Job Details:
Compliance Officer

Job Description

Job description

JOIN THE GROUNDWORK TEAM

We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:

• Community engagement
• Landscape design & build
• Training & coaching for employment
• Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
• Safe & sustainable business support

As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.

Based at Groundwork offices in Trafford Park or Ashton-Under-Lyne.

We aim to support a healthy work-life balance. As such we operate a flexi-time system and part time and flexible working options are available. We are happy to discuss preferred working arrangements with candidates within the parameters of the role requirements.

OVERVIEW OF THE POST

• To provide compliance and administration support for projects and contracts
• To lead the day to day management of the MI and database systems
• To establish and develop administration systems to support smooth running of projects and services to meet specific customer and funder requirements, maintaining a robust and auditable trail.

ROLE & MAIN PURPOSES OF THE POST

Delivery

• Leading on compliance and administration for contracts, in line with compliance guidance from funders
• Maintain and input information onto MI and database systems
• Audit and ensure compliance with paperwork timescales, targets and accuracy
• Liaise with project delivery staff to provide advice and guidance and ensure timely submission of data

Business & Service Development

• To be the primary point of contact for the MI and database systems, including liaising with funder’s support functions as required; generating reports and supporting other users to maximise effective use of system
• Produce new templates and documents as required by the team
• Supports project and internal service development, including proactively supporting introduction of new systems or processes for contracts
• Identifies service improvement opportunities and shares ideas with managers

Uses internal and external data relating to system compliance and administration, and shares learning within team to inform internal and external service development and practice

Financial & Resource Management

• Understands and manages resources for specific tasks and activities
• Responsible for budgets for identified elements of employment & enterprise compliance and administration services
• Looks for cost savings and internal service improvement opportunities and shares ideas with managers and team

People Management & Development

• Organising and delivering compliance training and tracking for staff team
• Line management of volunteers or trainees
• Shares specialist skills and knowledge with others
• Embeds culture and values through own behaviours and providing supportive challenge to others

Internal Management

• Supports the effective operation and improvement of core business functions through compliance
• Embeds policy and procedure within areas of responsibility
• Supports delivery of business improvement priority plans within team

Other

• Perform all other duties as assigned

To apply for this role, please visit https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/compliance-officer/

and send the forms to gmrecruitment.org.uk quoting Compliance Officer in the subject line

Pension scheme, flexible working, sick pay, maternity leave, paternity leave, long service additional annual leave, cycle to work scheme