Commissioning Officer - Young Tower Hamlets
This is an exciting time to join Tower Hamlets Youth Service. A key priority within the Tower Hamlets Council Strategic Plan 2022-2026 is to transform and improve services for young people in the borough. We are ambitious about ensuring that all young people in the borough have access to a diverse range of youth work opportunities and support through the delivery of a high-quality youth service, this includes:
- Universal ‘safe spaces’ in every single ward throughout the borough where young people can stay safe, participate in positive activities and educational opportunities as well as access additional support from youth workers. This will be an increase from five commissioned universal services to at least one in every ward therefore providing accessible 'safe spaces’ for all young people.
- Integrated detached youth work team providing a preventative and responsive approach to harm outside the home.
- Commissioning of specialist youth provision for specific groups of young people.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commissioning Officer to directly support the way services are delivered within a youth service setting.
You will contribute to an expert integrated commissioning function enabling the delivery of effective, high quality and innovative youth services and solutions for children and families, and provide support in all aspects of the commissioning cycle and develop subject expertise in relation to specific aspects of the commissioning cycle, specific service user groups or types of services. This will include monitoring a portfolio of contracts and/or grants with a particular focus on monitoring outcomes and managing performance against agreed standards and support the effective management of the contract performance. You will engage with users and carers to encourage and enable service users, carers, families and advocates to participate in the monitoring of contracts.
Application Details
Closing date: 4th August 2024
All applications should be made via our online application system, no CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted.
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.