Hours: 37 per week Salary: Grade 11 (£47,181.00 - £50,269.00) Location: Dudley Council. Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley. DY5 1LW Closing Date: Monday 22nd December 2025. Advert Text: Dudley Council has the highest ambitions for our children and young people. Our vision is to give children the best start in life and to support families to be independent, responsible and successful and to ensure we provide the highest levels of public protection for our most vulnerable children. Revitalised council leadership arrangements are now in place, and we have accelerated our efforts to support and strengthen the services we deliver to children and families. We have made significant strides to understand ourselves better and we now know exactly where we want to be and what work needs to be done to deliver on our ambitions. With an initial £1 million investment from Cabinet, we have initiated a transformation programme to improve every aspect of our vision, partnership and corporate commitment to the services we deliver to children. Effective evidence and outcomes - based commissioning has a crucial role within this transformation programme. Longer-term improvements to children’s outcomes can only be achieved through securing effective services that are designed and delivered through an integrated approach that responds clearly to the needs of children and young people. Dudley Council is therefore seeking to expand its Children’s Commissioning resource to ensure that innovation and transformation can be delivered at pace whilst ensuring continued delivery of safe, high quality and efficient services. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children; therefore, the post is subject to medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check. NB. We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to their advertised date if we receive a large number of applications. Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy. If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application or have experienced a problem whilst applying for a position, please contact the HR Resourcing Team on 01384 811300 (option 1) or via e-mail to HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk. Online facilities to apply for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough. For more information, or for an informal discussion around this vacancy, please contact Emma Dixon on 01384 813861 or via email emma.dixon@dudley.gov.uk Interviews for this post will be held on Wednesday 7th January 2026. The Council will check the information that you have provided against any details already held for accuracy and completeness. The Council will check, share and cross match your information both internally within the council and with external organisations to protect public funds and prevent or detect crime, only where the law allows us to do so. The Council’s full Privacy and Disclaimer Statement can be accessed on the website at www.dudley.gov.uk Workplace Attendance: Working in the office 3 days a week (pro-rata) or Onsite full time So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application. Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy, online facilities for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough. All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK. Please note: Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK. If you require support completing an online or paper application form and or interview techniques, please contact Dudley Adult and Community Learning on 01384 818 143 or acl@dudley.gov.uk who can support with Digital Skills and Job Applications. If you have a disability and require assistance in making an application please contact the HR Resourcing Team via HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk If you are experiencing a problem whilst applying for a position, please follow the link below to the WM Jobs Help Page in the first instance https://help.wmjobs.co.uk/ If the WM Jobs Help Page does not resolve your issue then please contact the HR Resourcing Team via HR.Resourcing@dudley.gov.uk Dudley Council will check the information that you have provided against any details already held for accuracy and completeness. The Council will check, share and cross match your information both internally within the council and with external organisations to protect public funds and prevent or detect crime, only where the law allows us to do so. The Council’s full Privacy and Disclaimer Statement can be accessed on the website at https://www.dudley.gov.uk/privacy-disclaimer-statement/ N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications LI-DMBC2019 Attached documents JD PS Employee Benefits List.pdf