Contracts and Payments Support Officer

Job Introduction

Are you interested in learning about commissioning and making a difference to the lives of children and families across the borough? If so, this new role in the Integrated Commissioning Team in Children’s Services could be for you! We are recruiting for a Contracts and Payments Support Officer to join our team. This post is being offered as a 12-18 month fixed term or secondment opportunity for internal candidates. Please ensure that you have your line manager’s support if you are intending to apply for the role as a secondment opportunity.

The post holder will work as part of the Integrated Commissioning Team and will have the opportunity to play a key role in the administration and support for some of our largest contracts that deliver services to families right across the borough as well as to learn about personalised commissioning for children in our care.

You will provide proactive, comprehensive and effective business and administrative support to the commissioning teams with all aspects of contracting and monitoring of contracts and other agreements. The tasks will include, but not limited to contract document management, contract data verification, raising of purchase orders, checking and processing of invoices and liaison with commissioned providers. The postholder will work supporting commissioners across the team, who collectively commission services for children and families across the Borough. This includes contracts spanning a range of sectors and services, with values from a few thousand up to several million.  You would need to have advanced skills in using MS office suite (including Outlook and Teams) and have a high attention to detail when working with complex data.  A ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to work as part of a team as well as unsupervised, is essential.

Make a difference to our children’s futures, your future and ours. Apply today.

Please view the Job description and Person specification for more information about this vacancy.

Interviews will take place w/c 25th August 

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Mandeep Bhogal at

Mandeep.Bhogal@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated. 

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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