Overview
Salary: £42403 – £49498
Shift hours: 37
Coventry Children’s Services has successfully secured Department for Education funding up to March 2025 to develop their Family Hubs and early help offer to children and families.
To support this work, the Senior Commissioning Officer will provide commissioning expertise to the project, contributing to needs analysis, developing service specifications, carrying out procurement activity to award contracts, and service monitoring and evaluation.
You will need to work across Council services, working with managers and colleagues in Early Help, Public Health, Joint Commissioning, Procurement/Legal, Education, external partners in Health, different service providers and critically, children and families to develop provision to meet their needs.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop good commissioning practice in Early Help services and contribute to this family support and early years work at the forefront of the Government agenda and to make a real difference in the lives of children and families in Coventry.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
You will be experienced in commissioning services, preferably in a local authority context and understand the steps required to put contractual arrangements in place, to monitor and evaluate outcomes with providers and partner agencies.
You will have skills in building positive working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, able to offer high support as well as high challenge to get services that are value for money and good quality.
You will have good organisational skills to manage priorities flexibly, working to different managers in different parts of the service e.g. reporting progress to the project manager and Early Help lead manager responsible for the project. Data analysis, report writing, budget management, organisational and financial planning skills are essential.
You will be enthusiastic about working to ensure the right services are available at the right time for the children and families in Coventry who need them.
As this is a fixed-term post for 12 months, requests for secondment internally or from partner agencies will be considered with support from your manager or employer.
For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Bridget Atkins – bridget.atkins@coventry.gov.uk
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For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’
Interview date: 9th or 10th May
Reference: coventrycc/TP/64217/9453
