Commissioning Officer

Role: Commissioning Officer

Sector: Public and Not-for-Profit

Duration: 3 months

Location: Northampton

Salary: up to £24 UMB per hour

Sellick Partnership is currently recruiting for an experienced Commissioning Officer to join our client based in Northamptonshire, working on a hybrid basis.

The Commissioning Officer will support the commissioning of services that are aligned to the Council's strategic priorities and national best practice and guidance. The Commissioning Officer will support the development of services, and contribute to the needs analysis, commissioning, market testing, and review of all adult social care and housing commissioned services. In addition, the post holder will ensure appropriate processes are embedded to allow the team to assure themselves of provider performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Completing project activities and build relationships with other partners/organisations to support the development and delivery of actions within adopted Commissioning strategies to ensure the best possible outcomes for people within available resources, compliant with legislation and in line with national and local strategic direction
• Working with colleagues in Business Support and Business Intelligence teams to collate a range of data to support the analysis of information relating to contract performance, management and costs
• Using the data obtained to produce reports to enable the monitoring of performance against contracts and key performance indicators
• Providing high quality coordination of and support to routine commissioning business processes, including performance and quality assurance monitoring, and liaising with council colleagues on financial, legal, and procurement tasks.
• Developing and implementing engagement structures and activities to gather the views of individuals who use services, families and carers, local communities, service providers and other key stakeholders to identify service gaps and unmet needs
• Supporting with the procurement process including writing of specifications and tender documentation, helping to evaluate tender submissions and ensuring new contracts are issued, alongside the Commissioning Manager, to ensure services are procured robustly.
• Leading on the benchmarking, market and provider research, review legislation, intelligence and policy guidance
• Providing advice and guidance about commissioned services to operational staff, senior managers, elected members including the writing of analytical reports and presentation of data
• Using market data and intelligence to support the production of key strategic documents

Ideal Commissioning Officer

• Be experienced in analysing and interpreting data to prepare clear, and concise reports
• Have knowledge and understanding of information governance and data protection
• Have experience of project management including coordination, planning, information collation, analysing data to produce reports, strategies and business cases
• Experience within the public sector would be beneficial

The Commissioning Officer will need to have excellent communication skills and effectively be able to communicate to stakeholders of all levels. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will have an impeccable eye for detail and accuracy to ensure all workload is carried out effectively and efficiently. They will also need to be able to prioritise their workload and be efficient and effective to meet unpredictable deadlines and deal with conflicting demands, whilst working in a high pressured environment.

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