Contracts and Commissioning Officer

Contract Type : Permanent

Salary : Grade H. Scale 29 - £39,862 to Scale 31 - £41,771

Hours Per Week : 36hours

Base Location : Tameside Housing Advice, Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 7RL

Assessment Date : To be arranged

The Role

This newly created role will work closely with the Housing Advice Team to lead on the effective management, renewal, and negotiation of contracts that support the delivery of high quality accommodation and housing related support services across Tameside.

You will take responsibility for ensuring all contracts remain compliant, value for money, and aligned to service needs. While the post is primarily office based, you will work closely with local providers, partners, and communities to maintain strong working relationships that underpin the delivery of Tameside's Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy.

About You

You will be a confident, knowledgeable professional with the ability to negotiate and manage high value, complex contracts covering both technical requirements and pricing structures.

Experience within a local authority or housing / support services environment, particularly in contract management or procurement, is highly desirable.

You will be an effective communicator with a proven ability to build and maintain strong partnerships that support contract delivery and shared outcomes.

You will be comfortable working independently, navigating procurement rules, contract cycles, and renewal processes with accuracy and timeliness.

Strong IT skills are essential to support robust contract monitoring, performance tracking, and document management.

You will bring confident negotiation skills and an understanding of current housing market pressures, along with knowledge of the challenges facing local authorities.

The ability to produce high quality reports and present complex contractual information to a range of audiences is vital, as is an understanding of local authority financial and procurement processes.

About Us

Come shape the future of Tameside with us!

Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.

"Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I've been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that's making a real difference to our borough.

"Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tameside-covering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it's keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.

''We've already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it's not just about developments- day to day it's about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and asssets for the future.

To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that's driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we'd love to have you on board.

Come and be part of something great. Let's build the future of Tameside together!''

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme.

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 5016 or kate.kennedy2@tameside.gov.uk