Early Years Business Support Officer

3 days ago

Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Gloucestershire County Council Full time
About the Role

The Early Years Sufficiency and Business Support team is responsible for ensuring there is sufficient high-quality sustainable childcare provision across the maintained, private, voluntary, and independent sectors in Gloucestershire.

Key Responsibilities
  • To gather and collate data and information reports for weekly and termly reporting to the Department for Education (DFE).
  • To support Early Years managers with information in response to situations as they occur.
  • To receive, monitor, input, and respond to Ofsted information and data, raising queries/concerns where appropriate.
  • To ensure providers complete all necessary returns and analyse data to aid planning and monitoring sufficiency and sustainability of provision.
  • To ensure that new providers are set up with a Provider Portal Account and all required start-up documentation, including Nursery Funding Provider agreements, are issued to providers.
  • To regularly monitor and approve, as required, updates from childcare providers onto the Self-Update Portal as received.
  • To support the EY Development Officer to carry out annual monitoring and support calls to all Childcare Providers offering Out-of-School and Holiday provision.
  • To support the Nursery Funding Team (at set periods to be agreed with the Early Years Sufficiency & Business Manager) with the Nursery Funding payment processes, including critical payments to promote sufficiency throughout the year.
About You

To be successful, you will need excellent organisational skills to allow you to prioritise workloads and ensure our service levels are maintained. You will also need a customer-focused nature to help build working relationships with our stakeholders. Additionally, you will bring your data analysis and manipulation skills to ensure the administrative output is accurate and completed in a timely manner.

Requirements
  • A good level of literacy and numeracy, equivalent to Grade C or above in English and Maths.
  • A further academic/professional qualification, equivalent to BTEC National/NVQ3 in an area such as Business Administration or Finance.
About Us

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer-facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

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