About The Role
Lead Commissioning Officer – Children & Families
Permanent, Full Time
£42,452 to £49,943 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
Working Style: Anywhere worker
The Opportunity
We are looking to recruit an additional Lead Commissioning Officers to join our busy team working across a diverse portfolio of Children and Families programmes. If you have good organisation and communication skills, are pro-active, creative and like to work autonomously, then this role could be for you. We are looking for people with a good grounding in local authority commissioning and who have a passion for making a difference to people’s lives. This is an exciting role working in the Children and Families Commissioning team to deliver strategic change and better outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers in Essex.
As a Lead Commissioning Officer, you will work closely with our Commissioning Managers, taking the lead on delivering discrete programmes of work that will make a difference to families across Essex.
You will work collaboratively across the wider Council functions and internal/external partners.
You will be a self-starter, working autonomously on your own initiative and have knowledge of children and families policy and legislation.
Working closely with Heads of Commissioning, Lead Commissioning Officers play an important part in leading the Strategic Commissioning and Policy Function across the Adults and Children's and Families portfolios and the wider Essex County Council structures to the Council’s approach to outcome focused and evidence- based commissioning.
You will:
- Deliver specific projects and activities that further the continuous improvement of high performing, sustainable and cost-effective services or place shaping activities and develop cross functional links.
