Project Officer

The Methodist Church in Britain; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holidays

Flexible working

Guaranteed interview for disabled apps

Salary at bottom of grade

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is recruiting a Project Officer within the Commissioning and Partnerships Team. The role coordinates and monitors projects tied to service redesign, tracking milestones, governance and risks, and reporting to managers.

It supports a major transformation programme across services with partner engagement and safeguarding checks in place. The post involves flexible working discussions and opportunities to collaborate with internal and external partners to improve homelessness

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting projects, programmes or service improvement activity.
• Experience of partnership working or securing commitment to shared objectives.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of service transformation and improvement programmes.
• Coordinate project plans, milestones, actions and governance arrangements.
• Monitor progress, identify risks and support resolution of barriers to delivery.
• Collect, analyse and interpret data for performance monitoring and decision-making.
• Prepare reports, presentations and briefings for managers.
• Organise and facilitate meetings, workshops and engagement activity.
• Build positive relationships with internal and external partners.
• Support development and implementation of policies, procedures and service improvements.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Organisational skills

Data analysis

Communication

Presenting information

Independent working

Job description

This Project Officer post sits in the Commissioning and Partnerships Team of Sheffield City Council's homelessness and supported housing service. The job coordinates and monitors projects tied to service redesign, keeping milestones, governance and risks on track and reporting to managers. It supports a major transformation programme in a statutory service and spans several services, with partner and stakeholder engagement built in. Safeguarding checks apply, and flexible working is open to discussion.

What the job involves

• Support delivery of service transformation and improvement programmes
• Coordinate project plans, milestones, actions and governance arrangements
• Monitor progress, identify risks and support resolution of barriers to delivery
• Collect, analyse and interpret data for performance monitoring and decision-making
• Prepare reports, presentations and briefings for managers
• Organise and facilitate meetings, workshops and engagement activity
• Build positive relationships with internal and external partners
• Support development and implementation of policies, procedures and service improvements

What's required

Experience

• Experience of supporting projects, programmes or service improvement activity
• Experience of partnership working and securing commitment to shared objectives

Skills & knowledge

• Building effective relationships and working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders
• Strong organisational skills and managing competing priorities
• Analysing information and using evidence to support improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Presenting information clearly and adapting communication to different audiences
• Proactive, solution-focused and able to work independently when required

Checks & eligibility

• Relevant safeguarding checks, where appropriate to the role

Nice to have

• Experience within housing, homelessness, supported housing or public services
• Experience of partnership working or project delivery

What's offered

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Flexible working options, including reduced hour contracts, part time or job share
• Guaranteed interview for disabled applicants, care leavers and armed forces veterans who meet the essential criteria
• Starting salary at bottom of grade, or higher point on payslip evidence of greater basic pay