Inclusion Project Assistant - Maidstone, United Kingdom - Kent County Council

Kent County Council

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Maidstone, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The Mainstream Inclusion Team within the Education Directorate at Kent County Council has an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to help support and form positive change for the children with SEND within Kent.

The is a temporary 3 year fixed term full time contract.

As part of your role you will support, monitor and review a range of projects, leading on specific work packages where appropriate and providing, advice and support to managers within the Directorate, to ensure effective project implementation in line with budgets and timescales.

You will provide project management support and assistance to specific Inclusion project activities in line with the project methodology and approach most suitable to meet the needs of the directorate, ensuring a flexible and adaptive way of working.

You will deliver presentations and facilitate workshops to a variety of audiences, both internal and external to the organisation using a variety of methods tailored to the needs of the audience in order to promote a wider understanding and appreciation of the projects involved.

You will be required to maintain a robust monitoring and quality control system for projects, in line with the project methodology and approach most suitable to meet the needs of the directorate, providing regular reports as required, to enable the provision of informed data to senior management, ensuring that projects are on target and enables the identification and prompt reporting of budget targets and anomalies.

About You

As Project Assistant you will be overseeing a range of projects, we expect you to have good project management skills, able to manage your time and prioritise your workload effectively, and to proactively identify issues that need to be resolved.

You will be working with a range of partners; you will need good collaboration skills and be able to communicate complex issues to a wide audience.

We collaborate with a wide range of partners and stakeholders, you will be required to maintain regular and effective communication with colleagues at all levels within the Directorate and beyond, as well as multi-agency partners, organising meetings, attending team briefings, preparing and delivering briefings when required, in order to promote projects and ensure the delivery of high-quality outcomes.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position.

The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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