Job Description

Job Introduction

Role Purpose

BCP Council is seeking a talented and dedicated Project Officer to join our dynamic team. The role will be supporting our Greenspaces Team to deliver its Plan for Play. The Council's Plan for Play is a strategy that sets out how our play infrastructure should be managed, designed and improved. This project officer role will be supporting the delivery of the 3.9m investment in play.

Plan for Play Vision

: "To provide high quality, accessible, safe and inclusive play spaces, where everyone of all abilities, across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, can learn, have fun and be active through play.


All ages and abilities should feel safe, confident and excited to use our play spaces as part of leading fulfilled lives with brighter futures."



BCP Projects | Plan for Play across BCP

About the role

Working within the Council's Programme & Project Management function you'll be part of a team who support a host of projects across the Council. You'll support and progress projects and workstreams, working closely with Programme and Project Managers to reorganise, transform, relocate or extend innovative solutions to enable the Council(s) to achieve best possible organisational performance.



Details;

Project Officer Fixed Term for 18 Months 22 hours per week BCP Band H: 34,314 (pro rata'd to 3 days a week)


You'll use your experience, skills and BCP Council's project framework to deliver on time, and within budget. Typically, duties will include:

To deliver transformation and change projects, providing support from design to completion using a structured project management approach. To develop robust implementation plans and documentation, including rationale for change, implementation tasks, methods of financial control and risk management. To provide effective and accurate progress reports and make recommendations as appropriate for the project on a regular basis to the Senior Responsible Officer or Project Board. To undertake procurement and tendering of internal and external contractors, goods, and services in line with the Corporate Procurement Strategy and Financial Regulations when required. To work in a joined up way with other team members, colleagues in services delivering programmes of work, other internal stakeholder groups and, if relevant, agencies or partners working to achieve the vision for the new operating model.

Our Commitment

BCP Council operates on a strong and consistent foundation for delivering projects against a framework. Typically, many of our projects adhere to a 5-stage project life cycle that ensures the management of diverse projects with clarity and effectiveness.

Application Process

For further information, or for an informal chat, please contact our Strategic Lead for Greenspaces and Conservation Martin Whitchurch: Martin.Whitchurch@bcpcouncil.gov.uk

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website



As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.



We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.



Join us at BCP Council and be a part of shaping the future of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole. Your expertise will drive the success of our strategic and operational objectives, improving the quality of life for our residents. We look forward to your application.