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Kent County Council is looking to recruit a Families First Project Manager for a 12-month contract role (full-time and hybrid working), with a potential extension.
The purpose of the role is to form part of the Families First Programme team, working alongside a Programme Manager, Project Managers and Project Officers and multi-agency stakeholders (Police, Education, Health, etc). This role will lead on management of the programme support functions; governance, planning and scheduling, risk, issue and dependency management, reporting and monitoring, documentation and version control, stakeholder and communications support, change control, benefits management support and coordination, to ensure that Children Services are set up as a single integrated system that supports the wellbeing of and protects all children from significant harm, inside and outside of the home.
The role will be agile in adapting to the needs of the programme and will work closely with the Families First Programme Manager, Workstream Leads and stakeholders to ensure that robust plans are in place to deliver the programme and meet the national statutory guidance for Families First to a developed model by April 2027.
The Project Manager will have oversight of the maintenance, co-ordination and monitoring of both the Department for Education delivery plan and the Kent Families First project plan establishing governance and equality frameworks, systems and processes, undertaking risk management activity for the programme and ensuring the delivery team and workstream leads are organised and remain within budgets and programme timescales.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Contact Details
If you have any queries regarding the role please contact Richenda Polson, Families First Programme Manager at richenda.polson@kent.gov.uk
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.
Job Description & Person Specification:
* Families First Project Manager JD.pdf