Partnerships and Funding Officer
Role Purpose:
- To be responsible for key performance and monitoring of OPCC commissioned services and highlight concerns to the Head of Commissioning.
- To develop performance frameworks in line with the annual planning priorities.
- To advise the Police and Crime Commissioner and his senior team on matters relating to planning, performance and commissioning policy.
- To manage consultation and engagement with OPCC partners and commissioned service providers.
- To manage the Police and Crime Commissioner’s response to requests for funding from the public and partners.
- Highlight any potential funding opportunities aligned to the Police and Crime Plan.
- To provide effective liaison between the Police and Crime Commissioner, the force, relevant partners/stakeholders and other organisations where the Police and Crime Commissioner is represented.
- To support the Head of Commissioning to deliver commissioning change projects ensuring that deadlines are met, and products are delivered to a high quality and within time scales.
- Within this work, the post holder will have the responsibility to identify, assess, recommend and implement organisational change, financial investment, new services and business process changes which ensure the capability to deliver the objectives linked to the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan within a fluctuating fiscal landscape.
You will be required to demonstrate in your application the minimum requirement for the role:
- Educated to degree/HND level or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience of commissioning, contract management, or a related field.
- The ability to construct, from several sources, detailed operational and financial projections.
- An ability to understand complex issues, reducing them to their essential elements and being able to identify, assess implications, evaluate and manage risks and opportunities.
- Experience of assimilating and interpreting large quantities of data, providing management information / statistics.
- Highly developed inter-personal skills with the ability to build and maintain a comprehensive network of contacts in and outside of North Wales Police.
- Excellent organisational skills, together with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
- Good understanding of Excel.
Please familiarise yourself with the Post Profile and the Recruitment Guide before you apply as this has information to help you with your application.
As this is a temporary secondment opportunity, interested applicants must discuss the application with their line manager and obtain agreement from their Senior Management Team that their substantive post can be held for them for the duration of the secondment. Applications cannot be considered without this agreement.
