London Borough of Hackney
Commissioning and Contracts Officer
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Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity until 31 March 2029
Hackney is ambitious, pioneering, and proud. We are looking for dynamic and experienced individuals to join our Children’s Integrated Commissioning Service.
The Children’s Integrated Commissioning Service is the architect of a system that supports our children to thrive. We don’t just manage contracts; we design the entire network of services for children and families. We bring together health, education, social care and VCS partners to work as one, ensuring every child gets the right help, at the right time, in the right way.
We are looking for passionate, creative, and determined people to join our team and to lead wider strategic thinking across the Council and the NHS, aligning the developments within children’s and education services to wider corporate plans and cementing relationships with providers both within and beyond our community.
About The Role
We are recruiting one Children’s Commissioning & Contracts Officer to help us plan, buy, and manage the Early Years and Children and Family Hubs critical services that support our children and families.
In this role you will play a critical role in ensuring high-quality and effective service design and commissioning activity, bringing your strategy, commissioning and project management expertise, whilst engaging stakeholders to shape and design and review our services. You will work to clear governance frameworks, and work closely with programme leads and wider colleagues across the Children and Education Directorate to achieve our vision.
In This Role, You Will
- Analyse needs and shape the market
- Review and design services to be delivered by the Council or to be procured from external organisations
- Manage tenders and contracts
- Work with providers to drive quality and innovation
- Ensure every pound we spend makes a difference
Who are we looking for?
You might be an organisational powerhouse, a data whizz, a natural relationship builder, a strategic thinker, or a creative problem-solver. Whatever your background, you are driven by a relentless desire to make things better for children. You are curious, brave, and you believe in the power of collaboration.
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Why Hackney?
Our Systemic, Trauma-Informed and Anti-Racist (STAR) practice model informs everything we do. Following on from our Anti Racist Summit in October 2023 we remain committed to dismantling systemic racism, discrimination, injustice and making anti-racism a foundation of our practice. We provide wide-ranging and excellent training and development opportunities; we will help you to develop excellent practice, leading to career advancement at your own pace. We are an innovative borough where we collaborate to support change for the children and families we work for and for each other.
Ready to build the future with us?
If you’re ready to move beyond the ordinary and do work that truly matters, we want to hear from you.
Further Reading
- Children’s Integrated Commissioning Strategy 2025/26-2026/27
- Best Start in Life Local Plan.pdf
As a Council, our most outstanding asset is our staff, who are highly dedicated to serving our residents and committed to our goals as an organisation.
If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.
We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Therefore, we do not accept supporting statements or CV’s.
To proceed with your application, you will need to access the Jobs section of the Hackney website.
As part of the application process, you will need to complete a number of competency based questions. These questions allow you to demonstrate your suitability for the role and provide examples of your skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description.
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Application Details
- Closing date for applications: 06 September 2026 (22:59)
- Interviews will take place: W/c 21 September 2026
We withhold the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of applications.
We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud. In order to achieve this, we are seeking individuals who embody our “PROUD” values: Purpose and Respect, where we foster belonging through active inclusion, kindness, and open dialogue; Ownership, where we champion proactive collaboration and accountability for our shared success; and Unity and Diversity, where we work as one Council to break down silos and champion anti-racist behavior.
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.
The Council has a dedicated employment support service (Hackney Works), which offers Hackney residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you are thinking about applying for a job, please contact the Hackney Works team to find out what support is available: hackneyworks@hackney.gov.uk
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