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Administration Support Officer - Strategic Investment

Part time - 15 hours per week (working days flexible)

Are you a strong administrator, with a good working knowledge of financial processes, including raising purchase orders and processing invoices for payment? Do you also possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail?

An exciting opportunity exists within our Strategic Investment Team at Braintree District Council, to work closely with and support our Project Managers in ensuring that existing and potential high value projects are delivered on time and within budget. This is a part time position working 15 hours per week, with flexibility regarding the working days.

Key to your role, you will be responsible for monitoring and recording the payment and coding of all invoices and checking against purchase orders. You will also be responsible for reconciling and reporting on project-related financial matters and will take the lead in implementing and managing a compliant filing system. As part of your daily role, you will also need to answer general telephone calls and arrange and take minutes at meetings.

With the ability to work as part of a team in a busy environment, you will be highly organised and pro-active in your approach, able to manage, balance and meet challenging deadlines in an ever changing environment.

You will have excellent IT skills, including good working knowledge of creating and updating Excel spreadsheets and using Word documents.

Further details for this role can be found in the Job Profile.

Why choose Braintree District Council?

Braintree is an ambitious forward thinking Council and is becoming one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England with three growing towns, London just 45 minutes away and the district located directly between the international transport centres of Stansted Airport and Harwich and Felixstowe International Ports. We have a deserved track record for delivering and a strong reputation within the business community.

Braintree District Council is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on our creative and innovative approach which is led by our staff. We are committed to having an engaged workforce who understand our strategy and how they can help deliver it. Some of the benefits of working for Braintree District Council are:

Our benefits include:

- Flexible working

- Free parking

- Local government pension scheme

- Learning and development for all staff

- Staff discounts at local businesses

- Staff recognition schemes

- Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership.

For further information about this vacancy and to apply online, please visit

www.braintree.gov.uk - please note this is a part-time role of 15 hours per week.

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: Sunday 8th March 2020.

Interviews will be held w/c 16th March 2020.

• Location:: Braintree
• Salary:: £19,752 - £22,689 per annum pro rata
• Job reference:: BREQ0057
• Application closing date:: 08/03/2020

Administration Support Officer - Strategic Investment:Apply online

Senior Project Manager - Strategic Investment

Be a part of an exciting wave of transformation and help shape the Councils approach to Strategic Investment, with some major projects in the pipeline and the launch of our new Corporate Strategy, this is a great time to join our forward thinking ambitious authority.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with a successful track record of leading and delivering capital projects across various sectors including commercial, residential, healthcare and transport.

With line management responsibility for the Project Support Officer(s) and Administration team, you will lead by example and support, coach and mentor them and other Project Managers in the team, with a number of high profile projects forming part of our GBP 100 million investment portfolio. These include a GBP 30 million town centre regeneration project and a 65 acre business and innovation park. You will be personally responsible for managing a range of projects from inception to completion and ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.

Working together with the wider team, you will appoint and direct a multi-disciplinary professional team to deliver projects. You will require strong leadership, negotiation and communications skills and have experience of undertaking procurement processes and evaluating tenders.

In this role, the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, members, key stakeholders and partners is crucial and integral to the delivery of successful high-quality outcomes.

Further details for this role can be found in the Job Profile.

Why choose Braintree District Council?

We're ambitious, innovative, have great people and a strong stable leadership.

We are one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England. As a Council our role is as a guardian of the place and its people, where residents live well in healthy and resilient communities, a well-connected district with high-quality homes delivered with the infrastructure and a place which attracts and provides good employment opportunities.

For an informal chat about this role, please call Aidan Kelly, Head of Strategic Investment on 01376 552525.

For further information about this vacancy, please visit www.braintree.gov.uk

To apply, please send a CV (no more than 3 A4 pages) and covering letter (no more than 2 A4 pages) to humanresources@braintree.gov.uk

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: Sunday 23rd February 2020, midnight.

Interviews will be held w/c 2nd March 2020.

• Location:: Braintree
• Salary:: £55,110 - £60,336 per annum
• Job reference:: BREQ0059
• Application closing date:: 23/02/2020

Senior Project Manager - Strategic Investment:Apply online

Customer Services Apprentice

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Customer Services Team in an Apprenticeship Role for a 12-14 month period. A successful candidate will work towards achieving a Level 2 qualification in Customer Services.

The successful candidate will act as the first point of contact, for both internal and external customers, who visit our Reception Area and also contact the Customer Service Centre via telephone, text and electronically.

The team offer advice and assistance to customers on a wide variety of subjects that are dealt with by Braintree District Council, ranging from Environmental, Waste, Recycling, Planning, Housing, Benefits and Council Tax, plus many more.

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, enthusiastic and used to working as part of a team, whilst also using their own initiative.

They will need to:

Be a Customer Champion for customers accessing services provided by Braintree District Council.
Liaise with customers via telephone, face to face and electronically.
Greet visitors and respond to all customers' requirements in a positive, prompt, efficient, courteous and helpful manner.
Provide customers with information using the council's computer systems/intranet/internet.
Flexible and willing to learn.
Manage customers in the reception area.
Deal with non-Braintree District Council enquiries e.g. Essex County Council and liaise with nominated contacts as appropriate.
Strong customer service skills, whilst being polite and helpful, to both internal and external customers at all times.
Good knowledge of Microsoft Software e.g. Word and Excel. Full training and support will be provided.

It is desirable that you have at least 5 GCSE's from A*-C or 4-9, particularly in English and Maths.

Further details can be found in the Job Profile.

If you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Anita Norgett on 01376 552525.

• Location:: Braintree
• Salary:: £7,527 per annum - Apprentice National Minimum Wage
• Job reference:: BREQ0058
• Application closing date:: 23/02/2020

Customer Services Apprentice:Apply online

Senior Procurement Consultant

Two posts available - one permanent post and one fixed-term (12 months)

Both full-time, 37 hours per week

Braintree District Council operates a shared procurement service known as the Essex Procurement Hub for a number of local authorities across the county of Essex.

An exciting opportunity exists for two Senior Procurement professionals, with a successful track record of leading and providing advice on procurement activity at all stages, to join the team.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for supplier identification & qualification, tender process and contract award. Taking a lead role for procurement on behalf of the council(s) you are assigned to manage, you will approach service spend proactively and will recognise areas for improvement and lead on recommendations. Whilst championing best practice procurement, you will assist in developing procurement and contract strategies, leading on identified contracts and driving improvements, to ensure the delivery of robust high quality services.

You will support the development and implementation of contract management and performance monitoring for strategic, corporate and other projects and contracts, including supplier management and stakeholder compliance. You will undertake market, product, and supplier analysis to establish a base of knowledge about existing and potential opportunities / requirements. You will also assist in the undertaking and letting of national procurement frameworks for use by all UK public bodies and lead on the contract and supplier management of the suppliers contracted under our national frameworks.

Key to this role, you will have proven knowledge and experience in the use and delivery of up to date and professional procurement techniques (preferably in the public sector environment) accompanied by a sound understanding of EU procurement directives. A demonstrable track record in delivering cost reduction and cashable savings through appropriate sourcing, contract management and supplier management tools and techniques is essential.

Further details for this role can be found in the Job Profile.

Why choose Braintree District Council?

We're ambitious, innovative, have great people and a strong stable leadership.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Paula Jarvis, Senior Procurement Consultant on 01376 551414.

For further information about this vacancy and to apply, please visit www.braintree.gov.uk

Closing date for receipt of completed applications: Sunday 23rd February 2020.

Interviews will be held 27th and 28th February 2020.

• Location:: Braintree
• Salary:: £47,760 - £52,311 per annum
• Job reference:: BREQ0055
• Application closing date:: 23/02/2020

Senior Procurement Consultant:Apply online