Project Officer
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £31,199 to £35,579 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Thurrock, Essex, rm176eh |
| Company: | Thurrock Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1706_1713523017 |
Summary
Salary: £31,199 - £35,579 per annum
Grade: D
Permanent Contract
Full time 37 Hours per Week
Thurrock Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnership is a statutory organisation which has a strong membership of key partner agencies, who support each other working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Thurrock. The LSCP has two main functions; to oversee the work that agencies working with children are doing to ensure that children and young people are kept safe and to ensure that all those agencies that employ people to work with children have effective safeguarding policies in place to keep children safe.
An opportunity has arisen within Children's Services for a full time Project Officer supporting the Local Safeguarding Children's Partnership (LSCP). The role of the Project Officer is provide business support to the LSCP to include coordinating projects, preparing project reports, contributing to the functioning of the partnership's subgroups, maintaining the delivery plan, supporting reviews of serious safeguarding incidents, tracking action plans and the business plan, updating the website, collecting, maintaining and analysing performance data, processing finance invoices, organising stakeholder workshops, learning events and supporting the delivery of the learning and development programme.
The Project Officer will work closely with and support the LSCP Business Manager who oversees all project work and finance for the Partnership and enable the Partnership to achieve its aims and priorities.
The role consists of a variety of tasks including:
- Coordinating project work
- Producing project reports
- Data collection and analysis
- Processing invoice requests and reconciling payments
- Monitoring the Business Plan
- Actioning correspondence
- Promoting the work of the LSCP at business and community events
- Covering other members of the team when required, to include minute taking at meetings.
The role requires use of Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 packages including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook systems.
Closing Date:
Redeployment Only: 18th April 2024
Internal & External: 5th May 2024
Interview Date: w/c 13th May and 20th May 2024
For more information on the role please contact Priscilla Bruce-Annan, LSCP Business Manager at
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