Guardian Job Adverts

[baron von lotsov]

Fancy a well paid job? 40 grand a year. Well can anyone make head or tail of this?

BE SURPRISED. BE CHALLENGED.

BE PART OF MANCHESTER.

Manchester City Council

Directorate of Transformation

Manchester is an exciting place to be. Its shape, look and function are being transformed every hour of every day. New businesses, new ventures and new places to live are helping to reinvigorate the city, and now all eyes are on St. Peter’s Square. The magnificent Town Hall is to receive a dramatic overhaul providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to upgrade the services offered from these buildings. It’s all part of our vision to develop Manchester’s status as a major international city. No wonder then that we want the very best individual talent to help us to realise our ambitions.

Senior Project Managers (Grade 10)

Salary: £39,460 - £41,204

Ref: SRS/POM

We’re interested in candidates with extensive experience (minimum of 3 years) of working in a project environment which has led to a deep understanding of the Programme Management principles and Programme Management Office principles, processes and procedures. You’ll be required to oversee and manage the day-to-day functions of a Programme Management Office, including the provision of an information hub for the programme.

Closing Date: 22nd June 2009

Manchester City Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Application forms and further details are available from: Senior Recruitment Service, Room 3030, Town Hall Extension, Manchester M60 2LA Answerphone: 0161 234 3082 Text phone: 0161 234 3377 Email: seniorrecruitmentservice@manchester.gov.uk

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/871606/senior-project-managers-grade-10?RSSSearch=0&gusrc=gu_jobs_box_Network front&link=Network front_jbx_vac



"Programme Management Office principles" Does this look like something out of Orwell's 1984?

[unusual_suspect]

Wtf? That's just a fancy way of saying they mean a project manager surely.

[jammasterj13]

Don't worry mate, all the so called higher paying jobs are worded like this.

Some HR trollop usually earns her keep by writing crap like this.

From what I gather it's an advert for a Toilet Cleaner.:D

[asha loka]

Program management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Program management or programme management is the process of managing multiple interdependent projects that lead towards an improvement in an organization's performance.

Projects deliver outputs; programs create outcomes.[1] A project might deliver a new factory, hospital or IT system. By combining these projects with other deliverables and changes, their programs might deliver increased income from a new product, shorter waiting lists at the hospital or reduced operating costs due to improved technology.

Program management is concerned with doing the right projects, whereas project management is about doing projects right. Successful projects deliver on time, to budget and to specification. Successful programmes deliver long term improvements to an organisation. Improvements are usually identified through benefits. An organization should select the group of programs that most take it towards its strategic aims whilst remaining within its capacity to deliver the changes.

Terrifying stuff. :)

[baron von lotsov]

Here, I have an even more Orwellian one for you:

Manchester City Council

Educational Psychologist

Soulbury A Point 1-10 £32,163 to £42,129 Existing SPA points will be honoured

Ref: NB50638488/16

Essential car user

Location: Universal Square, Ardwick, Manchester M12

Hours: 35 per week

Permanent

AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO SHAPE THE FUTURE DELIVERY OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN MANCHESTER

Manchester is a vibrant, diverse and challenging environment in which to work. It requires passion, determination and resilience. You will find the value we place on our young people’s future reflected in the value we place on your skills and experience. Since April 2008, the City Council has radically changed the way educational services are delivered to schools, enabling schools to improve outcomes for children through greater funding and a wider choice over how they meet children and young people’s needs.

The Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is located within the Learning, Behaviour and Attendance area of Traded Services where the Business Management team in collaboration with the EPS’ professional managers, are committed to ensuring that Educational Psychologists are appropriately resourced and supported with ongoing CPD opportunities; up to date professional materials and ICT equipment necessary for high quality and efficient delivery of psychology. There is a commitment to the initial training of educational psychologists and the service benefits from having two training posts and an assistant psychologist.

You will be involved in a range of delivery through consultation; direct casework; training; development and research. You will offer core generic skills alongside contributing to more specialist work in one of four broad areas (Early Years; Atypical Development; Safeguarding/Trauma; SEBD) where you will have the opportunity of working with colleagues to further develop the Service’s knowledge and evidence based practice as well as policy, protocols and delivery.

There will be opportunities to work with a wide range of professionals. In particular, you will be encouraged to engage in collaborative projects with the Behaviour, Learning and Attendance teams in Traded Services. Educational Psychologists also work in a range of multi-disciplinary teams for example the hospital based Social Communication Assessment and Intervention Teams; the Adoptions Psychology Service and the Manchester Children’s Acquired Brain Injury Group.

With excellent motivational and communication skills, you must embrace working with schools as commissioners, embedding capacity for inclusion across all stages, relish working with children and their parents/carers and demonstrate resilience in the face of change and above all, be committed to the ongoing professional application of psychology to complex issues.

We welcome applications from people wishing to job share.

All disabled applicants who meet the short-listing criteria are guaranteed to go through to the recruitment assessment process.

For informal discussion about this post please contact Jane Sowerby (Service Manager of Behaviour, Learning and Attendance) or Anne Rushton (Senior Educational Psychologist) on 0161 219 6841.

Apply online at www.manchester.gov.uk/jobs

Application forms and further details are available from: Recruitment Services, Corporate Personnel, Level 2, Belle Vue Leisure Centre, Pink Bank Lane, Manchester M12 5GL. Tel: 0161 953 2775 or 0161 953 2784. Textphone: 0161 953 2785.

Closing date: 6 July 2009.

Manchester City Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer



http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/871833/educational-psychologist/

[baron von lotsov]

you must embrace working with schools as commissioners, embedding capacity for inclusion across all stages, relish working with children and their parents/carers and demonstrate resilience in the face of change

?

[baron von lotsov]

So who on here has had a job like the above?

Does anyone actually know what these people do? Would you pay £40 grand a year out of your taxes for these services given the choice?

[apekteina lordosis]

any smart "project manager" would know that when it comes to working in the public sector there is only one way to be involved, and that is as a contractor.

i've worked on a few pfi in the past and even the office admin, working on a contractor basis, were earning above 40grand.

so in some ways manchester are doing the right thing aka offering fixed salaries rather than "employing" contractors. if anything it will be a lot cheaper for the tax-payer.

[drhemp]

It is a ploy by Common Purpose to advertise all public sector jobs using this gobbledygook jargon that noone understands. This is to make them less accountable to the public and jobs can be created for which there is no actual purpose. I believe it is also a code for non-Common Purpose graduates need not apply.

This kind of jargon is Common Purpose's own version of Orwell's Newspeak.

“You will be concentrating on common delivery mechanisms and spend management solutions, category and supplier relationship management and stakeholder engagement approaches.”

That was a real job description in a recent advertisement for head of common delivery enablers at the office of government commerce, a department of the Treasury, for which they had £64k a year on offer.

[baron von lotsov]

It is a ploy by Common Purpose to advertise all public sector jobs using this gobbledygook jargon that noone understands. This is to make them less accountable to the public and jobs can be created for which there is no actual purpose. I believe it is also a code for non-Common Purpose graduates need not apply.

This kind of jargon is Common Purpose's own version of Orwell's Newspeak.



That was a real job description in a recent advertisement for head of common delivery enablers at the office of government commerce, a department of the Treasury, for which they had £64 a year on offer.



It sounds like a mission statement of the Red Army or something of that era.