Project Officer

We have an exciting opportunity to join Sheffield City Council as a Project Officer in the Policy and Performance team.

We are looking for someone:

• Who will work alongside the Service Manager and other Senior Managers to work collaboratively across the Council and with its partners to assist in the development and review of the Commissioning, Inclusion and schools’ data.
• Able to carry out project management within the agreed frameworks.
• To ensure effective monitoring, tracking and achievement of projects and responsibility for ensuring that project targets and milestones are achieved on time and in budget, whilst identifying at an early stage any issues and barriers to successful implementation of a project and working with partners to find solutions.
• Can establish effective links with all relevant services to support in information sharing and provision of data.
• Help to ensure that Sheffield both contributes to and gains maximum benefit from available data and information by sharing knowledge and learning through active participation in projects, networking events and benchmarking exercises.

The position will be working closely with commissioning colleagues around the National Programme - Building Successful Families for the majority of the time . A level of knowledge of the Building Successful Families Programme is not essential but is preferred.

The position will initially be based in the Policy and Performance team, but the successful candidate will also work closely with commissioners and other colleagues across Integrated Commissioning.

The role is full time (37 Hours) and the successful candidate will be expected to work both between in the office and hybrid working.

For informal enquires about the role please contact Cora Bree on 0114 205 3163 or cora.bree@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.