Project Officer- Risk, Resilience and Safety

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 5 - Hybrid

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

Angus Council is continuing to improve how we manage health and safety, with a strong focus on proportionate, person-centred risk management across our services. The Health and Safety team sits within People and Organisational Development (POD).

We are seeking a Project Officer to lead and coordinate a key programme of work within the Education and Lifelong Learning Directorate, focused on strengthening risk assessment arrangements and ensuring alignment with service risk profiles.

This is a time-limited project role, with a clear focus on delivering structured outputs and establishing sustainable arrangements that will endure beyond the life of the project. The role may also contribute to, or align with, wider corporate POD programmes and priorities.

About the Role

This is primarily a project management role, responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering defined outcomes rather than providing direct operational support.

Key responsibilities include:

Designing and delivering a structured programme of work to review and improve risk assessment arrangements across education

Ensuring that risk assessment controls and mitigations are proportionate and aligned to individual school risk profiles

Establishing consistent arrangements to support the identification, understanding and ongoing management of risk profiles

Coordinating stakeholders, timelines, governance and reporting to ensure successful project delivery

Embedding sustainable processes, tools and guidance that can be maintained by services beyond the project lifecycle

The post is not a competent person role under health and safety legislation. Any requirement for competent health and safety advice will be provided in collaboration with the Council’s Safety Advisers within POD.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who can:

Lead and deliver project-based work programmes with clear outcomes and timescales

Apply structured project management approaches to planning, risk, governance and delivery

Analyse complex information and translate it into practical, sustainable arrangements

Engage, influence and coordinate a wide range of stakeholders

Work collaboratively with professional advisers, service leads and corporate programmes

Experience of delivering change or improvement projects, particularly within education or operational services, would be advantageous. An understanding of risk assessment processes is helpful but not essential.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the opportunity to deliver a meaningful, time-bound programme that will leave a lasting legacy—ensuring robust and sustainable arrangements are in place for managing risk across education services.

This job is temporary until no later than 31 July 2027.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

Please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.