Project Support Officer

Role Responsibility

Kent County Council Highways and Transportation (H&T) are looking to recruit a suitable candidate to their Contracts and Commissioning Support Team. This is an ideal time to play a major part in developing the future and becoming involved in contract management for the business.

The Contract and Commissioning Support Team are part of the Business Services unit who provide services to the whole of Highway & Transportation. As part of your role you will be involved in some key contracts such as:

• The Highway Term Maintenance Contract that delivers services such as improving the highway network, gritting our roads in winter, filling in potholes and responding to emergencies.
• The Professional Services Framework Contract that has four professional consultancy companies who provide a wide range of professional services within the Local Authority boundaries of Kent and Medway. This provides a flexible, resilient mechanism to procure multi-disciplinary technical expertise.

This full-time role will have a primary base at County Hall, Invicta House, Maidstone and will include flexible working. You will be provided with the appropriate tools to allow working from home or at any of KCC’s other offices.

Whilst knowledge of Microsoft software packages is fundamental to this job, training will be given to improve these skills together with learning new contract management packages that are used.

If you have the ability to succeed in this role, are able to prioritise competing demands and objectives coupled with diplomacy and experience of managing projects in a complex environment, you could be the person we are looking for.

In return we offer a generous pension, extensive training opportunities and a flexible approach to working.

This post 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.

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

Interview date(s): 1^st February and 2^nd February 2022 by Teams or alternatively a face-to-face meeting subject to controls can be arranged in Maidstone.

Contact Details

Terrie Coake

Interim Contracts and Commissioning Team Leader

03000 416 982

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.