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Looking to extend your communication and negotiation skills? Join us as a Project Delivery Officer and be crucial in the success of implementing the Changing Futures Programme!

With a starting salary of £35,411, generous annual leave, great pension, plus a wide range of flexible and hybrid working option, there has never been a better time to join!

Find out more about Changing Future Programme here!

Salary: £35,411 to £38,296 per annum
Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2024
Location: County Hall North, Horsham with the requirement to travel across the programme delivery area of West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton.

Interview Date: Friday 10 March 2023

We’re looking for resilient and passionate Project Delivery Officers to be a key component of the Changing Futures Programme team, providing a strong link from their respective Local Authority hosts to the programme team and vice versa.

As a Project Delivery Officer, you will:

• Manage your own tasks and work closely with the central programme team.
• Have a high-level communication and negotiation skills, and a good understanding of the internal workings of an upper tier local authority.
• Have patience and resilience, excellent organisational skills.
• A determination to succeed, a constructive and pragmatic approach to overcoming challenges.
• Manage internal relationships and coordination on internal stakeholder communications.
• Participate in relevant partnership forums and programme working groups.
• Implement programme initiatives, workstreams and data collection.

If you would like to join our strong and dynamic team, take a look at the attached job description and see if you have the skills, qualifications, and experience to be a Project Delivery Officer!

Key Skills:

Qualifications and/or experience:

• Degree level education or equivalent level of experience.
• Experience of robust data collection, monitoring and reporting.
• Knowledge of relevant current and developing policy and practice, including funding arrangements.
• Sound and accurate working knowledge of Microsoft applications, e.g. Microsoft Office, SharePoint, MS Project.
• Finance experience with developed numeracy skills; knowledge and use of finance systems and databases.
• Detailed knowledge of the service landscape relevant for people suffering multiple disadvantage.
• Demonstrable evidence of supporting continuous improvement and strategic development to a range of clients through successful project delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of working as a competent member of a project team, delivering projects, managing change and effectively supporting the resources required to deliver the objectives and supporting strategic development in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience and confidence in dealing with people and the ability to establish credibility at all levels of the organisation both with internal and external contacts.

Why choose us as your next employer? We care about wellbeing, allowing time for celebrating our teams efforts, and developing our team to be the best they can be. Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.

• Hybrid working – You will be working as a combination from home and within one of our West Sussex County Council locations (e.g. Horsham, Chichester etc).
• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually. Increasing to 25 days as of April 2023.
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme, 21.37% employer contribution*.
• Great maternity, paternity, dependency, and adoption leave.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring.
• A range of discounts including: ASOS, Cineworld, Samsung and Apple.
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres.
• A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives.

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

• This is updated annually every 01.04.

The reference number for this role isCAFHE04305.

How to Apply

Please upload your CV (ensuring your CV covers any gaps in employment) and Cover Letter explaining:

• How your skills and experience directly relate to the key skills listed on the job description.
• Your motivations for applying for the role

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran’s Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.

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