Senior Contracts Officer | 10439 | permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | Up to £48,227 per annum (2026/27 Pay Award Pending) | Grade K | Norwich – hybrid working
Senior Contracts Officer, Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH), Primary Care & Healthy Lifestyles
(Advanced Performance & Assurance Officer)
Our Public Health service is dedicated to achieving Norfolk County Council’s vision for Norfolk to be the place where everyone can start life well, live well, and age well; where no one is left behind. Our transformation agenda is a key County Council priority focused on prevention, reducing health inequalities and influencing healthy public policy.
As the Senior Contracts Officer, you will work alongside the Public Health Principal Performance & Assurance and commissioner colleagues, to drive forward high quality, evidence led and good practice focused services that achieve beneficial outcomes whilst meeting legislative and statutory requirements. In doing so, you’ll help to ensure provisions that offer value for money for the population of Norfolk.
You will have good knowledge of commissioning as a function, stakeholder engagement as well as material experience of contract management and performance management of services. You will need to evidence your commercial awareness and/or expertise in managing projects.
You’ll be able to evidence your ability to manage relationships and negotiate with current and potential providers to ensure the delivery of agreed outcomes and value for money. You will come to us with excellent communication skills developed through partnership working with a range of stakeholders.
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
* Competitive salary
* Generous holiday entitlement
* Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
* Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
* Financial benefits such as ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
* A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
* Relocation expenses (where applicable)
* An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
* Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
* Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
* Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
* A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job
Redeployment closing date: 17 May 2026
All other applicants closing date: 25 May 2026
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