Senior Commissioning Officer Grade 12

2 weeks ago


Croydon, United Kingdom Croydon Council Full time

Croydon is seeking to recruit a Senior Commissioning Officer within its rough sleeping team. The Rough Sleeping Commissioning team covers the delivery of Croydon’s rough sleeper services from submitting grant funded bids to commissioning services and managing their delivery. The team also governs a pathway of supported accommodation beds to the sum of over 300 beds.

**Your role will cover the following**:

- Support the delivery of the rough sleeping initiative grant
- Service commissioning/recommissioning and decommissioning
- Supports contract negotiation strategies
- Supports service reviews research and analysis
- Financial Performance analysis
- Lead on procurement and mobilisation of rough sleeper services from inception, throughout the procurement journey unto the contracts and commissioning board approval with support from contracts and reviews officer and Lead Commissioner.
- To lead on service evaluation contributing to service redesign as required with support from the rough sleeper coordinator
- To identify key project stakeholders and develop and implement strategies and approaches to establish positive, effective working relationships with them.
- To prepare high-quality project related and other documentation to support the project delivery and effective change.
- To carry out analysis and research, gaps in services, identifying opportunities to deliver value for money, and contributing towards service re-design.
- To comply with the Department of Levelling Up’s data monitoring & Public Health England’s monitoring requirements related to the project’s data returns and grant conditions.

**Essential knowledge and experience**
- Experience of Procurement, Tendering and Commissioning
- An understanding of contracts and compliance when commissioning services.
- Experience of evaluating services and service redesign based on need
- Experience and strong understanding of equalities issues in relation to provision of services to vulnerable people
- Detailed knowledge of the homelessness, public health, social care, health sectors, including the policy, legal and regulatory environment
- Knowledge and understanding of quality assurance systems and of mechanisms for improving performance and quality within organisations, including Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
- Experience of managing and/or commissioning support services for vulnerable people, including experience of inter-agency working, project management, financial analysis and innovation
- A thorough understanding and positive approach to the impact of change on service delivery, and able to respond to changing work requirements

1 year fixed term / secondment role

Closing date Sunday 26 February at 11:59pm

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.



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