Information and Sufficiency Officer

Information and Sufficiency Officer (Early Years)

Grade: F

Salary: £25,119 - £26,873 per annum pro rata

Location: Hybrid - Home with some office work

Hours: 24 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

North Yorkshire County (NYC) is one of the largest Local Authorities in the country employing people in a wide range of roles.

About the role

The Information and Sufficiency Officer (Early Years) will work closely with the Early Years Strategy Manager within the wider School Improvement team delivering services to families, early years’ providers, schools and out of school clubs across the county as well as internal and external colleagues. You will be able to work flexibly from home or be based at the County Hall offices in Northallerton.

Reporting to the Early Years Strategy Manager, you must be able to work independently as part of small, supportive team to deliver a wide range of services relating to early years (children aged 0 – 5 years) and wraparound provision. This includes ensuring there is sufficient childcare available for working parents, processing and monitoring of government funding for disadvantaged eligible two-year-old children and providing information, advice and assistance to families, colleagues and childcare providers.

You must have good literacy, numeracy and communication skills together with good working knowledge of word processing and working with spreadsheets. Ideally, you’ll also have some experience of providing information, advice and guidance to customers or the public, and knowledge of a variety of computer packages.

This position offers a unique role that will allow you to help develop and promote services to families and early years’ and childcare providers.

We can offer you:-

• A supportive and friendly team environment

• The opportunity for career development

• A rewarding and fulfilling career

• Competitive salary package including pay progression, generous leave entitlement, career average pension scheme with excellent benefits

• Access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts including green car scheme and home technology scheme.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Helen Smith, Early Years Strategy Manager on 01609 797712.

Key dates
Closing date: 14th April 2024
Interview date: 17th or 18th April 2024

Key documents

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