Projects and Improvement Officer - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Social Work England

Social Work England

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Social Work England are the specialist regulator for social work in England, focused on enabling positive change in social work.

Every day, social workers support millions of people to improve their chances in life. We are taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles.

We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate - to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people's lives.

The projects and improvement officer will play a critical role in our commitment to being a learning and innovative organisation.

They will strengthen links between our projects and wider change activity across the organisation by working across teams to identify and evaluate ways to improve and guiding colleagues in planning and implementing these improvements effectively.

What you will do

Contribute to maintaining and developing our project management approach and play a central role in the implementation of a benefits management approach
Undertake project delivery when appropriate and support Project Delivery and Improvement Managers with the delivery of key projects.
Review delivery of projects, including producing portfolio reports for project sponsors, boards and stakeholders and conducting lessons learned reviews
Monitor and communicate progress, issues, risks and dependencies across our project portfolio, escalating projects risks to the business planning manager for leadership consideration where appropriate
Develop our approach to capturing, monitoring and reporting on business improvements and impact of improvements
Collate information from across the organisation to support the leadership in decision making
Support the business planning team's work on corporate risk management, and work with colleagues to develop their understanding of our organisational risk management approach
Develop and implement our approach to innovation to ensure ideas are captured, evaluated, implemented and benefits tracked
Work with colleagues at all levels, including senior management, executive directors and board members

Your skills, knowledge and experience

Experience of contributing to the successful delivery of multiple projects
Ability to use quantitative and qualitative information to help monitor progress against business objectives and evaluate whether improvement efforts have led to the desired benefits
Ability to solve problems, redesign and make improvements to processes using creative thinking
An understanding of how risk management contributes to successful delivery of projects, plans and strategies
The ability to manage and prioritise several large pieces of work
Experience of facilitating lessons learned sessions (desirable)
Experience of working collaboratively within a team to achieve success
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written including the ability to communicate complex ideas in a concise and easy to understand manner
Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills
A demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

Details

Job type: Fixedterm
Salary: £28,917 per year, rising to £30,983 per year after successful completion of a 6month probationary period.
Location: Sheffield/hybrid working
Benefits: flexible working, contributory pension and life insurance and 25 days holiday
Closing date: 8th February 2023