Regional Business Support Officer

The Together4Children Regional Permanency Partnership

Salary:  £19,171- ££20,344 per annum

 37 Hours Per Week – Secondment or Fixed Term until July 2020

The Together4Children Regional Permanency Partnership is seeking an enthusiastic, flexible and well-motivated Regional Business Support Officer to join us on our journey of transformation across Staffordshire County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Shropshire Council and Telford & Wrekin Council.

The Together4Children Regional Permanency Partnership is on a journey of transformation to create the first Regional Permanency Arrangement in the country by working together to improve outcomes for those children who enter care and are not able to return to their families of origin. The Partnership aims to ensure that our children achieve emotional, physical and legal permanence; growing up in loving homes with adults who provide them with a strong sense of security, continuity, commitment and identity.

Working within the Business and Executive Support Function of Staffordshire County Council, the successful candidates will have the unique opportunity of supporting a dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking transformation programme. The successful candidate will be part of the highly motivated, supportive and ambitious Together4Children Regional Commissioning & Development Hub. The Regional Business Support Officer will undertake a range of activities, including:

• High level calendar management for Senior Officers within the Partnership, including the coordination and scheduling of appointments and meetings, event management and travel co-ordination.
• Full support and facilitation for a variety of operational, strategic and senior level meetings across sites. This will involve organising meetings, producing and distributing papers in a timely manner, chasing outstanding actions, taking minutes, ensuring additional attendance where required.
• To use, maintain and monitor extensive and varied ICT packages for the input and retrieval of data, use of office email and intra/internet facilities.
• Assistance with the maintenance and monitoring of Partnership budgets, including raising invoices, payment of accounts through the relevant Finance systems.
• Assistance with the development of communications, publicity and other information.
• To establish and maintain appropriate pending, filing and information systems, which will include maintaining a range of databases.
• To organise events on behalf of managers as required including booking rooms, publicity, responding to enquiries, maintaining databases of attendance and registration.

Responsible to the Senior Business Support Officer, with accountability to the Regional Commissioning & Development Lead, the successful candidate will be highly motivated, enthusiastic and hard working whilst having excellent communication skills, an ability to work in a fast-paced, busy environment, and to manage changes at short notice. Good IT skills with a knowledge of systems for data management is essential.

The successful candidates will be based in Stafford with the Regional Commissioning & Development Hub. The successful postholder will be required to travel across Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin on occasions. The County Council also operates an agile-working scheme.

Staffordshire County Council (on behalf of our partnership) is offering this post on a secondment/fixed term until July 2020. Candidates are invited to be seconded from organisations outside of Staffordshire County Council. Candidates should seek permission of their employing organisation before applying for a secondment arrangement.

Should you also wish to have an informal conversation about this position, please contact Joseph Sullivan, Regional Commissioning & Development Lead via joseph.sullivan@staffordshire.gov.uk to make arrangements for an informal discussion.

Closing Date: Wednesday 20^th November 2019, 11:59pm

Shortlisting Date: Thursday 21^st November 2019

Interview Date: Tuesday 26^th November 2019

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