Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council are looking to recruit a motivated and well-organised individual to the role of Commissioning Officer in our Children's Commissioning team.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a busy and dynamic service supporting some of the Council's key priorities for children, young people and families. The team works across a broad range of areas within Children's Services, helping to ensure that commissioned provision is safe, effective, responsive to need and delivers positive outcomes.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting commissioning activity across the service. This will include working with providers and partners, monitoring and reviewing commissioned activity, contributing to compliance and quality assurance processes, supporting the management of contracts and associated information, and using data and service intelligence to help inform decision-making and service improvement.

We are looking for someone who can work independently at a high level, manage competing priorities, communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues and external partners, and analyse information from different sources to support a well-informed and responsive commissioning function.

The role offers an exciting and fulfilling opportunity to work across a varied portfolio of responsibilities within Children's Commissioning, aligned to service priorities and the evolving needs of the directorate.

An enhanced DBS disclosure & other pre appointment checks will be required for this post.

Employee Benefits and Rewards

We offer a range very attractive Employee Benefits and Rewards including

• Generous annual leave of up to 34 days per yearHybrid Working (where appropriate)
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to our employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings

A range of Staff Network groupsFor more details: https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/benefits-and-rewards

For further information about the role, please contact Adam Gray, Service Manager Children's Commissioning and Support Services Telephone: 07768 851565