The Opportunity
Salary: £32,597 to £35,412 per annum (£26,430 to £28,712 per annum pro rata)
Working Pattern: 30 hour per week Part time final working arrangement to be agree with hiring manager.
Location County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working
Interview date: W/C 31st August 2026
As a Business Delivery Officer, you will support the Principal Business Planning and Performance Lead by providing high-quality performance analysis and insights.
Your work will enable the service to proactively identify emerging issues, enhance decision-making, and clearly communicate performance to senior stakeholders across HTP and partner organisations.
You will also contribute to current and future business planning, to ensure the directorate is well prepared for evolving operational and strategic demands.
Your responsibilities will include collating, analysing, and reporting on corporate, directorate, and service metrics, as well as contract performance across various technical areas.
You will also work closely with senior stakeholders, providing insightful commentary alongside KPIs and Management Information (MI) to facilitate well-informed decision-making.
This varied role merges operational expertise, analytical precision, and strategic planning. You will embed policies, support strategic growth, and ensure organisational needs are met within budget. Occasional visits to depots will build supplier relationships and enhance your understanding of frontline operations.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in this role you will bring:
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, build credible relationships, and communicate information clearly.
- Strong partnership skills, with the ability to establish and manage effective links both within and outside the organisation, coordinating partners to achieve shared objectives.
- Experience in interpreting complex information to produce high-quality reports; capable of organisation, planning, and meeting deadlines for reports, plans, and detailed documents.
- Experience in developing robust, viable strategies and reports that meet legislative and organisational requirements, including collaborating with colleagues and partners to agree on policy details and obtain necessary approvals.
- The ability to anticipate issues, adapt to change, and proactively plan solutions, delivering pragmatic and effective problem-solving.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
- an excellent local government pension scheme
- generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
Further information
The reference number for this role is EIE01575.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Bethan Watts [email protected].
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
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