Virtual School Project Officer (Internal Only)

The role

We are looking for an experienced administrator who has a passion to promote the educational attainment of children looked after and children with a Social Worker. You will have a key role in leading and supporting projects and will provide effective administrative support including financial, analytical and performance reporting, and project management.

This role will play a crucial part in monitoring the attendance and attainment of the social care cohort and support the Virtual School with financial management and recruitment duties.

Being part of Southwark’s Virtual School means joining a dynamic, creative and supportive network of professionals and skilled colleagues who are committed to improving the education attainment of children in care and children with a Social Worker.

You will join a strong administrative team who you will work closely with and will have opportunity to collaborate on exciting new projects. We are a cohesive workforce with senior level visibility and close support networks dedicated to your personal development.

We offer a comprehensive professional development programme that can be tailored to your individual learning needs. We will also support you by offering reflective supervision, mentorship, support.

About you:

To thrive in this post, you will have experience of driving new and complex projects through from inception to completion.
You will have experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting quantitative and qualitative data.

You should have experience of developing dashboards and writing reports and of financial monitoring and record keeping.
You will have a wide range of communication skills to liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders in the education sector.

You will have appropriate qualification and/or knowledge of electronic, administrative and monitoring systems and advance use of IT software packages such as Microsoft office. You should have knowledge of or be willing to train towards using business intelligence tools such as Power BI or similar.

About Southwark:

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities.  Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Additional details

We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment. We encourage any internal staff to to gain agreement from their substantive line manager if considering this is as a secondment opportunity.

This is an exciting 6 month fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity with Southwark Virtual School Business Team.

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check as basic level.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

•  Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
•  Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
•  If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Recruitment timetable

Closing Date: 22 May 2024 at 23:59

Interview Date: 03 June 2024

SWCINT

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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