Total 7 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Buckie, Moray, ab56 5as

Job Description

To provide a service that increases the prospects and development of young people at risk of moving on to a negative destination.

Working with young people with challenging behaviours and at risk of exclusion, you will deliver a programme within the school as an alternative to or to prevent exclusion by engaging with pupils individually and in groups. Group work will also take place with pupils identified as requiring additional support but who have not been excluded from school. You will work with school staff to improve the chances of disengaged young people achieving a postive destination.

You will introduce pupils to a range of techniques and coping strategies to enable them to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner and identify the best ways for them to deal with conflict situations. You will also deliver activities addressing issues affecting young people, dealing with any personal, social and educational barriers. You will be part of the school’s wider support team and work in close partnership with pastoral and mainstream teaching staff. You are required to be a motivated self starter who will operate the programme on your own, supported by school staff.

Responsibilities

Actively promote effective group working, problem solving, decision making and develop productive working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and partner organisations.

Contribute to the development of local initiatives and continuous improvement. Be an active participant in school and other multi-agency meetings. Be open to change and encourage innovation. Record information and communicate effectively.

Research, prepare and effectively report information. Use appropriate systems for communicating, storing and retrieving information.

The Individual

• To have worked with vulnerable young people
• To have delivered to groups of individuals
• Experience of working within a young persons' environment
• Can demonstrate examples of building relationships with young people to achieve a positive outcome
• Evidence of examples of partnership working
• Educated to HNC Education & Childcare or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Effective communication skills, oral and written
• Person centred
• Ability to facilitate and co-ordinate activities
• Objective and non-judgemental
• Adaptable to working conditions and needs of young people
• Professional at all times
• Outline clear boundaries
• Consistent, fair and assertive
• Can work on own initiative with minimal supervision
• Confident to deliver group work
• Effective organisational & time management skills
• Collation and provision of management information
• Feedback to young people, professionals and external partners regularly and accurately
• Self-confident and self-motivated
• Ability to work as a member of a team contributing to service development
• Knowledge of: Child Protection Policies / Children’s Services (Local and National) / Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) / Curriculum For Excellence
• Understanding of issues affecting young people and how to engage positively with them
• Willing to travel
• You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the service. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car/van.
• Willing to learn new skills
• Passionate and motivated to work with young people
• To be able to develop and create interactive and innovative service content
• To be able to engage positively with young people
• The ability to diffuse potentially difficult situations
• Appreciation, acceptance of and a commitment to the importance of confidentiality in line with policies and procedures
• Accept direction/delegation
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service which may include occasional unsociable hours of work
• The capacity to handle stressful situations
• Flexible in approach

Temporary appointment until 27 June 2025

Closing Date: 22 November 2024
Starting Salary: £30,405.05(pro rata)
£16.13 per hour
15 hours per week (term time only)

For further information contact: St Peter's RC Primary School, telephone 01542 831339, email admin.stpetersp@moray-edunet.gov.uk

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Job Description

To assist the Principal Planning Officers (Development Management) by supervising the Systems Technical Assistant(s)/Planning Assistant(s)/Planning Officer(s), including the signing of work. Making decisions and providing professional advice on Planning Applications and other Development Management matters in accordance with agreed objectives.

Responsibilities

To assist with the day to day supervision of Systems Technical Assistant(s)/Planning Assistant(s)/Planning Officer(s) engaged in Development Management and to provide advice on workload and signing of work

To assist the Principal Planning Officers with Enforcement related casework as and when the need arises

Determining Planning Applications and other related consents

Determining whether planning permission is required. This may include attendance at the Planning and Regulatory Services Committee.

Responding to preliminary enquiries about the likelihood of planning consent for proposals.

Discharging planning conditions, and assist the Condition Compliance Officer.

Preparing Planning Appeal submissions on behalf of the Council

Carrying out enforcement duties as required to assist Enforcement Officer

Contributing to the effectiveness of the service

The Individual

Significant Development Management experience including processing and determining major Planning Applications

Degree/Diploma in Planning or related subject

MRTPI

High level of diplomacy and ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of customers

High level of personal initiative and ability to meet performance deadlines and undertake a caseload with the minimum of supervision

Excellent written skills

Effective communication, presentation and negotiating skills

Effective analytical and evaluative abilities and clear thinking

Experience of Microsoft Office including software packages such as Excel and Word Strong customer care skills and focus

Self-confidence and Self motivated

Ability to interpret Planning Legislation and Planning Policies and apply them to a specific case.

Able to multi task A commitment to deliver quality services to agreed standards Research capabilities

You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car/van

Ability to form productive and enabling working relationships Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines Ability to deal sensitively and tactfully with people who may not agree with decisions made Willing to accept direction/ delegation

Appreciation, acceptance and commitment to the importance of confidentiality

Ability to work in the office, or remotely from home where job is hybrid in nature.

Ability to make site visits when required including accessing restricted spaces, locations in rural, rough ground.

Ability to work in an open plan office.

Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs and demands of the service

Ability to work in different offices dependent on service requirements

Closing Date: 13 September 2024

Starting Salary: £47,068.45

£24.97 per hour

36.25 hours per week

Interviews to be held - TBC

For further information contact: Neal Macpherson, neal.macpherson@moray.gov.uk

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JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead

SALARY: £78,849 - £87,610

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the office

About this opportunity

The Purpose of the Business Agility Lead (BAL) is to work in partnership with Labs. You'll be placed in one of our teams to drive effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace. The Business Agility Lead (BAL) is jointly responsible for the performance of the Lab including data quality, optimised flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices. You'll do this by transitioning to a data led approach to increase speed to market through related measures, introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track. This will be achieved by working hand in hand with Lab Leaders who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst providing coaching and transferring capabilities so that Teams are ultimately able to do this for themselves in time.

In this role, you'll support colleagues within your lab and platform to implement and refine agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge. You'll have an understanding of different agile approaches and use judgement to decide when and where to apply them.

You'll be familiar with Agile Methodology and Tooling, helping to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.

You'll be a keen problem solver, understanding the challenge, and creating possible solutions using a variety of methods through your experience, data, creativity and knowledge of the customer, business and industry. You'll support and coach teams with various technique, including brainstorming, process flows and value hypothesis setting.

We have a spectrum of agile maturity across our teams and labs, from those trying it for the first time, through to those with established practices and maturity, and we're looking for motivated and experienced Agile enthusiasts to join our team of committed Business Agility Leads.

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications)

• Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and Evidenced based decision making

• Experience in coaching and influencing Lab leadership in Agile Ways of Working

• Experience of using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence

• Ability to drive data quality and the accurate use of JIRA and JIRA Align

• Ability to use data and insights to problem solve and support Lab performance and productivity to drive Lab cadence

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

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Job Description

To provide efficient and effective clerical support for the Children & Families Social Work service.

Requirements

Provide clerical support for the Children & Families Social Work service.

Undertake tasks and processes to support the work of the Children & Families and Social Work service.

Provide clerical support to the Children & Families Social Work Team.

Participate in the Council's employee review and development programme.

The Individual

Experience

• Experience in clerical work including figure work, data entry, word processing, record keeping and filing
• Experience of working in a busy office environment using relevant technology and equipment e.g. photocopier, email, Intra/Internet
• Previous experience in Local Government and/or a Social Work team and/or an educational establishment or equivalent setting
• Experience of working within an environment that provides services to children

Education & qualifications *

• 4 SQA National 5 grades or equivalent at level 3 or above including English and Maths/Arithmetic *
• Recognised qualification for word processing, e.g. ECDL or equivalent *
• Recognised qualification for spreadsheets, e.g. ECDL or equivalent *
• Knowledge of shorthand

Skills/abilities (general)

• High level of accuracy in work
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Ability to use initiative in day to day tasks
• Ability to participate as a team member
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to deliver a high level of customer care
• Effective organisational and time management skills
• Self confident and self motivated

Skills/abilities (specific to post)

• Appreciation and acceptance of, and commitment to the importance of confidentiality
• Experience of operating software applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to demonstrate good literacy and numeracy skills
• Ability to identify and suggest improvements
• Flexible and adaptable
• You may need to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car*
• Knowledge of Council policy and procedures
• Knowledge of CareFirst
• Knowledge of social work services

Inter-personal and social skills

• Understanding of and ability to demonstrate key inter-personal skills on the telephone, by email and face to face
• Willingness to accept direction/delegation
• Ability to develop effective working relationships
• Ability to work in an open plan/shared office
• Flexibility to meet the needs and demands of the service
• Ability to work in different offices depending on the needs of the service
• Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting deadlines
• Capacity to deal with some emotionally difficult and sensitive situations

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Location: Buckie / Keith

Closing Date: 26 July 2024

Starting Salary £23,732.15

£12.59 per hour

17.5 hours per week

For further details please contact Sheryl Hay 01542 837236

Previous applicants need not apply.

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Job title: Business Support, Agility & Ways of Working

Salary: From £86,964

Location(s): London

Hours: Full time

Working pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Business Support Manager within the Optimisation & Integration team in Everyday Banking to focus on embedding Agile across the full EDB Business area, engaging colleagues in and designing our ways of working/operating model.

Everyday Banking is a key business area for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank's customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. We're responsible for the end-to-end journey for personal accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels. Everyday banking includes two platforms, Everyday Banking which focuses on the above, and the Core Banking System and Next Gen Core who supports the run and change needed to operate all core banking products for the LBG brands, products.

This role involves designing and driving agility across entire Everyday Banking business area. Including coaching cross-functional product teams in Agile principles and driving transformative change, fostering alignment between Product and Platform teams through collaboration, and working at an EDB level to implement and embed strong governance and behaviours.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Coaching and mentoring background
• Excellent stakeholder leadership skills - collaboratively working with the Senior Leadership Team and coaching colleagues from different areas to understand and provide value for our colleagues.
• A passion for problem solving & analysis - investigating and analysing our learning products to recommend and support solutions to the Product Teams.
• Well defined planning and organising skills as things may change and you'll need to adapt to a flexible agenda whilst prioritising what matters and simplifying complex ideas to gain understanding and commitment.
• Experience at communicating sophisticated messaging to senior audiences - especially visually and through 'telling the story ' in a compelling way.
• An inquisitive nature alongside being flexible, diligent, and adaptable to working in a changing environment. We also want you to be a creative thinker - inspire with energy and passion, with a focus on collaboration.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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JOB TITLE: Business Intelligence & Analytics Senior Manager

LOCATION(S): London, Bristol or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity!

Everyday Banking is the at the heart of our growth strategy with our Current Account and Overdrafts, Savings and Payments products supporting our mission to provide the best products for our UK customers and to grow relationships of the bank.

Our Savings business comprises of a c. £200bn Savings book generating significant income across our iconic Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands, and innovative challenger propositions under our MBNA brand. We have a vacancy in our Savings team for a Senior Manager to lead the Business Intelligence & Analytics team within the Commercial Performance & Pricing area. The role reports into the Head of Savings Commercial Performance & Pricing, with the accountability to:

• Design and implement advanced data insights solutions to solve complex problems for a variety of audiences.
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand their needs, converting these into technical requirements, and then creating, developing and delivering solutions to provide them with actionable insight whilst collaborating with cross functional teams including data engineers, analysts and data scientists.
• Utilise your experience in delivering data insight solutions to manage a delivery team of data analytics colleagues, supporting their careers.
• Telling effective stories with data and conveying technical concepts to team members.
• Influencing stakeholder transformation and change with data analytics capabilities and strategy.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What we're looking for

We'll be looking for these skills and experiences. But we know careers, like life, don't always go in a straight line. So, if you don't have some of these but think you've got what it takes, get in touch. We're hiring for attitude, experience, and expertise in equal measure.

• Data Manipulation - You'll build commercial data capability to support improved insight, planning and commercial performance. You'll develop analytical modelling capability to provide deep insight and the use of machine learning and AI techniques to advance our understanding of data and the customer.
• Business Intelligence & Visualisation - You'll establish innovative BI and data visualisation solutions for the Group, and act as an expert identifying emerging trends, tools and techniques to enable next generation communication of data/information.
• Data Analysis - You'll apply deep data insights to commercial performance.
• Data Management & Governance Utilise use your experience to carry out advanced activities for data management, including the reference and inclusion of internationally accepted data governance standards, regulatory requirements and benchmarks. You'll identify risk exposure and employ appropriate assurance measures to avoid occurrence.
• Business Reporting Tool - You'll bring knowledge, expertise and use of data science and applicable tools such as Tableau, Power BI, GDW etc. to inform our wider commercial decisions.
• People Leadership - Inspiring, empowering and inclusive to lead your teams through change.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

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Job Description

To assist and support the work of the Strategic Planning and Development section, particularly in carrying out site survey work, analysiying data and reporting on parks, open spaces, play areas and town centres. The postholders will also assist with local development plan engagement events and provide support to colleagues and service contacts on aspects of the projects.

Responsibilities

To assist colleagues to analyse and interpret data from the Open Space Audit and assist with drafting an Open Space Strategy

Play Sufficiency Assessment- to assist colleagues to engage with communities, schools and other key stakeholders on play sufficiency. To apply an agreed methodology and co-ordinate survey of play areas both formal and informal.

Town Centre health checks- to carry out audits of town centres, identify ground floor uses, ground floor and upper floor vacancy and complete town centre healthchecks and reports.

Local Development Plan engagement events- support planning officers to host stakeholder

To analyse and collate responses to the Local Development Plan Call for Ideas/Sites

The Individual

Previous work experience in a team environment and experience of self managing workload.

Proven experience working on projects.

Proven experience using Word/Excel/email.

Educated or studying at HND/ degree level.

Appreciation, acceptance of and a commitment to the importance of confidentiality.

Ability to use Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Access.

Proven ability to problem solve and self manage workload.

Ability to communicate successfully with members of the public.

Good organiser.

Report writing and analysis of data.

Willingness to learn new skills and extend knowledge.

Demonstrate critical analysis skills.

Ability to travel efficiently and effectively between various locations within Moray. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car/van.

Strong communication skills with ability to engage with colleagues, partners and the public to build productive relationships with key stakeholders.

Ability to work unsupervised.

Willingness to accept direction/delegation.

Self confidence.

Manual and physical dexterity for working outdoors.

Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs and demands of the service.

Closing Date: 31 May 2024

Starting Salary: £32,176.95

£17.07 per hour

36.25 hours per week

Interviews to be held - TBC

For further information contact: Gary Templeton, gary.templeton@moray.gov.uk

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