Please note that the advertised salary for this position is subject to a pending pay award. The final salary will be adjusted in line with the nationally agreed pay award.

We are looking to recruit a Service Development Officer to join our Housing Support Service on a fixed-term, full-time basis.

About the role

You will work as part of the Housing Support Service to provide support to the Senior Officer to enable Commissioning of the full range of Housing Support Services and to support the ongoing development of Housing Support services ensuring alignment with the Through Age Wellbeing model.

On a day to day basis you will:

• provide a monitoring and control service and generate various reports to ensure information is effectively analysed, communicated, escalated and mitigated to minimise potential impacts
• provide challenge to service providers and project leads in terms of reporting and escalate as is appropriate
• ensure service specifications for commissioning are sharply focused and essential communications with key stakeholders are actively managed
• assist provider and service leads on the development of innovative solutions and service specifications and other essential tender documentation and collate information as necessary

Our ideal candidate

We are looking to recruit an individual who is/can:

• experienced in working in project or contract delivery or within a similar environment
• monitor programme and projects in areas of planning, risks, issues, finance, resources, assumptions and dependencies
• use data to develop new ideas for development of service delivery

Our offer to you

We are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, pension scheme with 14.6% employer contribution, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages.

More information about our wide-ranging employee benefits can be found here.

Job Description and Person Specification

Get in touch

For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Martin Gillard on martin.gillard@ceredigion.gov.uk

Note: We reserve the right to extend the application closing date.