Project Officer Contract Full Time

Project Officer needed in based in Southwark and the salary is £20.30ph PAYE  

This is a full time temporary role. 

Employer Reference: 5188002

This role will involve:

• Contribute to the projects relating to the development and implementation of housing solutions, homelessness prevention, trailblazer initiatives, welfare reform, and temporary accommodation strategies.
• Prepare complex reports and carry out creative and complex work on a number of diverse subjects, involving research and statistical analysis, often where recognised general principles are not completely adequate to determine procedure or decision of cases.
• Analyse the cost of nightly accommodation rates for households in different forms of temporary accommodation and suggest move on arrangements for the most expensive cases.
• Evaluate the most effective package of incentives and accommodation charges to help the Housing Solutions services stay within budget.
• Line management responsibility for four Casework Support Officers, ensuring they meet their targets.
• Operate new technology, including any packages, programmes or systems on the Unit’s personal computers and the Department’s network, whilst, where appropriate, carrying out any of the above duties.

Ideally candidates will have:

• Experience of working on the Northgate Housing System or similar housing database.
• Housing and homelessness and the problems facing local government
• Awareness of the role of service development, data quality and performance management
• Excellent IT skills to produce, collate and disseminate detailed technical information in a format easily understood by service users and staff
• Ability to use computer systems including word processing, spreadsheets and databases for correspondence and reports
• Ability to gather, analyse and interpret complex information and exercise judgement to make recommendations for improvement

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to cvs@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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