Contract Type: Fixed Term for 12 months
Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week, standard variable hours, usually between 8.00am and 4.00pm, subject to service needs.
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker.
Salary: Starting Salary is £33,673 (Level one) rising to £36,581 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: Hybrid working, with attendance at Council sites, meetings, site visits, training, conferences and other in-person events as required.
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
• You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
We are recruiting to a Temporary Project Officer post within the Crisis and Resilience Team - Welfare Rights. This role will provide project delivery support across a varied and important service portfolio, helping to deliver service improvement, monitoring, transformation, governance, income protection and strategic delivery activity.
The role will help provide the project capacity needed to support service continuity, effective governance, risk management and delivery of agreed priorities. As a Project Officer, you will support the planning, coordination and delivery of projects across the wider portfolio. You will help turn ideas and priorities into structured pieces of work, supporting colleagues to deliver change in a clear, organised and practical way.
You will support the development and delivery of service projects; prepare project documents, briefs, action logs, reports and updates; help monitor project progress, risks, issues, actions and benefits; work with colleagues and stakeholders to gather information, solve problems and keep work moving; support meetings, workshops and project discussions; use data, evidence and feedback to support decision-making and improvement; and help ensure projects are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality expectations.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
The ideal candidate will have:
• Experience of supporting or delivering projects, service improvements or change activity.
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise work to meet deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing clear documents, updates or reports.
• Ability to work with colleagues, stakeholders or partners to progress actions and resolve issues.
• Ability to use information, data or evidence to support problem-solving and decision-making.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a commitment to inclusive and customer-focused service delivery.
You will need to be comfortable working across different areas, managing competing priorities and supporting colleagues through change. You can find the job description for this post here.
You can find the job description for this post here.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Michelle Charnley, Operations Support Manager, by telephone on 0115 8765432 or by email at michelle.charnely@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 8th October 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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Contact Details:
Nottingham City Council, Leicestershire County Council, East Midlands Group Recruitment Team
