School Effectiveness Officer

**About The Role**: **Job Title**:School Effectiveness Officer **Contract**: Permanent **Location**:Hereford **Hours**: 37*** **Salary**:HC6 £27,269 - £31,067 per annum **Closing date**:19th November 2024 **Interviews**: tbc **Come and join us on our Restorative Journey of Improvement to gain the best for children and families in Herefordshire** **The Role** Herefordshire Council is looking to appoint a highly motivated School Effectiveness Officer. The School Effectiveness Team aims to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for schools and educational establishments to include: - The coordination and development of new and enhanced services as well as offering bespoke services specifically designed for individual settings. - Support and enable the sales and marketing of traded services for schools and academies. Produce and promote professional marketing materials, newsletters and articles. - Responsible for financial management to ensure accurate charges and the updating and maintenance of finance systems_._ - Analyse systems and data, identifying performance trends within traded services. Ensuring high quality accurate information is provided to assist growth and performance improvement for service areas. - Respond to enquiries from stakeholders which may be of a complex nature, ensuring that enquiries and/or complaints are dealt with by the appropriate staff. This will include dealing with confidential and sensitive information. The post holder will be proactive with a "can do" attitude and a commitment to high quality performance, recognising the benefits of innovation and adaptability in a challenging environment. You should have the ability to work on your own initiative, demonstrate outstanding planning and organisational skills as well as being a committed member of the team. You will need to be competent in the use of the Microsoft Windows package (Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams). There may be the occasional requirement to work outside of normal working hours so the post holder will need to be flexible. If you feel you could make a difference and are able to quickly develop good working relationships, committed to continuous improvement and convey information and ideas effectively, we would love to hear from you. **Benefits of working for Herefordshire Council**: A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes: - **Pension **Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS) - **Generous Annual Leave**: 31 days (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum - **Flexible working**:flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working - **Employee Assistance Programme**: 24/7 access to support and counselling - Payment of **professional membership fees**: - **Pick your perks **- our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts. **About Us** Herefordshire is a beautiful, historic county located in the heart of the Marches on the border with Wales. We are one of the most rural and sparsely populated counties in England with a wealth of unspoilt countryside, distinctive heritage, and lively and attractive market towns. Our priority in Herefordshire is to keep children safe and give them a great start in life. It’s the priority for the council, our partners and for all of us who work with Children & Young People. How do we do this? By having dynamic, dedicated, passionate and professional staff who work in a culture that focuses on what we can achieve with children, what they can achieve themselves, and the relationship we build with families and partners to enable this. We have invested heavily in training and developing staff in our relational practice approach with our improvement partner Leeds City Council, so it's an exciting time to join Herefordshire - we believe in investing in you so you can be the best you can be Herefordshire has a really strong team ethos. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and the positive difference they and the teams they are in make to people’s lives. This is all underpinned by the focus and support from their managers and the council as a whole. We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond. Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment. Come to Herefordshire and join the journey. We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered. - Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to th