Project Officer

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

This vacancy is open to internal applicants of North Northamptonshire Council Only.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small dynamic team supporting and managing the work of Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NSCP). 

The NSCP is led by the four local strategic safeguarding partners (North Northamptonshire Council, West Northamptonshire Council, Northamptonshire Care Board and Northamptonshire Police), along with Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of local children including identifying and responding to their needs.  

The purpose of these local arrangements is to support and enable local agencies to work together in a system where: 

What will you be doing?

This is a full-time permanent role and involves working with a wide range of stakeholders to co-ordinate the partnership’s safeguarding priorities and workstreams through the administrative management of dedicated multi-agency subgroups including Training & Development, Safeguarding Participation and Collaborative Engagement and Child Exploitation, as well as being flexible and proactive to other partnership requests. 

About you

You will need to have a good knowledge of children’s safeguarding, as well as proven experience in scheduling, co-ordinating and minuting meetings to a high standard. 

You will be able to work under your own initiative and be able to prioritise your work under the pressure of competing workstreams and also be a team player, supportive to your work colleagues.

Knowledge of co-ordinating training events would be useful as well as an understanding of digital design and creativity.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)