The role
About Southwark
Southwark is an ambitious, vibrant, culturally diverse and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We value our people, celebrate diversity and seek to find effective and creative ways of supporting our communities. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promises, which ensure that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
The role
The Children and Adults Systems Team (ChAD) is part of the Commissioning Division for Children’s and Adults Services. The team sits alongside our Procurement, Strategic Programmes and Contract Management Team as part of the Quality, Performance and Transformation function.
The ChAD team includes systems maintenance, business analysis and helpdesk function and the team has an ambitious programme of improvement projects for our two main systems Mosaic for Children's and Adults Social Care and Capita One for Education. We are looking for a Project Manager to support our Business Transformation Manager (ICT) on delivering these improvements.
Experience of project management in an ICT context is essential as is experience in at least one of our two systems.
About You
You will be an ICT projects expert able to drive work forward on your own initiative and able to inspire confidence in stakeholders and suppliers. Experience of social care or education would be an advantage.
For an informal discussion, please contact Gretl.vandemerwe@southwark.gov.uk
Benefits and more information:
Please note it is Southwark policy to offer new posts at the start point of the grade for external candidates.
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
Additional salary details
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing date: 28/8/2022
Interview date: 9/9/2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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