Officers Rota and Assistant Workforce Planner

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	15 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	14 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Manchester, M27 8US
Cwmni:	inploi
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	75716096

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Officers Rota and Workforce Planning Assistant

Salary: £29,093 - £32,654

Hours: 36.25 Hours per week plus on call allowances (Incident Command Function)

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid / Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters, Swinton

Closing date: Sunday 20th July 2025 at midnight

Your role: -

You’ll be responsible for the planning and maintenance of the Flexi Duty rota for officers. This includes allocating skills, annual leave and planning training requirements whilst ensuring the daily ridership requirement of the organisation is met. You’ll be supporting the Workforce Planning Officer to ensure the organisation has a workforce that can be deployed to optimal effect, ensuring skills meet requirements, and effectively forecasting and planning for movements, leavers and new starters. You will need to liaise effectively with senior leaders and teams across the organisation to ensure delivery of the Fire Action Plan.

About you: -

You must be able to work collaboratively both within a small team and with the wider organisation to deliver the required targets. You will have good verbal and written communication skills, including report writing, presentation skills and the ability to advise and influence at a variety of levels. You will have to build strong relationships as a large proportion of the role is effective stakeholder management.

The successful candidate will have an analytical mind and excellent attention to detail to ensure all reports and output from within the team are accurate. You will be highly motivated, reliable and able to plan and manage your work effectively. You will have excellent organisational skills and ability to cope with multiple deadlines, ensuring that appropriate action is taken where necessary.

Strong evaluation and problem-solving skills with a demonstrable ability to draw conclusions from self-analysis, information and supportive data.

In return for your efforts, we can offer a fantastic working environment with a motivated team who are committed to delivering an efficient and effective service.

About us:

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/

Our offer:

In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:

Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Home | greater.jobs

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Hybrid working

This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our [Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location] with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.

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