School-Aged Childcare Coordinator

About The Role

We are recruiting for a School Aged Childcare Coordinator to join our Tackling Poverty team.

We are passionate about supporting low income families, committed to achieving positive outcomes, and bring experience of managing complex projects and partners.

This role is offered as an 18 month fixed-term contract or as a secondment opportunity.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coordinate and deliver a high-quality, responsive and professional School-Aged Childcare Programme, ensuring the Local Authority meets its statutory duties and fulfils the expectations set out in the Department for Education's School-Age Childcare Local Authority Capacity Funding Guidance.
• Design and implement local delivery plans for paid for and free childcare provision for children from reception onwards across term time and holiday periods, working collaboratively with schools, families, childcare providers, community organisations and internal council teams.
• Ensure sufficient, sustainable, inclusive and high-quality school-age childcare provision, including for children with SEND, and will support the long term development of a thriving childcare market.

About You

• Substantial experience of working in partnership with a range of services, organisations and stakeholders including families.
• Experience of working across boundaries, establishing and maintaining high personal and professional credibility with a range of individuals/stakeholders, such as external partners, colleagues across directorates and elected members.
• Experience and ability to plan, deliver and monitor projects and programmes of work, in line with agreed timescales and outputs; to contribute to cross service/agency projects.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills, with the ability to work effectively in a diverse community.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary £45,852 £49,155
• Local Government Pension Scheme membership
• Generous annual leave: 29 days, rising to 33 with 5+ years' service, plus bank holidays and 3 additional days at Christmas
• Flexible and agile working to support work life balance
• Staff money saving schemes (e.g., rent deposit loans, season ticket loans)
• Learning and development opportunities through our Learning Academy, with clear career development and leadership pathways