Commissioning Officer

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Children’s Commissioning Officer, you will help plan, design and procure services that meet the needs of children, young people and their families. Through effective partnership working and commissioning practices, you will contribute to the delivery and continuous improvement of education, health, care and support services across South Gloucestershire.

As part of our Early Help and Preventative Services team, you will lead on the commissioning and contract management of a range of family support services, including parenting programmes, home-visiting services and groups for parents with young children through Home-Start, support for fathers through Dad Matters, and interventions for children affected by parental offending.

What You Will Be Doing

• Joining the Children's Commissioning team, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of education, care and support services for children.
• Working in co-production to plan, design and procure services, you will help improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.
• Using your expertise, you will monitor and evaluate commissioned services to ensure they deliver the intended outcomes and provide value for those they support.
• Working closely with a wide range of partners, you will support the delivery of strategic priorities and help drive improvements in service quality and effectiveness.

What We Need From You

• It is essential you have knowledge and experience of working within an organisation that commissions or provides education, social care or health services.
• You will demonstrate strong analytical and creative thinking skills, using data, insight and innovative approaches to identify solutions and secure the best outcomes for children and young people.
• We are looking for someone who is highly organised, with a proven ability to meet service standards and deadlines, manage competing priorities and adapt to changing demands.
• Drawing on your interpersonal and communication skills, you will build and maintain positive and productive relationships with a diverse range of partners and stakeholders.
• You will have experience of managing a varied workload, using effective planning and time management skills to deliver high-quality outcomes within agreed timescales.

What You Need To Know

• This is part-time role, working 18.5 hours per week.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.

Interviews are likely to held on 11th November 2026.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
• We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Commissioning Officer (Early Help) - Job Description