Monitoring Officer

Job Title: Monitoring Officer

Rate of Pay: £16.06 per hour (Inside IR35)

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: Sandwell Council House (Oldbury)

Start Date: ASAP

Contract type: Temporary

Job Description and Personnel Specification are attached, which also provides more information above the role.

Brief description:

Sandwell Council's partnership with the voluntary and community sector is vital to delivering the ambitions of Vision 2030, and our grant programme provides support to organisations in the local area to provide key activities and services to our communities. The Voluntary Sector Support Team administers our multi-million pound grant programme on behalf of commissioners across the council, ensuring the council's funding is achieving value for money and contributing to our strategic priorities. The role of Monitoring Officer is integral to evaluating council support for the Voluntary Sector and ensure it successfully contributes towards council priorities.

Working as part of a small team, the role's key responsibilities include: • Supporting and monitoring voluntary and community groups in receipt of funding/grant aid agreements to obtain value for money; • Liaising with service areas and relevant agencies to maximise available resources for voluntary and community groups in Sandwell; • Drafting and finalising grant agreements between individual voluntary organisations and the Council; and • Supporting strategic voluntary organisations deliver agreed outputs/outcomes for the development of voluntary and community groups in Sandwell. Underpinned by a working knowledge of the voluntary and community sector, the successful candidate will have experience of: • Administering financial support for the voluntary and community sector • Monitoring and evaluation processes • Budget monitoring • Presenting reports • Working with minority ethnic communities and elected members.

This role is 37 hours per week, hybrid working- Council House, Oldbury and home. We require candidates who can start asap and the role will be for a period of 12 weeks with a view to extend until November 2022. Please see JD and PS attached for further information.

Please can the agencies send over a CV, 2x up to date references and a copy of Terms and Conditions. You will also need to include your agency on cost details to each submission. Stated rates must be inclusive of all known costs.

No DBS is required for this role.

Please note this advert is also out with our Master Vendor

You will receive further information regarding invoice terms if your candidate is appointed to this role. Invoices must be sent electronically on a weekly basis to templink_1@sandwell.gov.uk along with your workers authorised timesheet supplied by your agency. Payments are then released 14 days from the date of the invoice.

The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement opportunity, please...

Additional information:

The Quotation Document(s) will be made available to suppliers who Express Interest on the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Tendering Portal. To access the portal please click the following link https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc

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Closing date for submission of quotations is Friday 8th July 2022 16:00pm

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No