Senior Commissioning Officer

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Senior Commissioning Officer (3x)
£47,354 - £60,515 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth
Hybrid working: 2-3 days per week in the office and out in the community

Are you an experienced and accomplished Commissioner who is passionate about delivering better outcomes for children, young people and their families?

The Commissioning Team is part of Children's Services - Business and Resources department, who act as the 'right arm' to deliver support to colleagues across Children's Services and our wider partners. Overseeing and developing the transformation and improvement of service provision, you will be leading on improving outcomes for service users through our external contracts and services.

You will be joining us at an exciting time as we are build a new team and develop our youth offer in line with being the London Borough of Culture in 2025. Our focus on empowering communities and reducing inequalities, and ensuring our young people are supported, happy and thriving through all of the work we do across education, social care and early help.

About the role

Supporting the Lead Commissioner and team, and responsible for medium and large contracts, you will drive high performance and value for money through effective contract management and improvement.

Working aligned with the identified children's priorities, you will be monitoring contracts for budget, quality and performance; and leading on the procurement and improvement exercises with elements of service redesign and transformation. Your role will be key in developing and delivering high level governance reports, needs assessments, service reviews, as well as data analysis on budget and financial oversight.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Project management skills with up-to-date knowledge of national policy and guidance.
• Excellent communication, relationship building and partnership working skills.
• Experience of outcome focussed commissioning with good negotiation skills.
• Experience of leading successful procurement exercises
• Passionate about children and families, championing the voice of the child and families especially from vulnerable groups.
• Producing high level overview presentations and reports in a concise manner.

If you meet the above criteria and want to improve the experiences of children and young people while reducing the inequalities gap, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.

Contact details

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Pasquale Brammer at pasquale.brammer@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Closing date: 29th November 2024
Shortlisting date: w/c 2nd December 2024
Interview date: w/c 2nd or 9th December 2024

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils