Commissioning & Grants Officer

Location of Role: Maidstone

Advert Closing Date: 12/12/2024

Starting Salary: £32,337.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)

Part/Full Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Working Pattern: Mon-Fri

Weekend/Evening Working: No

An opportunity for a 12-month fixed term contract to provide maternity cover for a Commissioning and Grants Officer has arisen within the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner’s Commissioning Team. This team delivers the vital work of arranging services to support the PCC in delivering their statutory commissioning responsibilities. The PCC is responsible for commissioning and grant funding services to support victims of crime, reduce and prevent crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB). This role is key to making sure those services provide the best possible outcomes.

As Commissioning and Grants Officer, you will have a key role in ensuring services are complying with their obligations, assessing performance, risks and outcomes and identifying opportunities for development and improvement.

You will need to have a keen eye for detail, and preferably have experience within contract management, commissioning, or procurement. High level IT skills and an analytical approach are crucial to evaluate and interpret data, potentially from different sources, alongside being able to identify and understand risk to effectively monitor service provision.

You must have experience of working in partnerships, with multiple stakeholders, and be able to adapt your approach to a variety of audiences and be enthusiastic and self-motivated. You must have a structured and methodical approach and be able to deal with several competing demands in a complex environment. Naturally, you will possess strong interpersonal skills and you will be confident in both writing reports and presenting to senior managers. You should also be educated to A-level or equivalent.

Experience in a policing environment, or having a project management qualification, would be beneficial.

Kent OPCC offers smarter working which designates that certain roles can have flexibility in terms of place of work, including the potential to work from home for those who would like to.

The specific requirements of this role will be discussed during the interview stages with candidates. If home working is agreed for the successful candidate, there will be a requirement to regularly attend a contractual workplace, as agreed with the line manager.

Kent Police offer incremental increases within this salary band, therefore the salary for this position will rise to a maximum of £37,932.00.

You must complete a line manager form for your application to this role before applying. Please download and complete the line manager form and attach this to your application form before submitting it using the "Manager Endorsement" file upload field at the start of your application. Please note submitted applications to this role will not be considered without a completed line manager form attached . If you anticipate difficulty obtaining a response from your line manager within the required time frame, please speak to your Head of Department or your HR Adviser.

Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.

All of our posts require a level of vetting and security clearance. During the recruitment process you will be sent vetting information forms to complete.

Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.

Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at recruitment.business.services@ecis.police.uk stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833.

Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.

This post is open to

British Citizens
Members of a European Economic Area (EEA) state who hold settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.

Commonwealth citizens or foreign nationals (who are not British citizens or European Economic Area (EEA) state members) who have leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for an indefinite period that is free from restrictions.

All applicants (except those who have been serving abroad with the British Armed Forces) must have lived in the UK continuously for the past three years.

Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.