Suffolk County Council is seeking a Commissioning and Contracts Support Officer. We’re passionate about improving the future for children and families. If you are too, join us in this role.
Your enthusiasm, innovation, and drive will help us to continue making a meaningful impact and improve services for some of our most vulnerable children.
Your role and responsibilities
You will be responsible for ensuring that administrative and project-related support is provided to commissioning, contracts, and home finding teams. This will include all elements of the commissioning cycle and home finding process; the service design, market development, procurement, contract management, brokerage, and placement making.
This post will report to and deputise for the Senior Contracts and Service Development Officer. The post will be a strong operational and administrative support in ensuring services are monitored for financial viability, quality, and cost. This will also include delivering savings where relevant. In addition, the post will support efficiency in the home finding services, focusing on improving processes and strengthening current support.
You will need
* Excellent administrative skills to ensure effective and reliable support to the team.
* The ability to foster open and honest relationships with both internal and external partners, contributing to team success and driving service improvements.
* Good IT skills across a range of programmes/systems including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
* The ability to work under pressure and a willingness to learn.
About the team
The Strategic Commissioning and Home Finding team operate in a dynamic and pressured environment. The teams need to be agile, balancing workload between commissioning activity, finding homes for children in care, and routine and methodical management of contracts, whilst being sufficiently flexible and agile to respond rapidly to opportunities and challenges presented by the local market.
What we offer
In return, you’ll enjoy up to 29 days annual leave entitlement (pro rata), plus UK bank holidays and two paid volunteering days, membership of a competitive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), travel, lifestyle, health, and wellbeing benefits, performance-related annual pay progression, in addition to an annual cost-of-living pay increase, training, and encouragement to expand your knowledge, a variety of career development opportunities across our organisation, diverse and active staff networks, flexible working options, with the right to request flexible working from your first day.
How to apply
1. Read the Job and Person Profile (JPP) (Word).
2. Click ‘Apply Now’ to start your online application.
3. Upload a supporting statement answering the given questions (no more than 400 words per question). You should use the Supporting Statement template.
4. Upload a CV (without name and personal details).
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