Grade: PO1
Salary: £40,182 – £42,060 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: Full-Time, 36 Hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 7th June 2026
Interview Date: Week commencing 15th June 2026
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing effective commissioned services across Children services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing and executing specific projects to attain our commissioning goals.
- Collaborating with colleagues and partners to ensure the services we commission are of high quality, cost-effective, and yield positive outcomes.
- Aiding in service enhancement and cost reduction by contributing to vital projects.
- Composing, formulating, and updating vital documents such as Service Specifications, Contracts, and Individual Placement Agreements, and ensuring proper filing.
- Monitoring and evaluating our contracts and processes to ensure smooth operations.
- Preparing detailed reports to assist senior managers in making informed decisions and managing resources effectively.
- Establishing strong partnerships with our associates to guarantee seamless collaboration in delivering the best services possible.
As a Commissioning Officer, you will report to the Senior Commissioning Officer within the Commissioning and Programmes team in Children’s Services. The team drives strategic thinking, collaborative working, and performance management across all commissioning activity. Operating with a “One Children’s Commissioning” approach, the team works closely with external partners to deliver high-quality, evidence-based services that provide best value.
We are committed to cultural change and continuous improvement, ensuring our commissioning plans align with corporate priorities while regularly reviewing provision to identify opportunities for innovation. Above all, the team is dedicated to achieving positive outcomes for children and families in Haringey, with all decisions and activities firmly rooted in needs-led, evidence-based practice
The ideal candidate will have:
- Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing specific projects with colleagues and partners to effectively deliver service commissioning objectives.
- Proven ability to play a key role within the children’s Commissioning team and ensure successful delivery of commissioning and project activities, including tracking quality, value for money, and outcomes.
- Experience in supporting the Senior Commissioning Officer in the development of commissioning arrangements, including data analysis, monitoring, and planning for commissioned services.
- Ability to contribute to key projects that provide efficiency savings and continuous service improvement, while also supporting the development and delivery of projects.
- Strong writing and drafting skills, with the ability to write, draft, and update Service Specifications, Contracts, and Individual Placement Agreements while ensuring proper storage and filing within the Council’s data systems.
- Proficiency in monitoring and evaluating contract management and processes.
- Excellent report writing skills, with the ability to produce detailed and articulate commissioning reports that enable senior managers to make strategic decisions and manage resources effectively.
- Ability to contribute to the development of relationships across statutory, independent, voluntary, and community partners, promoting participation, involvement, and co-production of service re-design and review.
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
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