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Please note this vacancy is only available to Birmingham City Council employees.

Programme Senior Officer (Adults)

Permanent

Grade D - £45,091 – £51,356

Working 36.5 hours per week

This role sits within the Adults Team in Public Health and reports to the Service Lead for Adults.

The postholder will lead on commissioning and programme delivery relating to Birmingham’s Smoke Free Grant, ensuring the city maximises its funding to improve quit outcomes, strengthen local stop-smoking pathways, and contribute to national ambitions for a Smokefree Generation.

This is a key strategic role focused on expanding Birmingham’s capacity to support residents to quit smoking, tackling health inequalities, and ensuring that commissioned services and programmes effectively reach communities most affected by tobacco harm.

The postholder will drive Birmingham’s Smokefree agenda by leading the design, commissioning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of smoke-free programmes, including the development of innovative approaches to prevention, cessation, and wider system collaboration.

The role involves partnership working across the NHS, Primary Care, Integrated Care System, community and voluntary sector, and wider Council services to embed consistent, evidence-based smoking cessation pathways and ensure the Smoke Free Grant is fully utilised and delivered in line with national guidance.

The postholder will play a central role in the city’s progress towards a Smokefree Generation by overseeing commissioning arrangements, supporting policy development, improving workforce capability, and coordinating local delivery of national and regional initiatives.

The postholder will be responsible for supervising staff as required and supporting the operational delivery of projects linked to the Smoke Free Grant.

This role will operate within the Council’s Matrix Management arrangements and requires a flexible, collaborative approach.

Role Responsibilities

The postholder will apply rigorous, practical, and evidence-based approaches to ensure commissioned activity and programmes have measurable impact on adult health and wellbeing. Responsibilities include:

• Lead on the commissioning, development, and implementation of smoke-free programmes funded by the Smoke Free Grant.
• Oversee Birmingham’s contribution to the national Smokefree Generation agenda, ensuring alignment with relevant guidance and local priorities.
• Ensure commissioned services and programmes are designed to reduce smoking-related inequalities and increase quit rates in groups experiencing greatest harm.
• Manage and monitor the performance of commissioned providers, including reporting on KPIs, grant utilisation, and programme outcomes.
• Coordinate the development of improved pathways into smoking cessation support and tobacco dependence treatment.
• Lead strategic partnerships across the NHS, ICS, Council directorates, community organisations, and system partners to embed smoke-free approaches and strengthen local capacity.
• Provide expertise and guidance on smoke-free policy, commissioning models, evidence-based practice, and approaches to addressing inequalities.
• Prepare strategic reports, business cases, and programme updates for internal governance, senior leadership, and external partners.
• Support the development and implementation of relevant policies linked to smoking, cessation, inequalities, and behaviour change.
• Ensure the Smoke Free Grant delivery meets all governance, reporting, and assurance requirements.
• Support innovation, pilot projects, and proofs of concept aimed at improving quit outcomes and expanding reach into communities.
• Deliver responsibilities relating to data sharing agreements, information governance, and FOI/SAR requests.
• Promote collaboration and shared learning across the Council, partners, and commissioned services.
• Support workforce development including training, guidance, and capacity-building initiatives.
• Uphold project management methodologies to ensure programmes are effectively delivered and evaluated.

Professional Development and Behaviours

• Maintain ongoing professional development in line with the evolving scope and demands of the role.
• Demonstrate and promote Council values and behaviours, modelling professionalism and integrity.
• Share best practice, contribute to team learning, and support colleagues’ development.
• Actively participate in internal and external training relevant to the role.
• Build and maintain constructive working relationships across Public Health, the wider Council, and external partners.

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact the Resourcing Team <Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk>

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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We are a disability confident employer and we encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. We also welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) may need to apply for a visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and may require a Certificate of Sponsorship from Birmingham City Council for a skilled worker visa (if the job is eligible).