Contract Officer - EDN28966

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Contract Officer
Waverley Court

Salary: £42,717 - £50,550
Hours: 36 per week

An exciting position has become available for an experienced professional to take a specialist lead role in the monitoring, development and evaluation of all commissioned services within the Children, Education and Justice Services Commissioning Team.

Key areas of work include:

- Participating in the collection of specialist, detailed knowledge of current practice within the client groups, monitor major reports/ research findings;

- Monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of commissioned services to ensure organisations are fulfilling their contractual service outputs and obligations and meeting customer need.

- Promoting good practice across the Children, Education and Justice Services Directorate within commissioned services through contributing to the development and monitoring of detailed service standards and practice guidance.

- Demonstrating the leadership skills required to achieve innovative and responsive approaches to meeting needs in complex multi-agency partnerships.

The successful candidate will be required to obtain a Basic Disclosure Scotland certificate prior to commencing.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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