Development Support Officer

An opportunity has arisen for a 12 month fixed term or secondment to work as a Development Support Officer within the Assurance and Development team, supporting service development and assurance activity across Children and Families.

This role provides practical project and programme support to managers and workstream leads, helping to keep projects organised, coordinated, and delivered to agreed timescales.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council's Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

We are looking for someone who is:

• highly organised and methodical
• able to manage competing priorities and work to deadlines
• confident supporting multiple workpieces at pace
• comfortable maintaining documentation, plans, and reports

Key aspects of the role include:

• supporting the coordination and delivery of service development and assurance activity
• supporting the coordination of responses for Freedom of Information Requests
• supporting the monitoring and action of various mailboxes such as Child Friendly Warwickshire
• Supporting Children & Families governance
• maintaining documentation, templates, and version control
• tracking actions, risks, issues, and reporting deadlines
• preparing reports, briefings, and presentations
• supporting data collection and analysis
• providing reliable administrative support that enables projects to progress

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Further information can be found in the job description and person specification below;

Development Support Officer

Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feelsvalued, included, safe, supported,andwelcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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Additional Information:

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis, please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Abbey Baker () or call

This is a good opportunity to gain experience in a corporate support role within Children and Families, develop project support skills, and work as part of a supportive team!

Closing Date: Monday 23rd March 2026
Interview Date: Tuesday 31st March 2026

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more