Contract Adviser (Education) - Waverley Court - EDN29469

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Contract Adviser - Education
Waverley Court

Salary: £32,010 - £37,626
Hours: 36 per week

An exciting opportunity has become available for flexible and dynamic individual to join the Children, Education and Justice Services (CEJS) Commissioning Team as a Contract Adviser.

This key supporting role contributes to the development, negotiation, evaluation, and implementation of strategic plans and policies for all commissioned services within the CEJS Service Area.

The successful candidate will be able to work to tight timescales and will require strong communication and organisational skills, alongside robust IT competency.

An understanding of the Edinburgh Imperatives, Edinburgh Learns for Life, Finance for Equity vision, mission and goals as the strategic frameworks for education, in pursuance of the City Vision 2050 is required.

They will be able to evidence an extensive knowledge of the goods and service requirements in Education.

Key areas of work include:

• Supporting work to ensure that all commissioned services meet the statutory requirements of the Council and deliver effective services based on the Council priorities reflecting the demographic and service needs of the learners and wider client groups.
• Participating in the collection of specialist, detailed knowledge of current practice within the client groups. This will include spend analysis and contract research of existing suppliers.
• Contract monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of commissioned services to ensure organisations are fulfilling their contractual service outputs and obligations and meeting customer need.
• Promoting good practice across the Directorate through contributing to the development and monitoring of detailed service standards and practice guidance

The successful candidate will be required to obtain a Basic Disclosure Scotland certificate prior to commencing.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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