Contract Type: Permanent

 

Salary: Grade E. SCP 11 £25,979 to SCP 16 £28,282 

 

Hours: 36 Hours per Week

 

Base Location: Hyde Town Hall, Corporation Street, Hyde, SK14 1AL

 

Closing Date: Monday 22nd April 2024

 

Assessment Date: To be arranged

 

The Early Education Funding Team is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic self-motivated individual with the right qualities to join a small hard working team as an Early Education Funding Officer. 

 

This role is key to ensuring the Early Education Funding Team is supported through your excellent organisational, administrative and communication skills.  They will ensure the administration of the diverse and complex funding regime’s to local providers of childcare, in particular the Free Entitlement Funding for under 2’s 2, 3 and 4 year olds.

 

The post holder will need to have:

 

o Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a good telephone manner, and used to problem solving and managing operational queries 

o Ability to adapt and pick up new skills quickly, and able to interpret and follow  procedures precisely

o Excellent attention to detail with the ability to identify errors or irregularities

o A good understanding of financial processes linked to large scale payments

o Ability to support and advise childcare providers on the quality and technical elements of funding regimes and their submissions

o Excellent IT skills, as you will need to have the ability to use a variety of Microsoft IT packages including excel, word and outlook at an intermediate/advanced level.  

o To also have experience of the use of databases is desirable as Tameside use external software to administrate the funding

o Highly motivated, committed and enthusiastic, you will possess excellent customer service skills and be well organised as you will need to work to tight and challenging or conflicting deadlines

o You will be expected to work independently, in a fast paced environment using your own initiative but also able to positively contribute to working as part of the team.

 

Flexibility with the ability to multi-task, organise and prioritise your workload are essential along with a desire to undertake professional development and training opportunities.

 

For all posts, you maybe required to work flexibly including very occasional evening/weekend work.

 

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

 

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.  We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. 

 

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

 

For an informal discussion please contact Jacqueline Nurney on 0161 342 2384.

This position is subject to Basic Disclosure Procedures. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.  Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

 

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

 

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