Early Years Project Improvement Delivery Officer in Bury

A vacancy has arisen for an Early Years Project Improvement Delivery Officer within the Early Years and School Readiness Team. The vacancy is full time, working 5 days per week, fixed term for 1 year.

You will be expected to provide:

• Support relationships and co-production across the Partnerships and voluntary sector in Bury in respect of services provided to Children and Young People.
• Support development, maintain and review robust project plans to ensure delivery of objectives in a systematic and timely manner.
• Support the process of securing internal and external funding to support initiatives, including development of business cases and bids.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, build positive relationships, and ensure meaningful involvement and engagement with programmes.
• Support specific/bespoke projects on behalf of the Management Team, including research, analysis and reporting.
• Maintain a sound understanding of national, regional and local developments that may impact on the Department, ensuring the Departmental Management Team are appropriately briefed.

You will be part of a skilled, friendly and supportive team and work closely with a wide range of professionals. The Early Years Safeguarding Lead will be required to:

• Support delivery of the Early Years Entitlements and The Wraparound Childcare Programme and other aspects of Early Years development as required.
• Develop Projects in accordance with Early Years Delivery and Wraparound Childcare Programme.
• Review and report on the delivery of workstreams and projects to Senior Leadership.
• Provide organisational support for project groups.
• Risk manage projects and act to address identified areas of concern.

You must have:

• Graduate level qualification or equivalent substantial experience.
• Project Management Qualification (or significant experience of project management and willingness to achieve a relevant agreed qualification).
• Proven ability to influence, negotiate, and develop joint objectives with stakeholders and senior decision makers, collaboratively achieving these objectives through effective relationship management.
• Experience of multi-agency working.
• Experience of working in a programme/project management environment.
• Experience of risk management and ensuring delivery against identified objectives and milestones.
• Experience of working in a high-pressured environment using initiative and managing and prioritising workloads within strict deadlines and timescales.
• Ability to understand complex conversations and to promptly distil the information into tangible actions.
• Relevant skills and experience including keyboard skills, accuracy and speed; IT skills and extensive use of all aspects of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to design, write, summarise and produce excellent quality and accurate documents, eg letters, minutes, presentations and reports.
• Emotionally resilient with proven ability to deal with sensitive and upsetting situations/people.

You will report directly to the Wraparound Childcare Programme Project Officer: Rebecca Hunter. You will work across the borough of Bury delivering services within and to our Early Years Centre, Childrens Centre Family Hub and Early Years providers. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis with some evening and weekend work that occasionally may be required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service. In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Employee Benefits include:

• Local Government Pension Scheme.
• A range of attractive work/life balance policies in place together with a number of employee benefit and health and wellbeing offers including employee assistance programme.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years.
• Fantastic training and development opportunities.
• Employee discount scheme which provides discounts with local businesses within the borough as well as a cycle to work scheme and car lease scheme.
• We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises, values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.