Strategic Business Support Officer

Hackney, England, United Kingdom

1/6/2025

Do you want to play a key support role close to the heart of strategy and decision-making? The Policy and Strategic Delivery lead on policy and strategy, supporting the strategic delivery of cross-cutting corporate programmes and advising on change and transformation within the council and the wider community.

We help create the right environment for partnership working, lead on voluntary sector strategy and support, and create the frameworks and tools to ensure that equality is embedded into service design and delivery. The Service leads in tackling some of the toughest issues facing the borough, including poverty reduction, tackling key inequalities and shaping an inclusive economy.

In this role, you will provide professional and proactive support to the team’s work on poverty reduction. In particular, you will support the Trusted Referal Partners programme which enables 25 services across the Council and Health Service to make crisis payments to residents facing financial hardship.

In addition, you will play a key role in producing the fortnightly Poverty Reduction newsletter, circulated to over 1,000 frontline practitioners and in organising the fortnightly online Tools for Frontline staff meetings (and occasional in-person events), bringing together frontline staff working to reduce poverty to share information and support each other.

We will provide training to enable you to use the systems to carry out these tasks.

You will need to be collaborative, curious, highly organised and take responsibility for managing your own time and priorities.

Strong administration skills and attention to detail are essential, but you will also need to be flexible, adaptable, and able to work on several different areas of work at any one time, with different people and working with several managers.

Enjoying variety, having an appetite for continuous improvement, and an interest in learning is therefore very important.

Please contact Rachel via email at rachel.salmon@hackney.gov.uk (Strategic Delivery Manager) for an informal conversation about this role.

Hackney is one of the UK’s highest-performing local authorities, serving one of London’s best places to live and work. We have achieved a huge amount: our services, our schools, our public spaces are all amongst the very best. We have changed the reputation, not just of the Council, but of Hackney itself. Bringing jobs and investment into the borough, securing the legacy from the 2012 Games, and making this a place of which we can all be proud.

If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.

The recruitment process is anonymous. Therefore, we do not accept supporting statements or CVs.

When applying, there will be several questions relating to the post on the application form. It is essential that you complete the application questions, responding to each using examples of your skills, knowledge and experience.

We will not accept applications where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been used to assist with completing the competency questions or any part of the application form.

This application process replaces a supporting statement.

Closing date for applications: 19 January 2025 (22:59 pm)

Interviews: to be confirmed

We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.

The Council has a dedicated employment support service (Hackney Works), which offers Hackney residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you are thinking about applying for a job, please contact the Hackney Works team to find out what support is available: hackneyworks@hackney.gov.uk