Project Officer

Location

Bury, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Post Title: Project Officer ( National Wrap around childcare programme)

Team: Early Years Team

A vacancy for a Project Officer has arisen to support the National Wrap Around Childcare Programme. This is a fixed term post for 3 years based within the Early Years Team.

1 full time vacancy working 37 hours per week.

Purpose and Objectives of the post:

· To effectively project manage and lead on key projects and work programmes across the Early Help Division.

· To support the delivery of Departmental priorities and strategies.

· To undertake specific projects, research, analysis and produce reports on behalf of the Assistant Director and Management Team.

· To support delivery of the Quality Assurance Framework (or assurance mechanisms) to enable progress on improvement to be evidenced

· To liaise with stakeholders within and outside of the Council to support the above

You will be part of a skilled, friendly and supportive team and work closely with a wide range of professionals.

The Project Officer is required to:

· Lead on the delivery of specific programmes linked to key priorities, including the scoping, planning, implementation and review of work programmes both within the Council and within GM.

· To review and report on the delivery of workstreams and projects to Senior Leadership

· To produce briefings, presentations and formal reports appropriate for the identified target audiences including JET, Scrutiny, Council and Lead Member briefings.

· To support relationships and co-production across the Partnerships and voluntary sector in Bury in respect of services provided to Children and Young People.

You must have;

· Graduate level qualification or equivalent substantial experience

· Project Management Qualification (or significant experience of project management and willingness to achieve a relevant agreed qualification)

· Proven ability to influence, negotiate, and develop joint objectives with stakeholders and senior decision makers, and collaboratively achieving these objectives through effective relationship management.

· Experience of multi-agency working

· Experience of working in a programme / project management environment

· Experience of risk management and ensuring delivery against identified objectives and milestones.

· Experience of working in a high-pressured environment using initiative and managing and prioritising workloads within strict deadlines and timescales

· Relevant skills and experience including keyboard skills, accuracy and speed; IT skills and extensive use of all aspects of Microsoft Office

· Ability to design, write, summarise and produce excellent quality and accurate documents, eg letters, minutes, presentations and reports

· Emotionally resilient with proven ability to deal with sensitive and upsetting situations / people.

You will report directly to the Early Years Service Manager:

Collette Radcliffe

Dependent on service requirements, some evening and weekend work may occasionally be required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

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Employee Benefits include:

- Local Government Pension Scheme.

- A range of attractive work/life balance policies in place together with a number of employee benefit and health and wellbeing offers including employee assistance programme.

-25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days’ after 5 years

- Fantastic training and development opportunities

We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

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Salary

£36.65k per annum