Childcare & Early Years Capital Project Officer

Salary: £41,511

Childcare & Early Years Capital Project Officer

Mae'r ddogfen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg / This document is also available in Welsh.

Education and Inclusion Services Directorate are seeking applications for a highly motivated Childcare & Early Years Capital Project Officer to oversee the Childcare & Early Years Capital Grant programme, funded by Welsh Government. The successful applicant will be a key part of the 21st Century Schools Team based in the Valleys Innovation Centre, Abercynon, ensuring the successful delivery of childcare and early years capital projects, and the successful implementation and administration of the Childcare & Early Years Small Capital Grant Scheme. The post is for 37 hours per week.

Main responsibilities of the role include, developing and assisting in the production of funding bids and delivering childcare and early years capital projects. The role will also involve the co-ordination of the Childcare & Early Years Small Capital Grant scheme, which enables childcare providers to apply for funding to make small-scale capital improvements to their venues.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills and experience of writing funding bids and delivering capital projects to programme. Being the client representative on capital schemes, as well as being involved in all aspects of stakeholder and public consultation events, they will have excellent inter-personal skills and confidence in dealing with a variety of stakeholders across the public and private sectors.

The and person specification is attached. The post is temporary until 31 March 2026. However, the Childcare & Early Years Capital Programme is a three-year programme to 2028 and so funding this post beyond 2025 may be possible.

For an informal discussion or further information, please contact Denise Humphries, Senior 21st Century Schools Project Manager denise.humphries@rctcbc.gov.uk 07825 675667 or Lisa Howell, Head of School Organisation and WESP lisa.j.howell@rctcbc.gov.uk 07817 428635.

Protecting children and vulnerable adults is a core responsibility of all staff appointed to the Council.

In addition to this safeguarding responsibility, the successful applicant for this role will also be subject to an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

The Council values diversity in its workforce. We are committed to ensuring that no unlawful discrimination occurs in the recruitment and selection process on the grounds of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, transgender, including those with non-binary identities, religion or belief or pregnancy and maternity. We offer a number of staff networks for employees including the Allies Network, a Disability and Carers Network and Perthyn our LGBTQ+ Network.

An application submitted for this post in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

As part of the Council's longer term objectives in relation to the Welsh language and its Workforce Planning Strategy, it is committed to a guaranteed interview scheme for Welsh-speakers of Level 3 and above. If you meet the essential criteria as identified in the person specification for the job and are a Welsh-speaker of Level 3 and above, you will be invited to interview if you choose to participate in the scheme.

In view of the large number of Application Forms which are currently being submitted individual applications are not acknowledged. Consequently if you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application is unsuccessful on this occasion. In which case you are thanked for the interest you have shown in applying for a position within the Council.

In support of the Council's voluntary pledge to support the Armed Forces, the recruiter must always be prepared to ensure that applicants who have identified themselves as members of the Armed Forces including Service Leavers, Veterans or Reservists and who meet the essential criteria of the person specification, are offered an interview.