Project Officer (Adult Skills) in Nuneaton

Warwickshire is famous around the world as Shakespeare's County, but that is only half the story. We remain a creative and innovative place in other ways too. Warwickshire is home to many UK and international brands, with key strengths in automotive, future mobility and digital creative industries. The area is a major global centre for vehicle electrification, autonomous technologies and video game development. Our local universities include the University of Warwick and Coventry University.

Within Warwickshire County Council, the Employability and Skills Team commissions services and provides a number of support services, primarily supporting businesses, gathering economic needs, whilst also supporting in the creation of career opportunities linking to employment, education and skills partners. The team engage widely with a number of external partners and stakeholders who we collaborate with to widen our reach.

This is an excellent opportunity to join Warwickshire County Council’s Adult Skills Team and play a key role in supporting the delivery of skills programmes that help adults access learning, training and employment opportunities. The role involves project and contract administration, performance monitoring, financial processing, stakeholder engagement, audit support, and the coordination of governance activities. You'll work closely with delivery partners, funders and colleagues to ensure projects are effectively managed, compliant, and achieve their intended outcomes.

We are looking for a proactive and organised individual with strong communication, IT, financial and analytical skills, who can manage multiple priorities and contribute to the development and delivery of impactful Adult Skills initiatives.

As a local authority, we pride ourselves in being collaborative and barrier breaking, whilst demonstrating strong team cultures by encouraging creative thinking, personal development and embracing new ways of working. We are proudly an award-winning team, recognised for its culture and employee engagement, we operate a "flexible working" staff policy, whilst also offering enhanced wellbeing and staff benefit programmes such as cycle to work schemes, childcare vouchers, pension and health care schemes.

The post is based at the Warwickshire Skills Hub in Nuneaton, with county wide travel and visits to neighbouring authorities anticipated.

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision. At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager. For any questions regarding the roles available, please contact Vicki Haslam on vickihaslam@warwickshire.gov.uk.

Closing date: Midnight on Monday 14th September. Interview date: 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September.

Should you require application forms in an alternative format/language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.