Information on the Organisation’s Structure

The information provided in the attached gives an overview of Manchester City Council’s organisational structure and key personnel in senior management positions. It should be viewed in conjunction with the Council’s Pay Policy Statement.

The information represents a position on the 1st July 2015 and will be updated periodically.

The subsequent pages include

•	An organisational chart of the agreed structure of the local authority
•	Post titles, salary level and key responsibilities for each senior officer, with salary levels inclusive of any honoraria, pay protection or market rate supplement the individual may be receiving.

All officers named on the organisational chart can be contacted either via telephone on 0161 234 5000 or via email at contact@manchester.gov.uk.

Pay Multiple

The salary multiple between the highest paid officer (the Chief Executive) and
the median rate for all officers, as set out in Manchester City Council’s pay policy statement which was agreed at Council on 6th March 2015, is 8.89:1.

Scope

The information published is accurate and inclusive of all those staff directly employed by Manchester City Council. It does not include:

•	Staff employed by a third party contracted to work for the authority
•	Staff on secondment to the authority, whose rate of pay is not determined by the Authority
•	Staff on secondment from the authority whose rate of pay is not determined by the Authority and whose salary details are published elsewhere
•	All staff working in schools.

Structure Validity

The attached structure is reflective of the organisational structure at 1st July 2015.  

Footnotes from the organisational structure chart

1 These Officers perform additional leadership and statutory officer roles for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. No additional payments are made to individuals for this work. In return for work in relation to the Combined Authority, a contribution is made to the City Council of £50,000 per annum.

2 The duties of this post are currently delivered through a service contract with an ICT provider pending permanent recruitment to the senior structure.

3 This post is currently covered by interim arrangements.

4 This individual is filling this role through acting up arrangements, but not currently drawing the full salary for the role.  This individual is currently remunerated at £81,601.

5 The Deputy City Treasurer reports to the City Treasurer in relation to the leadership of Financial Management and acts as a Deputy to the Section 151 Officer (City Treasurer). The post holder also reports to the Chief Executive in relation to the leadership of Performance, Research and Intelligence. 

6 The post of Head of the Greater Manchester Integrated Support Team is funded by the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and AGMA.

7 The individual in this post works part time hours and therefore does not receive individual remuneration at the same level as the declared 1 FTE salary.

8 This role is part-funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

9 This post is hosted by Manchester City Council and funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

10 This post is hosted by Manchester City Council and jointly funded by Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Police.

11 This post is currently covered through a secondment arrangement from the National Health Service.

12 This post is funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and is part of the GMCA Public Service Reform Team.  It reports to the GMCA’s Strategic Director (Public Service Reform).  It is shown as reporting to a Manchester City Council role for the purposes of illustrating organisational management responsibility for this role.

13 The Director of Core Cities is hosted by Manchester City Council and undertakes work for and is funded equally by all of the Core Cities.

14 This post is funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. 

15 This post reports to the Director of Galleries, employed by the University of Manchester as part of Manchester City Council’s partnership arrangements.  It is shown as reporting to the Strategic Lead (Libraries, Galleries & Culture) as the Director of Galleries is not employed by Manchester City Council.

16 The Head of Civil Contingencies & Resilience is hosted by Manchester City Council and funded by AGMA.

17 This individual is seconded on a full-time basis to Greater Manchester Police.  The role is funded equally by Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Police.

18 This individual is filling this role through acting up arrangements.