The role
The Role:
Project Support Officer (Education) – Improving Mental Health & Resilience in Schools (IMHARS) Programme
Are you passionate about making a difference in children’s, young people’s and families’ lives, especially to their personal development, emotional wellbeing and mental health?
Do you have experience of managing and communicating with various stakeholders and partners across different organisations?
Do you want to play a key role in the effective implementation, delivery and evaluation of the IMHARS project plans, including the strategic and operational messaging to Southwark’s schools, nurseries and colleges?
The Project Support Officer (Education) is responsible for organising, coordinating and delivering the administrative and project support functions related to the delivery of the “Improving Mental Health & Resilience in Schools (IMHARS)” Programme in Education.
Working effectively with senior managers and external partners, is a varied role for a multi-skilled team player. You will be involved in working collaboratively and cooperatively - often within and across Council Directorates, project teams and stakeholder groups - to gather information and coordinate IMHARS programme and project work, in addition to contributing to the development of professional networks.
You’ll be willing to get stuck in and work across multiple project priorities – your passion for the school improvement and making a difference to pupils in education consistently shining through.
If this is you, please apply to join our team.
You must have:
- Excellent project coordination, analytical and communications skills to support the planning, preparation, implementation, delivery and evaluation of project deliverables.
- Great people skills, to be able to get the information you need, in the way that you need it, at the right time, from a wide range of busy people who might not have you at the top of their priority list
- Excellent organisational skills: to manage a busy, ever- changing list of project tasks
- A love of deadlines: meeting them and setting them
- A passion for working on challenging, meaningful, high-profile projects and programmes
In return, you will get to work for a busy, dynamic team, seeking to change the ways we support schools across the borough.
Southwark offers a generous annual leave policy, flexibility with home working, and opportunities for career development.
As an incredibly diverse London borough, we strongly encourage applications from communities representative of our residents.
This opportunity is open to internal and external candidates. We would also consider secondments.
Additional details
Please note this role is being offered on a fixed-term contract basis for a duration of 9 months.
Application Process:
If you are interested in applying for this role, please complete the application form and submit your suitability for the role, by using the Personal Specification to highlight your skills. The Personal Specification can be found at the bottom of this page under attachments.
Benefits:
Additional salary details
About Southwark:
As a council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to tackling injustice, inequalities and rebuilding our local economy following the pandemic, ensuring that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
As a diverse central London borough Southwark faces a range of challenges which we aim to address through the delivery of the Borough Plan. We are looking for candidates to join our passionate and forward-thinking team to help us continue to make Southwark an inclusive borough for all our communities.
Southwark Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Recruitment timetable
Recruitment Timetable
- Live advert Monday 4 Oct 2021
- Closing Date: Monday 18 Oct 2021
- Interview Date and Assessments: Thursday 4 Nov 2021
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