Senior Assurance Officer - Change Delivery
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | nottingham, NG2 3NG |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5337 |
Summary
Senior Assurance Officer
Salary: £44,711 – £47,754 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) (Grade I)
Location: Nottingham - Hybrid working available
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Lead with Insight. Drive Change with Confidence.
Are you ready to be the voice of independent assurance across a dynamic portfolio of change? Are you passionate about making public services smarter, stronger, and more impactful?
Join Nottingham City Council as our Senior Assurance Officer and play a pivotal role in shaping the city's transformation journey. You’ll oversee high-risk, high-value programmes that are redefining how we deliver for our internal services and wider communities.
This is not just about compliance, it’s about adding value, building trust, and enabling successful delivery at every stage of a project’s lifecycle.
Why This Role Matters
This is your opportunity to:
Set the gold standard for project assurance and quality governance
Guide and challenge delivery teams to achieve better outcomes
Be the independent voice that helps keep critical programmes on track
Build confidence at the highest levels of the organisation, including senior leaders, commissioners, and elected members
What You’ll Be Doing
As our Senior Assurance Officer, you will:
✅ Lead a consistent, independent assurance framework across our Change portfolio
✅ Provide expert advice, critical analysis, and guidance through all phases of a project’s lifecycle
✅ Spot early risks, challenge assumptions, and help teams respond before issues escalate
✅ Standardise documentation, streamline governance, and promote lessons learned
✅ Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation
✅ Connect strategy with delivery, ensuring projects align with our city’s bold ambitions
✅ Foster a culture of learning, improvement, inclusion and transparency
You’ll work at the heart of a collaborative, purpose-driven team- influencing how transformation happens, and helping shape what success looks like across Nottingham.
Who We’re Looking For
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
Have a strong background in assurance, governance, or project/programme management
Are analytically sharp, with a keen eye for detail and risk
Are confident in providing constructive challenge and evidence-based insight
Understand the need for agility, structure, and transparency in complex delivery environments
Can hold your own in discussions with senior leaders and commissioners
Have a natural curiosity and drive for continuous improvement
Value equality, diversity and inclusion and embed these into your work and relationships
What You Bring:
Experience leading or embedding assurance processes in change environments
The ability to analyse complex data and communicate clearly to a wide audience
A confident, professional style when challenging decisions or raising concerns
Strong stakeholder management, able to balance competing priorities and interests
A track record of supporting learning, improvement, and innovation
Why Nottingham City Council?
At Nottingham City Council, we’re committed to being braver, bolder, and better. You’ll be joining a passionate Change Delivery team that is reshaping services with purpose and heart.
Hybrid working for a healthy work/life balance
A leadership role with real impact
Opportunities to grow and develop
A workplace where diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing matter
A chance to do meaningful work that serves the people of Nottingham
Apply now and be part of delivering change that truly counts. Let's build a better Nottingham, together.
As part of your application, please also include a copy of your CV and an Expression of Interest (no longer than 2 sides of A4) outlining how you meet the requirements in ‘Who We’re Looking For’.
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role, please get in touch with Letrice Serrant at Letrice.serrant@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or call on 0115 915 5555
Apply now and be part of delivering change that truly counts.
Let's build a better Nottingham, together.
You can find the job description here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
Closing Date: 16th June 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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