Project Officer for Apprenticeships

**Job number**

LBC03335

**Contract Type**

Fixed Term / Secondment

**Posting End Date**

30 September 2024

**Job Area**

Apprenticeships and Internships

**About the job**:
**Salary: £30,825 - £33,945 a year pro rata**
**Hours per week: 37**
**Contract type: Fixed Term for 1 year**

Are you detail-oriented and passionate about contributing to the development of apprenticeship programmes? We are seeking a dedicated and organised individual to support our Programme Manager in the successful implementation, delivery, and evaluation of a variety of apprenticeship initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Programme Support**: Assist the Programme Manager in all aspects of programme implementation, ensuring that delivery is smooth and efficient.
- **Data and Financial Coordination**: Accurately manage learner data and financial evidence to ensure compliance and prevent financial clawbacks.
- **Systems Management**: Oversee and refine systems and processes to ensure alignment with funding requirements and project goals.
- **Stakeholder Collaboration**: Work closely with SMEs, providers, and stakeholders to ensure all administrative functions are completed effectively, and projects are performance-managed.
- **Event Management**: Develop, organise, and manage events aimed at promoting apprenticeships and their benefits.
- **Marketing and Promotion**: Lead efforts to market and promote apprenticeship programmes through various channels, including social media, newsletters, and the website, targeting both internal and external stakeholders.

**Please note this role does not attract sponsorship.**

**About you**:
Are you a detail-oriented professional with the passion for keeping projects on track and ensuring compliance with the highest standards? We're looking for someone just like you
- **Proven Project Support Experience**: You excel in coordinating claim checks to audit standards, managing records, handling partner payments, and ensuring everything is in order.
- **Analytical Insight**: You have a keen eye for spotting patterns and trends in diverse data sets. You're adept at drawing meaningful conclusions, evaluating costs, benefits, and risks, and providing actionable responses.
- **Exceptional Communication Skills**: Your interpersonal and communication skills are outstanding. You're an active listener who can present information clearly and concisely. You know how to adapt your communication style to achieve the best outcomes, whether you're working with colleagues, SMEs, or key stakeholders.
- **Excel Expert**: Your Microsoft Excel skills are second to none. You can record and analyse data with ease, perform complex arithmetic calculations, and manipulate Excel formulas like a pro.
- **Meticulous Attention to Detail**: Nothing escapes your notice. Your precision and focus ensure that every task is completed to the highest standard.
- **Project Management Knowledge**: You have a deep understanding of monitoring, forecasting, record keeping, and project management. You're the go-to person for keeping everything running smoothly.

If you're looking for a role where your skills and expertise will be valued, where you can make a real impact by supporting critical projects, and where you can build strong, positive relationships, then this is the opportunity for you.

**About us**:
Our ambitious **Luton 2040 Vision** - that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty - is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.

The people of Luton depend heavily on this council - and that means our workforce Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?

**Application Process**:
**Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.**

**Benefits**:
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:

- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
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