Project Officer - London, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment

Akton Recruitment
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2 weeks ago

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Project Officer


£25Hour
Akton are currently looking for a Project Officer to join a local authority on a contract basis.


ROLE-


To lead and manage strategy development and projects within the Policy, Performance and Partnerships Team, as required, including research and policy development, governance, community and business planning, commissioning, and performance and review.

To provide strategic and policy advice to senior officers of the Council and senior representatives of partner organisations.

To build and maintain relationships with relevant external stakeholders.


To assist in ensuring that divisional activities and practices support the strategic direction and priorities of the Council and its partner arrangements and relationships.


RESPONSIBILITIES-

  • Be responsible for the delivery of relevant strategy development and projects. This will include developing the project vision and its strategic impact on other departments & services, securing successful outcomes to project critical decisions/milestones, identifying and managing risks and issues, setting headline objectives and managing overall achievement. It will often be necessary for the postholder to coordinate and align people and resources not directly within their control and this role will usually entail leading more than one project simultaneously.
***- Produce and present reports to the Corporate Management Team, Cabinet, Scrutiny committees, Senior Management Teams and local partnership bodies in relation to strategy functions. Disseminate information on research and policy development, governance, community and business planning, commissioning, and performance and assessment throughout the authority.

  • Keep fully up to date with national and local developments with regards to relevant strategy functions. This will entail, at the minimum, contact with national and regional associations and the creation and sustaining of relationships with other local authorities.
  • Provide strategic and policy advice to senior officers of the Council and senior representatives of partner organisations.
  • Develop expertise in one or more strategy functions.
  • Represent the Council at internal and external meetings and working groups.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications-
Relevant degree and/or professional or management

Knowledge of one or more of the key programme areas of research and policy development, governance, community and business planning, commissioning, and performance and assessment

Good working knowledge of current social, political and economic issues relating to the work of the public sector, especially the process of modernisation of national and local government and what this means for strategy and partnership work

Knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of project delivery in complex organisations


Experience-
Experience of project delivery in a strategy, policy, planning or performance context

Experience of working in local government or other large, multi-functional organisation in the public, private or voluntary sectors

Experience of knowledge and information management in support of policy development, performance management or community and corporate planning


Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies-
Able to work collaboratively and purposefully with partners in other departments of the Council and in partner organisations locally and nationally

Able to write clearly and concisely on complex and multi-faceted topics

Good skills in the use of new technology to support strategy work, especially word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software

Able to analyze, synthesise, interpret and explain data and information drawn from a variety of sources
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