Senior Programme Officer - Building Saftey

Housing and Land

The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities.  Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.

About the team 

The Building Safety Team is responsible for delivering the government’s cladding remediation funds in London. London is in the midst of a housing crisis with many leaseholders living in unsafe homes and facing unaffordable remediation costs. Our objective is to make homes in London safe as quickly as possible and to protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs in the process. 

About the role 

A Senior Programme Officer in the Building Safety Team will lead on a portfolio of buildings, helping those responsible for the buildings access funding to remove unsafe cladding. This will involve supporting them through a rigorous application process including assessing submissions and making recommendations; managing milestones and grant payments; and monitoring progress of remediation works to ensure buildings are made safe as quickly as possible. You will also have opportunities to influence, change and improve existing processes, and work with central government.

What your day will look like 

• Engaging with project stakeholders – internally and externally.
• Data management – ensuring records and reporting on your portfolio of buildings are accurate.
• Sharing good practice with team members and presenting your projects.
• Assessing applications and writing clear reports on the status of buildings in your portfolio.

Skills, knowledge and experience 

• Experience of programme or project management and control techniques. 
• Having a recognised project management qualification or proven experience in project/programme management.
• An understanding of the housing, construction and building safety sector is desirable.
• Experience of establishing and managing complex, and sometimes challenging, stakeholder relationships to achieve positive outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience of using strategic research and analytical skills to support and enable project and programme development, delivery, and evaluation.

How to apply 

If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:

• Up to date CV
• Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the four competencies set out below.

We want to understand how your skills and experience are relevant to this work, regardless of your professional background. So please submit a supporting statement (no more than 1,500 words) that uses specific examples to demonstrate how you meet each of the following competencies as set out in the job description and person specification.

Please note that your written application should address only these four competencies and that, should you be shortlisted, the other competencies may be addressed in the interview.

1. Developing rapport and working effectively with a diverse range of people, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals (building relationships – level 2).
2. Consulting with, listening to and understanding the needs of those our work impacts and using this knowledge to shape what we do and manage others’ expectations (stakeholder focus – level 2)
3. Analysing and interpreting situations from a variety of viewpoints and finding creative, workable and timely solutions (problem solving – level 2).
4. Thinking ahead, managing time, priorities and risk, and developing structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard (planning and organising – level 2).

Please note all applications for this vacancy must be submitted via our online recruitment system. We do not accept CVs alone for this role. Please upload a personal statement to the ‘Additional Documents’ section of the form. Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. 

Please ensure your CV and cover letter/supporting statement documents are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g. “CV – applicant name - 012345)

Please note, if you do not provide both a CV and a covering letter, you will not be considered for the role so please ensure the above has been submitted before the deadline. 

If you have questions about the role

Assessment process 

Once you have submitted an application, your details will be reviewed by a panel.

If shortlisted you’ll be invited to an interview and assessment.

The interview/assessment date is: w/c 12 August and w/c 19 August