Job Introduction
The Education Commissioning Team are seeking an enthusiastic and organised person to take on the role of Commissioning Support Officer.
You will join a friendly, hardworking and committed team with a passion to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people.
The role will provide support to the whole team, across a range of commissioning activities, covering education, special educational needs and disabilities, inclusion and with a particular focus on alternative provision, supporting the Alternative Provision Framework business processes for children and young people unable to access a school place and overseeing the AV1 Robots. If you are able to use your initiative, have good organisational and planning skills, good ability with Word and Excel, enjoy working with a range of different practitioners and most importantly want to help improve outcomes for children and young people we want you to hear from you.
This is a hybrid working role.
Main Responsibility
The role will involve:
- Providing administrative support to the Alternative Provision Framework business processes
- Overseeing the allocation of AV1 Robots, providing advice and monitoring usage
- Providing business support to the Education Commissioning team which will include a range of administrative tasks, data analysis, production of high-quality documents, presentations and spreadsheets
- Recording and monitoring attendance data for children and young people attending Alternative Provision
- Arranging meetings and note taking at meetings
- Liaising with a range of different practitioners
- Recording and monitoring data on information management systems
- Arranging meetings and note taking.
The Ideal Candidate
The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:
- GCSE English or equivalent
- NVQ III in Business Administration and/or previous experience in business administration.
- Excellent administrative skills and experience of using information management systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- ICT skills including a working knowledge of Excel
- Able to use your initiative and manage your own workload
- Good organisational skills, ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- The ability to work well independently and as part of a team.
Interviews will be commencing from 30 November and 7 December 2026
If you'd like to discuss the role further, please contact on carolyn.knight@staffordshire.gov.uk
Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes.
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
