Overview
Commissioning Manager – INTERNAL NNC & CHILDREN’S TRUST APPLICANTS ONLY – 0
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
We have an exciting 6-month secondment opportunity for an experienced Commissioning Manager to play a leading role in delivering North Northamptonshire’s Family Hubs Transformation Programme.
This role will be central to shaping and embedding the Family Hubs model, ensuring services are joined-up, accessible, and responsive to the needs of children, young people, and families. You will commission high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective services across key strands of the transformation, including:
• Parenting support
• The home learning environment
• Infant feeding
• Perinatal mental health and parent–infant relationships
You will bring advanced knowledge of commissioning, co-production, and monitoring and evaluation, alongside strong skills in community engagement, partnership working, and stakeholder management. Working collaboratively with providers, colleagues, and partners, you will oversee provider performance, manage micro-tenders and grants, and ensure services deliver real impact for local communities.
This is a hybrid role, with a base at Sheerness House in Kettering. The successful applicant will need to travel across North Northamptonshire, as and when required.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity in more detail, please contact Sorayah Mbuthia, Interim Family Hubs Strategic Commissioner, at Sorayah.mbuthia@northnorthants.gov.uk
Advert closing date: Sunday 12th October
Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 20th October
About you
Education, Qualifications and Training
Essential Criteria
- Evidence of education to degree level of equivalent
- A professional qualification relating to commissioning, public health, health or social care or evidence of wide-ranging knowledge about the legislation, national strategy and needs of public health provided services gained through substantial practitioner experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential Criteria
- A thorough understanding of commissioning and procurement
- Demonstration of direct responsibilities for budgets, service delivery and people management.
- Recent, proven experience of effective inter-agency working.
- Experience of effective project management.
- Understanding of departmental usage of information systems and aptitude to utilise information technology.
- Numerate and literate – able to develop costed business cases and to draft papers for different audiences (for example).
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of sexual health and/or 0 – 19 commissioning
Ability and Skills
Essential Criteria
- An ability to commission new and innovative services e.g. in accordance with new government policies and requirements
- Able to effectively manage significant budgets within financial constraints and regulations
- Good organisational and problem-solving skills
- Articulate and able to communicate well both orally and in writing
- Report writing and verbal reasoning ability sufficient to write and present reports including Cabinet and Scrutiny Committee reports and to draft service specifications
- Able to demonstrate reliability and ability to deliver to deadlines
- Ability to work on own initiative, seeking advice when appropriate
- Demonstrate ability to travel effectively to different locations
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of finance and financial systems
Equal Opportunities
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
Additional Factors
- Able to demonstrate a clear understanding and commitment to health and Safety and a willingness to undertake training to enable implementation of procedures.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
