Contract Monitoring Officer

Newcastle City Council is seeking to recruit a dynamic and motivated Contract Monitoring Officer to join our Network Management and Construction division. This role will play a key part in monitoring a range of contracts, ensuring their effective management and delivery whilst maintaining compliance with contractual, regulatory, and statutory requirements across the Transport Service. The post has a particular focus on traffic signals and highways-related contracts. As a Contract Monitoring Officer, you will work collaboratively with seven local authorities, including Newcastle City Council, to oversee the performance and delivery of traffic signals and highways contracts. You will be responsible for coordinating with stakeholders, monitoring contractor performance, reporting on progress, and managing contracts for the provision of supplies, materials, and services. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the effective management and maintenance of the region's transport infrastructure, ensuring high-quality service delivery and value for money for residents and road users.

If you have a proven track record in contract management, strong analytical skills, and a passion for improving regional infrastructure, we want to hear from you!

Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. Its' an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region. Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence. From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we're all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving. Our values Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values

• Proud
• Fair
• Ambitious
Why work for us? We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best. Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City's vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.


• If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn't enough you will also have a generous annual leave allowance.
• The option to buy additional annual leave.
• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
• Ability to join a trade union.
• Access to a staff travel scheme.
• Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
• A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
• Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK's highstreet and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment.