About Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council (MCC) work with other local and national agencies delivering quality public services, support a productive economy and promote the city of Manchester as a great place to live, work and visit for all people.

Through their Our Manchester strategy, the authority has agreed four behaviours to underpin its passionate approach: Proud, Listen, Own it and Work together. To make their Our Manchester behaviours more meaningful to the workforce, MCC introduced an interactive training experience to take all employees through the journey of the city.

This strategy aims to equip all staff with the knowledge they need to understand the values, and what it means to them in their roles.

Chief Executive Joanne Roney is dedicated to making MCC a great place to work, and was quick to make staff engagement a key priority in her role. During her first week, Joanne launched a blog on the intranet to detail her thoughts and make herself accessible to the wider workforce.

What is it like to work for Manchester City Council

My Manager

75% of staff agreed:

I feel that my manager talks openly and honestly with me

‘Our Manchester’, a ten-year strategy, and a Greater Manchester Leadership Framework have revised how the council develop and support leaders to deliver this vision. Two leadership and management development programmes receive excellent feedback by combining half-day workshops with assessment and diagnostic tools.

75% of staff agreed:

I feel that my manager talks openly and honestly with me

My Team

78% of staff agreed:

People in my team go out of their way to help me

A crowdsourcing tool supports staff engagement and communications for staff in MCC and the NHS as part of health and social care integration, while workshop ideas are shared with staff. Annual Leadership Summits bring together the top 300 managers to deliver key leadership messages.

78% of staff agreed:

People in my team go out of their way to help me

My Company

86% of staff agreed:

I believe I can make a valuable contribution to the success of this organisation

The ‘Our Manchester’ strategy sets out the city’s long-term vision (2016-2025) to be thriving and sustainable, highly skilled, progressive and equitable, liveable and low-carbon, and connected. The vision is for Manchester to be in the top flight of world-class cities by 2025.

86% of staff agreed:

I believe I can make a valuable contribution to the success of this organisation

Learn more about the 8 factors of workplace engagement here

Benefits:

Women

At least 40% of senior managers are women
Gym

Companies offering either free gym/ sports facilities or offering subsidised gym membership for all employees
Pensions

Companies offering a final salary, non-contributory pension scheme to all staff or one in which the employer puts in at least three times
Long Service

50% of employees with more than 5 years' service
Family Friendly

School hours contracts offered to all staff