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addressAddressManchester, Greater Manchester
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Job description

Working Hours: 35 Hours per week

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Additional Payments: Casual Car User Allowance

Closing Date: 23 April 2024

 

This role is subject to -

Casual Car Documentation - The successful candidate will be a designated Casual Car User which means that car journeys may be necessary on an occasional basis, but are not essential to the role. If you do drive, you must always hold a full valid driving licence and provide your own car for use at work, as well as provide all the appropriate documentation. You will receive an allowance per mile of business use.

 

An opportunity has arisen for a Project ManagerLevel 1 within the Housing Contracts and Investment Team in Strategic Housing. The team is responsible for the delivery and contract management of a number of high-profile housing led schemes across Manchester. The team also have strategic responsibility for Building & Fire safety, Regulation and zero carbon delivery plan. We are looking for a dynamic team player who will enjoy the varied and challenging work in project management, contract/performance management and ensuring services delivered are to a high quality.

Your Role

You will act as the Councils representative in ensuring that compliance is achieved by all our contractors in relation to building safety, housing legislation and contractual requirements.

You will have the responsibility for the management and delivery of a range of projects across the team.

You will ensure that all our contractors comply with the contracts, service delivery specifications, and procedures and to take appropriate action where the Contractor is found to be non-compliant.

You will take a lead role in promoting an effective relationship, good communication and mutual co-operation between the contractors and stakeholders both internally and externally to the Council.

You will also be responsible for reviewing the contractors performance including the application of any financial deductions set out in the contractual documentation.

About the Team

The team manages contracts for a portfolio of housing schemes that deliver key priorities of the City Council. These include 3 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes in Grove Village, Miles Platting and Brunswick. Collectively these PFI projects have improved the quality of all council owned homes within these neighbourhoods to Decent Homes standard and continue to deliver life-cycle and improvement works to maintain high quality energy efficient homes.

The team also has responsibility for the monitoring and support of the Contractors who manage other residual stock owned by the City Council, including  the two Tenant Management Organisation (TMO’s).

Following the Government Social Housing white paper and the Social Housing Regulation Bill, the team provides strategic direction, support and guidance to ensure all housing providers who manage council owned stock are compliant with any new consumer standards set by the Regulator of Social Housing.

Following the Grenfell Tower fire, the team is responsible for delivering the recommendations of the Hackitt report, working at a local and national level. Leading on Manchester’s role as one of eight ‘early adopters’ we are responsible for continuing to practically implement the findings of the Hackitt review. This is in addition to ensuring compliance with new legislation contained within the Building Safety Act and Fire Safety Act and supporting Housing Operations Teams to deliver these changes within the Council owned and managed stock.

The team also develops strategies and manages schemes for implementing the City’s drive towards zero carbon along with eradicating fuel poverty.

This role involves blended/hybrid working. You will be able to work from home or remotely some of the time, or for certain tasks or limited days or hours. For the remainder of the time, you will be required to work at council sites or offices. This will depend on your role’s responsibilities and your personal circumstances.

If you wish to discuss this role further, please contact Sofie Haig-Smith on 07908 022 543 or at [email protected]. 

Request

You will be someone who has:

  • A strong track record of working in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders, to include: tenants and residents, Local Members, Registered Providers, external contractors and other Council Departments.
  • Excellent communication skills with a wide range of audiences.
  • Ability to understand complex contracts and legislation and translate to plain language.
  • Experience of monitoring Key Performance Indicators and contract compliance. 
  • Effective organisational and planning skills.

Benefits

We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.  When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.  To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another: We take time to listen and understand We work together and trust each other We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things We’re proud and passionate about Manchester A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve. Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council  At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.  We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.    If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.      Guaranteed Interview Scheme As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria: Members of the Armed Forces and veterans Are currently in care, or have previously been in care If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition Accessibility  As a Disability Confident Employer, we provide support for employees with physical or mental-health conditions, a disability or neurodiversity. Our workplaces are accessible by design, and we make workplace adjustments including providing aids, adaptations and equipment. These, combined with our flexible working policies such as disability-related leave, enable our employees to perform their role, thrive and be their authentic selves in work.  We’ve also included some useful tips on how to submit the best application. When you join us  We want everyone to be able to be themselves at work and give their best. If you need additional support to undertake the duties of the role, we’ll make every effort to source any necessary aids, adaptations or equipment. If, however, any task proves to be unachievable, we will look at redesigning parts of the role.  Other relevant information  Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment Who we are - Manchester City Council  Privacy Notice
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