Skills and Experience
* Experienced in stakeholder and relationship management with excellent relationship building skills.
* Preparing agendas, papers, and progressing actions for contract management and governance meetings at a senior level.
* Able to hold different parties accountable through action tracking and programme management.
* Able to take forward a range of task and finish projects and programmes of work from inception to delivery and completion.
* Experienced in working in a fast-paced environment.
* Excellent emotional intelligence: Being able to work and talk confidently. Being able to read the room and work accordingly.
* Ideally needs to have a breath of experience within Children's Services.
* Strong Children's Services commissioning experience and good awareness of the commissioning cycle.
* Strong experience with contract management.
* Working on behalf of North and West Northamptonshire Councils to manage commissioning arrangements with Northamptonshire Childrens Trust who deliver early help and social care services to children, young people and thoer families in Northamptonshire.
* Contract management of a range of service delivery and support services contracts to ensure compliance with contractual arrangemets and consistent performance of the delivery of services to children and young people.
* Manage relationships with key stakeholders

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.