Assistant Contract Monitoring Officer

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Assistant Contract Monitoring Officer
• Job Location:                      Shire Hall 
• Salary:                               £30,024 - £32,597 per annum, pro rata 
• Hours per Week:                 30
• Contract Type:                    Permanent 
• Closing Date:                      16/01/2026 
• Job Requisition Number:      12872 
• This post is not open to job share

About the Role

Delivery contract management are looking for a monitoring officer to join our team.  We are a small team of five, responsible for procuring and managing several contracts for our corporate estate and schools. We are looking for someone who can take on the monitoring of these various contracts and assist our contract lead officers when required.  We need you to be out and about, daily and you must have your own car available.  You’ll be monitoring the school meals service, cleaning standards and checking grounds maintenance.  There will be a mileage allowance.

About You 

You will need to have excellent attention to detail, be well organised and self-motivated to ensure our contract service levels are maintained. We need you to have great communication skills to achieve the best outcomes when visiting sites and monitoring standards.  Great ICT skills are essential as we use a wide variety of packages including Microsoft 365 and our own database for monitoring.

Someone friendly, able to challenge and resolve issues and maintain a good relationship with our clients and contractors.  You must be focused and able to work alone.  Whilst there will be specific training available for the role, we expect you to have some experience in either grounds, cleaning or catering and ideally contract monitoring.

About Us   

You will be based from home but will be required to attend sites daily and meetings when necessary.

The job is full time, and working hours are between 9.30am and 3.30pm.  There is some flexibility, but you will be required to monitor a kitchen each day over the lunchtime period.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

Flexible and agile working opportunities

25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro-rata)

An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata)

Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family

Career development and qualification opportunities

Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.

An in-house Occupational Health service

Employee discount scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)

Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.

Mileage Allowance

How to apply 

If you feel you’d like to join the team then please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the “Apply Now” Button.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Cathy King via email at cathy.king@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

Short-listed candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview.  Interviews will be held on 28th January 2026.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Assistant Contract Monitoring - Job Profile

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.  

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.