Programme Support Officer – Redcar and Cleveland
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
01/05/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 16/05/2024 23:59
Salary:
£25,000 subject to experience
Job Category:
Early Years Children Services
Employment Location:
We work across Dormanstown, Grangetown, Southbank, Kirkleatham and Eston. Most of your time will be onsite in Redcar, with some opportunity for home working.
Further Information
Are you a senior administrator looking for a new opportunity to thrive?
Look at our work https://thriveatfive.org.uk to consider if our mission, vision, values, and approach align with yours.
ABOUT THRIVE AT FIVE
Thrive at Five’s vision is a society where every child can thrive and achieve their potential. Our mission is to help children in their early years develop strong foundations for life and learning. Focusing on some of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities, our place-based model support’s positive development from pregnancy to five. We achieve sustainable change by unlocking the power of parents and carers and enabling collaboration to strengthen early years systems.
Why do we need Thrive at Five:
Parents and carers, and their children, often struggle because the system of support around them is fragmented. Strategies for support are sometimes developed in a piecemeal fashion, without sufficient reference to what the evidence and data (including, critically, the views of parents) tell us about needs and how best to address them. The result is that the support can be ineffective (as a gap grows between services and the community) and, often, too short term. We do things to families rather than doing things with them, and so fail to harness the power of parents and communities.
Currently, it is nobody’s job to join-up early years support in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and to foster stronger links between services and the community. Building on the lessons from other initiatives, Thrive at Five seeks to address these issues with a long-term and sustainable solution.
Thrive at Five’s Approach:
Our approach combines two strategic drivers:
• Unlocking the power of parents and carers to give their children the nurturing care and supportive environments they need.
• Enabling collaborative action within and across the public, private and voluntary sectors to coordinate and strengthen early years systems, practices, and pathways of support from pregnancy to the end of the first year at school.
Underpinning our approach is the focus put on building and strengthening trusted relationships between communities and services which is critical to aligning agendas and engaging parents with the support they need.
We start by helping our partner organisations to look at their data to understand what children and families need and to find things that are working well. Capturing the views of parents and carers is essential. We use this information to codesign and implement solutions, delivered by a range of local stakeholders, which will improve the provision of support.
We also support a range of activities to reach and engage parents to increase their knowledge and skills and encourage them to seek support when they need it. We are committed to reach all parents, particularly those who do not engage with services and support and whose voices are seldom heard.
Together with our partners we also find ways to strengthen the system and upskill the early years workforce. All our work incorporates processes to monitor and refine implementation, to ensure the support offered is responsive to and embedded within local contexts. Ongoing evaluation is delivered by our external evaluators and our internal Learning and Impact team.
Putting the approach into practice:
Thrive at Five ensures the collective effort of our partners simultaneously targets and improves five intermediate outcomes, all of which are stepping stones towards children developing strong foundations for life and learning. Every workstream is considered with sustainability, scale, and our Theory of Change in mind.
The Five Intermediate outcomes underpinning our work are.
i) Children’s early Communication and Language Development
ii) Attachment and Parenting Responsiveness
iii) Levels of Parental Wellbeing
iv) The quality of children’s early Home Learning Environments
v) The quality of Early Education and Care
JOB PURPOSE
As Programme Support Officer you will work with the Thrive at Five team providing dynamic, effective administrative support and coordination to support us in making a difference to the lives of children and their families.
This will include developing and implementing new systems, policies, and procedures to ensure the programme runs effectively; managing diaries, calendars, and schedules to ensure effective programme coordination; preparing resources and materials to support the delivery of effective training, workshops, and meetings; liaising directly with internal and external stakeholders; and tracking programme progress and performance.
You should be able to support the senior leaders and ensure our day-to-day administrative operations run smoothly.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
1. Support team members with daily clerical tasks.
• Plan meetings and take detailed minutes / action logs where appropriate.
• Undertake diary management, schedule appointments and update calendar.
• Compose and type regular correspondence, like invitations and informative material to stakeholders and parents.
• Processing purchase orders, invoices, and payments in accordance with the organisation’s financial controls.
• Lead on the development and maintain a comprehensive electronic filing system and other databases as required and in compliance with GDPR.
• Support recruitment process.
• Office management including booking office space and managing the storage of Thrive at Five equipment.
• Create spreadsheets and presentations, including their design.
• Support the team to provide statistical and other reports detailing activity.
• Develop, implement, and improve office and administrative policies and procedures.
• Undertake event planning and delivery support function with others where necessary.
In negotiation and linked to annual appraisal and agreed personal development plans to pick up additional duties and tasks relevant to the role.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
1. Previous experience of Administration
High level skills in Microsoft software (including Teams, excel and PowerPoint) and experience using design software e.g., Canva or similar.
• An enhanced DBS checks.
• Good time keeping.
• Flexibility to work across a range of places in Redcar as well as home working.
• Good people skills, a friendly disposition and ability to collaborate with parents in positive and constructive ways.
• An understanding of child and adult safeguarding.
• Access to car and ability to travel.
• Willing to develop a good knowledge of existing pathways and services that can support children’s development and parenting practice.
• Able to participate in any training offer that is made available.
• Good people skills.
• Positive and can-do attitude.
• A willing collaborator and team player.
Please apply by submitting your CV (2-page max including name of two referees) and a 500-word supporting statement explaining why you would be a good fit for the role and for our organisation to Allan.brownrigg@thriveatfive.org.uk
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an in-person interview.
Closing date, Thursday 16th May and interviews taking place week beginning 27 May 2024
Please note
This job is closed for applications.