The Role
Southwark’s Culture team is responsible for delivering a range of high profile services including library and heritage services, arts and events, youth and adventure play provision to the local community. It has a vibrant arts and events programme involving many local cultural organisations, a newly refreshed youth service offer and provides one of the highest performing library services across London.
The service is committed to achieving the Council’s vision of a fairer future for all and delivery of its key priorities including improving literacy, promoting health and wellbeing, proactive community engagement with hard to reach groups, working for everyone to realise their own potential, supporting families and a strong commitment to equalities, diversity and inclusion. These are exciting times for the service with new Culture and Library strategies in development helping to shape the future direction of the service for the benefit of all in the community and work to achieve the Council’s vision for 2030.
An opportunity has arisen for recruitment to the post of Senior Contracts and Performance Officer to deal with contract and performance management across the Culture division. The post involves leading on the procurement and monitoring of all contracts including library stock supply contract, building maintenance contracts and lease agreements, managing all aspects of health and safety across the teams, compilation, monitoring and analysis of key performance data to inform service delivery, planning and development across cultural services.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
About You:
As a senior member of the Culture team you will contribute towards the policy and planning to develop the services and deliver to key corporate plans and ensure performance management targets and objectives are met.
For this role we are looking for a confident and skilled person who can provide initiative and contribute ideas, with good analytical skills, an ability to foster partnership working, and deliver on projects, preferably with some experience of working in libraries or associated cultural services. Experience of using a library management database system would also be desirable.
Additional Information:
The role is full time 36 hours per week, with occasional weekend working as required. It is a permanent post.
Benefits and more information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
Recruitment timetable
Advert Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 3rd November 2023
Interview Date: 13 November 2023
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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