Programme Planner

Job Title: Programme Planner

Location: South UK – Home working with ability for occasional travel in South of England

Salary: up to £45,000 plus excellent benefits

About Us

We are the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England. We manage 60,000 homes for people in later life across almost 1,700 sites and operate in over 85% of local councils in England. Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.

As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our residents at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.

And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.

Why Join the Property Delivery Team?

We are diverse team of over 100 colleagues delivering resident focused property solutions. We operate through a team of 50 surveyors each with a defined group of locations and each surveyor is responsible for between 30 and 40 locations.

This is an exciting time to join us as we conclude procurement of new contracts that will provide a transformational approach to how we deliver services to our residents and realise efficiencies for Anchor. To equip Anchor with the skills and capacity to realise the benefits of these contracts we are recruiting to various new roles!

The Role

As a Programme Planner you will play a crucial role in supporting the Heads of Property and Head of Projects in the planning, coordination, and execution of our property schemes. With an annual project portfolio of approximately £70m, delivering hundreds of planned investment works packages, you will be responsible for programming activities, producing progress reports, and managing procurement/design schedules for both pre-construction and live projects.

Responsibilities will include:

• Stakeholder engagement with Property delivery colleagues, strategic asset management, housing and care collegues as well as contractors.
• Accurate programming of work packages from inception to completion.
• Implementation of project planning in collaboration with the wider property delivery team.
• Highlighting financial and project risks and issues
• Managing and working with Admin support to update Anchors planned works reporting systems
• Liaising with contractors and supply chain partners
• Leading in an environment of significant change.
• Building a resilient and reliable service.

About You

To be successful in this role we’d like you to have:

• Experience of working in a Housing / Care environment
• Understanding of how to approach large, geographically spread internal/external programmes of works made up of many individual projects across multiple contracts
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement
• GCSE’s including Maths and English.
• Membership of or willingness to work towards CIOB / RICs is desirable
• Recognised experience with MS Project or other project management tools.
• Track record of delivering construction programmes.
• Experience with high-value, partnering contracts, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Contributing to and initiating change to improve working practices.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.

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