Job Description

Senior Contracts Officer | 10439 | permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | Up to £48,227 per annum (2026/27 Pay Award Pending) | Grade K | Norwich – hybrid working

Senior Contracts Officer, Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH), Primary Care & Healthy Lifestyles

(Advanced Performance & Assurance Officer)

Our Public Health service is dedicated to achieving Norfolk County Council’s vision for Norfolk to be the place where everyone can start life well, live well, and age well; where no one is left behind. Our transformation agenda is a key County Council priority focused on prevention, reducing health inequalities and influencing healthy public policy.

As the Senior Contracts Officer, you will work alongside the Public Health Principal Performance & Assurance and commissioner colleagues, to drive forward high quality, evidence led and good practice focused services that achieve beneficial outcomes whilst meeting legislative and statutory requirements. In doing so, you’ll help to ensure provisions that offer value for money for the population of Norfolk.

You will have good knowledge of commissioning as a function, stakeholder engagement as well as material experience of contract management and performance management of services. You will need to evidence your commercial awareness and/or expertise in managing projects.

You’ll be able to evidence your ability to manage relationships and negotiate with current and potential providers to ensure the delivery of agreed outcomes and value for money. You will come to us with excellent communication skills developed through partnership working with a range of stakeholders.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘Norfolk Rewards’our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Redeployment closing date: 17 May 2026

All other applicants closing date: 25 May 2026

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.
We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.