Financial Hardship Project Officer

Role Responsibility

We are looking for candidates to fill the roles of Financial Hardship Project Officer for the Financial Hardship Programme, Strategic & Corporate Services - Strategy, Policy, Relationships and Corporate Assurance (ST- SPRCA). Please see the attached job description. The role is to be based at Sessions House Maidstone, however due to Coronavirus, you will initially be expected to work from home. 

For internal applicants this would be a Secondment opportunity. 

The Role

This is a newly created and high profile role which supports the Financial Hardship Project Managers deliver a programme of complex projects.

You will be expected to liaise with colleagues within KCC and partners outside of KCC, utilise project management methodologies to support the Project Managers in ensuring that all projects are delivered effectively and under an effective communications strategy, to the required standard within the agreed deadlines, and be ready to deputise for Project Managers at senior level meetings if needed.

You will have experience of working in the local government sector or for partner agencies and experience of working on projects relating to the voluntary sector and local government and/or financial hardship or similar. Sound knowledge of KCC’s current work responding to Covid19 and financial hardship is preferable but not essential.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This role is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews scheduled to take place week commencing 09 August 2021.

Contact Details

For further information about the role please contact:

Tim Woolmer:  tim.woolmer@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.