Project Officer-co-ordinater-manager in London

This is a Full Time Permanent Position. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and supportive team at the heart of an ambitious housing programme. Working on projects that help transform neighbourhoods and provide much needed new social housing, you’ll play a key role in taking development projects from concept through to delivery.

As a Project Officer, you’ll support and manage a varied portfolio of housing development and regeneration schemes, working alongside developers, contractors, consultants, local communities, and partner organisations. You will help bring forward new housing sites, engaging with residents, managing project milestones and working with partners to unlock opportunities for growth and investment.

We’re looking for someone who is motivated, organised, and eager to make an impact. You’ll have experience or knowledge of housing delivery, planning, construction, development or project management, together with excellent communication and partnership building skills. Your background might be in housing, property development, planning, construction, project management, regeneration, or a related field. Most importantly, you’ll have the drive to take ownership of projects, build positive relationships, and contribute to delivering high quality outcomes for our communities.

This role forms part of a career graded pathway from Project Officer to Project Manager, offering excellent opportunities for professional development and progression. On this occasion, we are looking to appoint at Project Officer level.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

The main purpose of the post is to provide skilled and experienced technical input and project management for the Neighbourhood Renewal programme, providing a strategic approach to transforming Hull’s housing market and improving the quality of lives for people across the City.

The post requires a high level of knowledge and skill in planning, communication and influencing as well as technical expertise in order to contribute to robust business cases for specific schemes. The strategic nature of this post resides in the need for the post holder to possess influencing and negotiating skills in addition to high level technical expertise.

To work with the Strategy and Development Manager; Project Managers/Co‑ordinators; other project staff and regeneration partners to develop, implement and co‑ordinate specific projects and initiatives to deliver the programme within agreed frameworks and timeframes. Working within a team some Project Managers/Co‑ordinators/Officers will focus on establishing capital projects including business case development, procurement and contract management, some will focus on stock and scheme appraisals, others on sustaining and development of effective partnerships to deliver regeneration. All will form a single team and need to be interchangeable in their knowledge and approach to cover for holidays and sickness and to manage intensive periods of work in one or other areas.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Strategy – To commission and manage feasibility and condition studies to inform options appraisals. To contribute to options appraisals, regeneration plans and business cases for new build housing developments, mixed tenure developments and other new housing initiatives. To contribute to Cabinet reports to ensure appropriate approvals are secured for individual projects. To contribute to officer decision records for a range of decisions. To agree with the project team the most appropriate procurement strategy for individual projects to ensure value for money and effective and efficient programme delivery. To contribute to technical specifications for projects and contribute to evaluation and appointment of contractors/developer partners. To play a key role in land transfers to partner organisations in partnership with the legal team and partners. To collaborate with senior managers, delivery teams, technical, financial, legal and other specialist advisors. To contribute to funding bids to a range of funders.
• Customer Focus – To communicate projects in a range of media and formats to ensure engagement of all stakeholders. To collaborate with a range of regeneration partners and communities to establish and deliver joined‑up, fit for purpose and affordable regeneration projects to transform Hull’s Housing Market. To provide key support for the regeneration mission of the Council, represent the programme at a range of events and ensure that stakeholders are fully consulted and engaged.
• Performance Management – To co‑ordinate specific work streams, and oversee consultants and contractors to deliver new housing; mixed use developments; re‑modelling/improvement schemes; and other new housing initiatives and ensure that targets and timeframes are met. To co‑ordinate and administer meetings to monitor project progress, issues and risks. To provide update reports to inform of progress on key project milestones and issues in a range of media for a range of audiences. To take a key role in issue resolution and risk management for specific projects. To monitor financial transactions for specific projects to inform budget monitoring and reporting. To contribute to compliance with funding agreements with a range of funders including grant profiling, grant claims and audit compliance. To ensure quality of the works delivered by advisors and contractors is in accordance with the scope of works and project specification.
• Statutory Obligations – To ensure that the client role under the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 are fulfilled for specific projects. To oversee that specific projects comply with Planning and Building Regulation requirements.

Compensation Grades: GRADES 8, 9, 10

Pay Ranges: £37,563.00 - £49,817.00

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process. We are committed to “our values” at the Council of People First, Respect, Learning, Ambition and Partnership. If these align with you then we welcome your application.