Vacancy Details

The role and requirements

We are offering an opportunity for a Programme Support Officer to work in the management office of our social care programme which helps councils and local systems support their local communities. These include whole population health and wellbeing, high quality, sustainable and personalised care, adult safeguarding, learning disabilities and autism, leadership, finance, public health and prevention, digital care technology and service innovation, implementation of social care reform proposals, vaccines deployment, social care workforce planning.

Your background/about you

The role requires an individual who can: work independently across multiple projects at any one time, routinely keep project information and records up to date, update and analyse spreadsheets, produce reports, chase external stakeholders for information, plan and prepare meetings and workshops, organise and host in person & online meetings and  events, take minutes and follow up on actions all to corporate guidelines and standards.

Strong candidates will demonstrate experience of:

• project management arrangements including developing plans, monitoring milestone progress, reporting on deliverables.
• managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Successful applicants will need to be:

• team players who are flexible and capable of working with minimal supervision
• well organised with the ability to plan and deliver a varied workload
• highly capable and well-motivated
• excellent communicators
• have strong interpersonal skills; and
• excellent attention to detail.

To apply

If you would like to be considered for this role, please submit your expression of interest in which you should respond to the requirements listed above.

If you have any queries regarding this role; please contact Peter Morgan peter.morgan@local.gov.uk

Closing Date:         5pm, 9 May 2024
Interview Date:     Week commencing 13 May 2024

At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit. The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”.  If you are require  an reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have. Please contact us via HRandPayroll@local.gov.uk 

Our benefits

• LGA annual leave entitlement is 29 days, rising to 31 days after three years’ service and to 33 days after five years’ service, plus all UK public holidays (pro rata for fixed term and part time contracts).*
• Flexible & agile working – office-based staff are required to work in the LGA’s London office two days per week as a minimum, subject to business need and this may vary significantly between different roles and from week to week.
• Future development – face-to-face and virtual courses are scheduled in line with developmental goals
• The LGA offers 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.
• Family friendly policies

For more of LGA’s benefits and working with us, please view our webpage https://www.local.gov.uk/benefits-and-working-lga

Our values & behaviours 

Our Values and Behaviours are there to give us an understanding of who we are as an organisation and who we want to be. They are a framework to help us understand:

• how we work with each other 
• how we work with our members and stakeholders
• our expectations for ourselves and each other 

Our values are:

Inclusive - We ensure that our work is inclusive of all voices. 

Ambitious - We are ambitious for councils and their communities and are committed to striving for excellence in all that we do to support our colleagues, our membership and the sector to deliver the best possible outcomes.

Collaborative - We bring together the expertise and skills needed, working as one team.