Programme Assurance Manager PR Schemes WCC619802

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Job Details:

Salary range: £54,684 - £74,487 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 24 months
Closing date: 9 March 2025

About Us:

The Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.

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The Role:

As Highways Programme Delivery and Assurance Manager with our high performing Highways Department team, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Delivering our annual capital programme of highways and public realm schemes, you'll manage the contractors and suppliers to achieve the strategic outcomes of the schemes. We'll also expect you to produce the documentation which enables key governance decisions to be taken, including key decisions, briefing notes, budget reviews, procurement gateways, and legal agreements.

Committed to developing relationships with key stakeholders and community groups to ensure the schemes maximise the opportunities for improvement, you'll develop funding strategies with internal and external budget considerations, and manage these in line with our financial procedures. Undertaking risk mitigation and escalation, and making effective and timely decisions, we'll also require you to manage relevant correspondence and promote the use of best practice.

About You:

With well-developed experience of working in the highways, public realm, place-shaping or built environment fields, you'll have delivered a number of high value, high profile projects and programmes. Capable of preparing project documentation and with a good understanding of local government procedures and public sector processes, you'll be a confident contract and project manager with excellent budget monitoring skills.

You'll be working with a diverse range of stakeholders, so it's important that you possess superb communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to quickly establish solid relationships. A positive problem solver and leader with a strong customer focus and experience of managing a professional team or function, you'll also be capable of considering different ideas and viewpoints, drawing your own conclusions and advocating for the best resolution.

You should have a qualification in project management or equivalent hands-on experience, and in addition to experience of preparing performance and monitoring reports, you'll be ready to work with a range of IT applications, including databases and financial systems. We'll also look for good contract and budget management skills, the ability to analyse financial information, and a thorough knowledge of highways and procurement legislation.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers, and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for an interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.