Education Funding Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Education Funding Officer to be part of the Education Funding Team within the Children & Families Directorate.

Do you want to make a real difference to the education of our children and young people with SEND?

• Passionate about supporting services to improve outcomes for children and young people
• Highly organized, can work on their own initiative and be able to manage and prioritise workload within a fast-paced environment
• Excellent IT skills and confident in gathering and analysing information to support decision making and project management
• Collaborative approach to working
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Committed to learning new skills

If you want to be part of an amazing team delivering excellent services to schools, SEND colleagues & managers and other partners, we’d love to hear from you.

Our team looks after the Schools and High Needs Blocks of the Dedicated Schools Grant and provides various financial services to our maintained schools.

Your role will provide comprehensive financial support for the administration and distribution of the High Needs Block and other Education-related funding. You will manage and maintain IT-based systems/spreadsheets for the monitoring and forecasting of all DSG High Needs Block cost centres. You will use your excellent communication skills when providing advice, guidance and training to the SEND teams, schools and other education providers.

• A competitive salary (pay award pending)
• Access to Local Government pension scheme
• Generous annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Agile working, enabling both home working and office based working
• A generous Flexi Scheme
• Access to Occupational Health, Mindfulness sessions and other wellbeing initiatives
• Access to various salary sacrifice schemes – covering cars, white electrical goods and tax efficient saving contributions towards your pension
• Discounted travel pass
• Access to union membership

This role is being offered on a fixed-term/secondment opportunity to 31st August 2027. For a secondment, you must gain your manager’s approval prior to applying.

Apply online at  Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.

If you would like to discuss this role, please contact Sarah Lawton at s

The closing date for applications is Monday 22nd June (noon).