Project Manager

Do you have a talent for delivering and managing complex projects?

Are you keen to make a difference to the look and feel of our seafront. Do you enjoy working with a wide range of communities and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds?

We are looking to recruit a Project Manager to work in our Seafront team.  The role offers an exciting opportunity to work with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to deliver an ambitious and transformational project on the seafront.  The city already receives 12 million visitors a year and the seafront is one of the most visited in the UK but we’re about to make it even better and we need you to help us achieve this.

If that sounds exciting to you, then we would love to hear from you. 

Fixed term for:  until end of Feb 2025

Interview date: TBC

For an informal discussion, please contact Toni Manuel - Seafront Development Manager on 01273 290394.

About the role

The £15m project funded by the Levelling Up Fund has been developed by Brighton and Hove City Council with local community organisations to regenerate an underused area of West Hove seafront. The scheme will provide enhanced leisure and sporting facilities for local residents and will also attract visitors to a part of the seafront beyond the city’s traditional tourist ‘hotspots.’ Once completed, the project will transform a highly visible and substantial community asset, providing facilities in line with current and future expectations. The intervention will deliver significant remodelling and landscaping of the public space across a 1.5km seafront site, as well as the rejuvenation of the urban realm.

The project is high profile with significant community involvement and is currently in the construction stage.  As a West Hove Seafront – Project Manager, you will support the project by:

• working with a wide range of stakeholders and communities from diverse backgrounds to help shape the project, ensuring its inclusive and accessible
• guiding colleagues, partners contractors and the community through to completion and evaluation. 
• ensuring the council’s values, aims and objectives are embedded and the community aspirations are realised.

There's a lot to do and the timescales are tight. You will be someone with :

• project management skills, comfortable working in a complex political and community environment
• influential and inclusive communication skills
• a proven track-record of providing excellent project outcomes. 
• a degree or similar management qualification and be an accredited PRINCE2 practitioner or hold a comparable project management qualification or equivalent demonstrable project management experience. 

Why work for us:

• Opportunity to make a difference to the residents in Brighton & Hove
• Experience of working with senior leaders across the council
• Developing an understanding of working in a political environment
• Line management support for your continuous professional development
• Experience of supporting key projects and strategies

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Closing date: 11 February 2024.

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.