Job: Contracts Officers
Post reference: POST0073
Location : home based throughout the UK or City Hall, Norwich
Salary : £29,577 - £32,234 per annum (grade 6) Hours : 37 hours per week – hours are flexible with flexitime.
Contract : This is a temporary post, currently until 31 March 2022.Closing date : 11pm on Thursday, 27 May 2021
Interview date : 8 June 2021
Norwich is a thriving city with an ambitious Council and a very busy procurement team. We buy all the goods and services for the Council and manage suppliers, tenders and contracts with an annual spend of £80M.
We are seeking additional help from an enthusiastic and experienced procurement professional to manage a large and varied procurement caseload, which will be predominantly building related. You will be a key member of our team and enjoy working with a broad range of stakeholders, suppliers, managers and colleagues. You should be methodical and happy working to public procurement regulations and the Council’s contract procedures and familiar with competitive tenders.
We would love to hear from you if you already have procurement experience or a level 3 CIPS qualification in procurement and supply (or equivalent). However, you should also get in touch if you have worked in finance or projects and have strong procurement expertise.
As you will be regularly handling data, making financial calculations and writing reports to evaluate options and make recommendations, you will need to have GCSE qualifications in Maths and English at grade C or 4 or above (or equivalent qualifications at NVQ level 2, such as CSE grade 1 or T-levels or O-levels at A-C).
As an employer, we strongly value diversity and strive to provide a working environment where everyone can thrive and is engaged and happy at work. People join us with a wide variety of previous career and life paths. We offer opportunities to everyone, don’t mind if you’ve taken a career break or been unemployed and judge each application on merit. We welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background, who are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Our people value our flexible working practices. This post could possibly be worked from home from anywhere in the UK.
If you would like to talk about the role, please contact Tracy Woods; our Business Relationship and Procurement Manager (01603 987723 or tracywoods@norwich.gov.uk) or Charlotte Spragg; our Senior Contracts Officer (01603 987696 or charlottespragg@norwich.gov.uk).
Job Description:
Person Specification:
THIS VACANCY IS FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
Post ref: TBC
Contract: Permanent
Location: Norwich City Services Ltd, Swanton Road Depot (Streets)
Hours: 37 hours per week, alternating shifts of 06:00 – 14:00 and 10:00 – 18:00
Grade: 2A
Salary: £18,104.84 per annum pro-rata
Closing date: 16 May 2021
Interview date: TBC
We currently have a vacancy for an EPA Operative in the Streets Team within NCSL.
The post will involve working within a service-driven street cleansing team. The focus of the role will be to help maintain and improve the standard of Streets, Parks, Open Spaces, Housing areas and highway verges to the required standards according to a fixed schedule agreed with Norwich City Council.
For further information please contact Martyn Ward, Operations Manager, on 01603 987938 or email Martynward@norwich.gov.uk
Job description and person specification
Interview date: To be confirmed
Hours: 37 hours per week
Grade: 1
Salary: £17,893.20 per annum pro-rata
We currently have a vacancy for a Streets and Ground Operative in the Streets Team within NCSL.
The post will involve working within a service-driven street cleansing/grounds maintenance team. The focus of the role will be to help maintain and improve the standard of Streets, Parks, Open Spaces, Housing areas and highway verges to the required standards according to a fixed schedule agreed with Norwich City Council.
Location: City Hall
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week (multiple positions)
Grade: 5
Salary: £25,991 to £28,672 per annum, pro rata
Closing date: 21 May 2021
Interview dates: 7 and 8 June 2021
Please note: previous applicants need not apply for this vacancy.
Norwich City Council believes that all residents have a right to live in a community where they feel safe and not have to experience ongoing antisocial behaviour (ASB). The council works with residents, police and other partners to help to achieve this within Norwich communities.
The council is currently recruiting a new team of ASB response officers. This team will investigate complaints made to the council, speaking with all parties involved to help resolve ASB. It will require some visits to Norwich properties, which will be conducted using protective equipment and social distancing. For some cases you will need to progress enforcement action and with others you will refer vulnerable residents to appropriate support services.
Full training will be provided on how this is delivered in Norwich, including Level 3 accreditation in ASB case management. However, you are required to have previous experience of working in the field of antisocial behaviour or be able to evidence that you have skills and experience transferrable to this area of work.
The Council is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment and welcomes applications from a broad range of people within our community. We support flexible working and are able to offer these roles on a part time or job share basis, have accessible office space and provide a range of other wellbeing and diversity initiatives.
To successfully obtain an interview you will need to evidence how you meet all of the elements within the Person Specification document.
If you are selected for interview, there will be a short desktop exercise to complete at the start of the interview.
For further information on the roles or the ASB team generally, please contact Charlotte Howell, ASB Manager, at CharlotteHowell@norwich.gov.uk.
Job description
Person specification
Contract: Temporary for up to 2 years
Hours: Full time, 37 hours
Grade: Grade 11
Salary: £49,360 to £53,390 per annum, pro-rata
Closing date: 31 May 2021
Interview date: 10 June and 14 June 2021
Norwich City Council is an ambitious, progressive, forward looking authority. Against a backdrop of reducing funding, we are determined to keep delivering high quality services for our residents and to work in partnership across our city to protect what is great and overcome the challenges we face.
Do you have the expertise, vision and leadership qualities to design and drive forward the changes we need to make as a council to enable us to keep delivering for our city?
We are looking for someone with high quality change management skills and an ability to turn a vision into a well-designed and well executed change programme, working with colleagues across the council and beyond.
You will lead and develop a small team including a programme manager, project managers, business analysts and communication officers, and work in partnership with Executive Directors, Heads of Service, HR and Finance colleagues and others to re-shape our services and council, delivering high quality modern services for our residents whilst ensuring we continue to multiply our impact in the city as a civic leader, towards our Norwich 2040 City Vision.
You will have experience of a variety of change management and service improvement techniques and tools, excellent relationship building and collaboration skills, an ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, including elected members, to champion change, facilitate difficult discussions and support colleagues on this journey.
You will understand how to deliver culture change, be able to guide colleagues in using data to identify opportunities for improvement, measure success and realise benefits, and be solutions focused to overcome the inevitable challenges we will face.
You will be an excellent people manager, supporting your team to develop their skills and deliver, and working collaboratively with our Strategy team to ensure change is driven by the council’s priorities.
For further information please contact Helen Chamberlin, Head of Strategy, Engagement and Culture, on 01603 989269 or email helenchamberlin@norwich.gov.uk
Salary: £44,863 - £48,381 per annum, pro-rata
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Contract: 12 months, fixed term
Location: City Hall, Norwich (Currently remote working)
For the first time in 20 years property services, environmental services and building maintenance for Norwich are coming back under Council control through the set up and creation of our newly formed company, Norwich City Services Ltd (NCSL).
The implementation of digital services will be crucial to the success of this new venture so the Council is looking to recruit an experienced solutions architect to establish strategies and solutions to meet our Digital First approach and ambition, to design and deliver innovative digital solutions for our customer and partners and to drive cultural change within the organisation.
Supporting the Applications Support Team Manager and Head of Customers, IT and Digital in developing the business application strategy, you will establish a holistic view of all software projects and the business’ software requirements. You will need proven project management ability with previous experience of delivering IT projects using Prince2 and Agile methodologies. Technological, digital, business and customer aspects all need to be taken into account, while working enthusiastically and collaboratively to identify, design and deliver solutions for NCSL, improving user experiences and saving money.
In addition to the essential criteria set out in the Person Specification, the following experience and knowledge is desirable:
· Previous experience of working within local or a national government or within a highly regulated industry such as insurance or banking.
· Previous experience of working on service process improvement and transformational projects.
· Experience with Azure DevOps.
· Experience of working alongside Developers, technical and business professionals. Business and technical process mapping experience.
To discuss this exciting opportunity, please contact Paul Gooch, Application support manager on 01603 987580
Please note, applicants invited to interview will be required to complete a coding/logic test as part of the selection process.
Interviews will be arranged via online video-conferencing.
Closing date: 5 April 2021
Interviews: To be confirmed
Salary: Grade 1 - £9.50 per hour (in line with Living Wage Foundation rates)
Location: Hurricane Way, Norwich
Norwich City Services Ltd are looking to recruit a Mobile Cleaning Operative to undertake specified cleaning duties to various locations as defined by the Management Team, ensuring that the necessary standards are met and operating in line with the Client and NCSL Policies and Procedures. Areas covered within this role are inclusive of but not limited to:
· Office Cleaning
· Car Park Cleaning
· Public Toilet Cleaning
· School Cleaning
· Sheltered Housing Cleaning
For more information regarding this role please view the Job description
Closing date: 31 March 2021
Hours: 15 hours per week, Saturday 7am – 4pm, Sunday 7am – 2pm
Location: Mobile (Norwich)
Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2022
Norwich CIty Services Ltd are looking to recruit a Cleaning Operative to undertake cleaning of public toilets across Norwich.
For more information please view the job description
Closing date: 18 April 2021
Interviews: TBC