Commissioning Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Tameside, OL6 7RL |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75740807 |
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Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £39,862 to Scale 31 - £41,771
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside Housing Advice, Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 7RL
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
This is a brand new and exciting role to work alongside the Housing advice team to identify new opportunities and partnerships in Tameside to help deliver high quality accommodation and support services.
Although the post is office based there will be lots of working across communities to bring together effective partnerships and services to support the Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy and action plan and really make a difference to the residents of Tameside facing housing difficulties.
About You
You will be a strong, confident and experienced individual able to negotiate high value and complex technical and price contracts.
Ideally you will have experience in a similar contracts and commissioning environment in a local authority or in housing and support services.
You will be a great communicator and show a track record of developing strong partnerships to deliver shared ambitions.
You will be able to work on your own initiative an navigate your way through procurement rules in a timely fashion.
Excellent IT skills are a must to enable good contract management to be in place.
Negotiating skills and an understanding of the current housing market is also a must alongside an understanding of the challenges being faced by local authorities.
The ability to provide high level reports and present complex information to a variety of audiences is a vital skill required as is an understanding of a local authorities financial processes.
About Us
Come shape the future of Tameside with us!
Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.
“Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I’ve been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that’s making a real difference to our borough.
“Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tamesidecovering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it’s keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.
‘’We’ve already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it’s not just about developments day to day it’s about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and asssets for the future.
To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that’s driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we’d love to have you on board.
Come and be part of something great. Let’s build the future of Tameside together!’’
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 4352 or carol.halton@tameside.gov.uk
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