and have a proven track record of driving economic growth, complex change, performance improvement and engaging external partners, this could be your next professional challenge.

For further details and an application pack returnable by 19 October 2011

Visit: www.carlisle.gov.uk or email: vacancies@carlisle.gov.uk or phone us on: 01228 817080 (24 hour answerphone) quoting the post number V1479

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