Commissioning Support Officer

Do you want to join a friendly, hardworking and committed team with a passion to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people? If so, come join our team and help us focus on ensuring robust and accurate record keeping is in place for children being educated other than at school. It is an exciting opportunity to develop this new role and take forward this area of work. If you are able to use your initiative, experienced in working with data and systems, and most importantly want to help improve outcomes for children and young people, we want you to hear from you. This role is fixed term for 12 months. Main Responsibilities You'll will:

• be responsible for systems, data entry and processing data effectively to provide commissioners with information to process charges for education.
• undertake operational duties associated with the day-to-day running of our Alternative Provision Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).
• ensure robust and accurate record keeping for children being educated other than at school.
• maintain information systems, including a range of databases..).
• assist with the maintenance and monitoring of contracts and commissioning budgets, including raising invoices and payments
• liaise with a range of staff to secure education for children who are out of school
  
  NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration (or equivalent) or previous administration experience, and use of databases
• ICT skills including a working knowledge of excel, data collection and analysis techniques
• organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• an broad understanding of the Council as a commissioner of services
  
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Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy: We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future. We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. Our benefits: We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire