DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? A REAL DIFFERENCE?

Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towards Delivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. We’re seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of ‘daring to do it differently’, as we continue to strive to do better.
In our Children, Education, & Families Directorate, we want every child to have the best possible education and with this goal in mind, we’ve set out to improve and transform our services.
Oxfordshire County Council is a financially stable local authority which is committed to investing in Children, Education, and Families, to ensure that we have the resources we need to make a real difference to the children, young people, and families we work with.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our Early Education Funding Team.
As an Early Education Funding Payments Officer, you will work with an established team and play an integral role in the administration and effective delivery of early education funding to private, voluntary and independent providers that offers vital early education to young children across Oxfordshire.

As part of this role, you will:

• Work in collaboration with the team to effectively distribute and audit early education funding in line with statutory requirements and the Council’s audit and financial procedures.
• Ensure the accurate, timely and effective administration and distribution of early education funding.
• Proactively liaise with other colleagues, teams and agencies to provide a consistent service and take a pro-active approach to develop new systems and processes to ensure the most efficient distribution of funding is given.
• Develop detailed knowledge of all aspects of early education funding so that detailed and complex queries from providers and parents can be responded to in a timely way.