Estate Enhancement Project Manager, GET STAFFED ONLINE RECRUITMENT LIMITED

Guardian Jobs; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Our client offers a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!

Our client is recruiting for an Estate Enhancement Project Manager to join them and play a crucial part in the reviewing of a range of themselves plus funded estate enhancement projects working with residents, statutory and voluntary sector partners.

Contractually based out of Portsmouth or Basingstoke, this is a full-time permanent position, working 37 hours per week. They offer a flexible approach to working between home and their offices. For the first month, they would require you to attend the Portsmouth/Basingstoke office at least 3 days per week for training purposes.

Want to know what they can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• A generous contributory pension of 6% - They’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house and e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here’s the facts about the role:

As an Estate Enhancement Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for the review, development and delivery of all estate enhancement projects, ensuring they are customer led, to time, budget, specification and compliant with regulations.

The role will include all aspects of project and programme management including planning of works, risk management, delivery, contract management, H&S and signing off completed projects. The role also involves initiating and maintaining discussions with local residents on how to improve the estates and communities they call home, by chairing meetings with the necessary stakeholders, liaising with local authorities, third parties and voluntary partners.

The Estate Enhancement Project Manager will undertake regular site visits to ensure that works being delivered are to a high standard and that any issues which require escalation are appropriately escalated to the correct parties. You’ll deliver regular effective communication to all stakeholders ensuring they are aware of project plans, status and progress.

Given the nature of the works successful customer engagement is crucial ensuring that improvements implemented are user-led, completed to the highest standard, remembering their assets are people’s homes. It will be vital to build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, to achieve the desired outputs of every project.

You’ll have a Project Management qualification (APM/Prince2) with experience of successfully managing multiple projects and contractors, and developing customer-led programmes. You’ll have good awareness and understanding of the social housing environment, emerging government policy and customer influence.

You’ll need to be able to travel between sites as part of your role, so you’ll need a full current driving licence with access to a vehicle available for business use.