Central Liaison Officer - Full-time

The Viking Academy Trust

Ref:KCC-F20-40-S
Posted:23/08/2021
Pay:Kent Range 8 or 9
Start Date:September 2021
App Close Date:02/09/2021 at 12:00
Interviews:To be confirmed

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CENTRAL LIAISON OFFICER

The Viking Academy Trust is looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and highly organised Central Liaison Officer (CLO). This is an exciting, brand-new role working to support and underpin the non-educational part of the Trust central leadership team.

The successful candidate will be directed under the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO) in supporting the thriving business function of the trust.

The successful candidate will be responsible for line managing the Trust Caretaker to ensure compliance with statutory obligations and ensuring that health and safety procedures are followed. The successful candidate will also act as the link on behalf of the trust for our larger scale procurement projects. In addition to this, the successful candidate will oversee some of our ancillary services such as our ICT, cleaning and catering contracts.

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic, fast moving team who wants the very best for Viking Academy Trust.

What you’ll do:

Ensure legal and operational compliance, ensuring the Trust Caretaker implements the statutory compliance and due diligence procedures.
Managing the administration of having contractors on site such as obtaining insurances, risk assessments and method statements.
Oversee IT in terms of procurement and licences
Project management
Working with the finance team to select and appoint external contractors.
Obtaining quotations, packaging these quotations and presenting them to the Finance Team in accordance with the trust Finance Policy.
Monitoring training records to ensure compliance i.e. working at height, warden training etc
Ensuring that the contracts register and statutory compliance records are updated regularly
Dealing with insurance renewals
Manage existing contracts ensuring best value to the Trust. Engaging in service monitoring visits with contractors.

What you’ll need:

IOSH / alternative Health and Safety qualification or willingness to embark on these qualifications.
Experience of office administration
Excellent communication skills
Experience working with suppliers, contract management and tendering
Excellent organisation and project management skills with a keen eye for detail
Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience of presenting to senior leadership
Proactive, motivated and driven
Strong computer skills, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
Full valid driving licence
A ‘can-do’ attitude
Motivates, enthuses, inspires and empowers team to deliver service excellence

Application deadline is Monday 23^rd August 2021 at 12 pm.

Start Date: September 2021 (subject to clearance)

Salary: Kent Range 8 / 9 (Salary negotiable dependant on experience)

Hours per week: 37 hours, all year round.

Information about the trust

The Viking Academy Trust is a primary only, Multi-Academy Trust consisting of three inspirational schools: Upton Junior School, Chilton Primary School and Ramsgate Arts Primary School.

Our One Childhood One Chance philosophy resonates throughout everything we do at the Viking Academy Trust.

At Viking, we make sure that our ultimate focus and core purpose remains excellent teaching and learning for every child. Our teaching is progressive and adaptive and we strive for the best outcomes for all. We invest time and training into our staff so that they can invest their skills and expertise into our children.

For children to thrive, they need to feel that they belong. Our people and our environments are warm and welcoming. Every member of our staff invests in building strong relationships with children and getting to know children well means we can focus on equity of opportunity.

This means that we can prioritise social and emotional learning along with the academic as we know that children need to learn how to be resilient, to have healthy and safe relationships and to face the world with problem solving skills.

We nurture children to become responsible citizens, ready to face the modern world and to make the most of their every potential both academically and socially. At Viking schools, we have high standards and expectations and we know how to support children to reach them.

Job Contact Information

Name:Lisa Blatchford, HR Director
Address:Upton Junior School,
Edge End Road,
Broadstairs,
Kent,
CT10 2AH
Telephone: 01843 861393
Email: hrd@vikingacademytrust.com

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