What's involved with this role: Temporary Project Officer - Children's Services Job Ref: Barnsley 0009 8644 / 1 Pay Rate: £17.79 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 5-6 months City: Barnsley, South Yorkshire Hybrid working Basic DBS disclosure required for this role The purpose of the role is to assist in the management of projects in relation to the children’s services including, practice improvement, performance, quality, strategy and service development aimed at improving the welfare or wellbeing of children and families, ensuring successful gathering and delivery of all requirements. Key Responsibilities: Assist with project management, co-ordinating resources to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Ensure that projects are effectively planned and managed within a formal programme and project management framework. Provide advice and guidance in relation to projects, with consideration for the complex requirements of people-related issues, assisting in ensuring that key milestones and information are communicated to internal and external stakeholders. Support the maintenance of project risk registers and assist in resolving issues to ensure projects are delivered. Assist in performance management and data analysis, promoting quality practice and service delivery, ensuring continuous improvement. Assist in the identification, evaluation and implementation of processes, technology and systems to enhance project and service delivery. Establish and maintain a library of documents and information to enable the effective management of projects and programmes. Assist in the preparation of reports and presentations. Liaise, negotiate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including managers, employees, councillors and partnership agencies as required to ensure the effective delivery of projects. Keep abreast of local and national developments to enhance projects accordingly, to satisfy internal and external demands. Comply with all health and safety regulations, legal requirements, statutory requirements, standing orders and financial regulations of the Council. Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role as requested by management. Qualifications: Relevant level 2 qualification. Relevant Project/Programme Management Training OR substantial demonstrable experience working in a project management environment. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience in children’s services will be helpful but not essential. Experience of working in a project management environment. Experience of utilising formal project management methodologies. Experience of continuous service improvement with strong enthusiasm for improving service delivery. Experience of advising and negotiating with a cross section of stakeholders. Experience of presenting information verbally or in writing. Experience of undertaking formal presentations and briefing sessions. Knowledge of working in a children’s services environment relating to transformation. Knowledge of recognised project management methodology. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please