Commissioning and Contracts Officer

To lead the development of team practice to manage and implement a range of commissioning strategies, policies and plans on specific service areas to ensure best commissioning practice, behaviours and competencies are applied and deliver the agreed outcomes and targets across the full commissioning cycle.

Responsibilities

Robust needs assessment of systemic coproduced service review and redesign

Benefits realisation, business cases, performance management and evaluation

Commercialisation and routes to market, including procurement

Contract/SLA specification and management

Service/Provider stability and improvement

To fulfil national strategy and guidance and statutory responsibilities in relation to the specific commissioned service, this includes working with joint funders and key stakeholders

To lead, support and co‐coordinate programmes of work including multi‐agency partnerships and task and finish groups, on behalf of the wider team, to ensure strategic and operational objectives are delivered

To undertake necessary work to influence, shape and lead policy areas alongside decision makers and resource holders in order to commit resources to new and innovative partnership projects including new income generation activities to support new approaches

About Stoke‐on‐Trent City CouncilStoke‐on‐Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. Our city, although the 13th largest in the UK, is rapidly outstripping many parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated \’world capital of ceramics\’. But we don\’t just want to celebrate our proud past – we firmly believe that Stoke‐on‐Trent\’s best years are ahead of us. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high‐quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well‐paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.

When you work for Stoke‐on‐Trent City Council you\’ll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We\’ll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.

Our commitment to vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke‐on‐Trent\’s greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive. Our approach to equality and diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need. Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under‐represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.

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