Project Manager

Salary and grade: £48,530 per year, Grade 7
Contract Type: 3 year fixed term contract
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: The designated office base is Abbey House, Abingdon. The councils operate in a truly flexible, and hybrid way where the focus is on outcomes not where you work.

Closing date: 01 December 2024 (midnight)
Interviews to take place w/c 9 December 2024

About the role and what were looking for

Main duties and responsibilities

To manage large-scale, high-profile construction projects through the recognised RIBA stages, ensuring effective procurement and monitoring of technical and build suppliers while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement and financial management.
To identify and implement service and budget efficiencies across the corporate landlord function, managing project and workstream design, delivery and handover into business as usual.
To set principles, policies and standards for the governance of projects, assuring the agreed timescales, budgets and outcomes leading to business value are achieved.
Lead key projects and reviews in the specialist areas of construction and asset management, and drive implementation of new policy, procedures, and standards to ensure effective improvement and compliance within services undergoing transformation.
Manage experts in relevant fields to support the delivery of business projects; using appropriate channels to second temporary resources, recruit fixed term or permanent staff, hire agency contractors, and secure resources from third parties.
Ensure the full and effective handover of projects so that service areas understand their ongoing business-as-usual obligations and sign-off on all work.

About you

Your essential qualifications, knowledge and experience

Programme or Project Management Qualification such as MSP, Prince 2, APM, Agile etc Knowledge of a broad range of programme and project management techniques including the RIBA plan of work.
Awareness of the Local Government working environment and decision-making processes.
Two years experience managing projects in property, asset management or construction.

If you have the following skills, knowledge, experience or qualifications its a bonus

Contract management skills - the ability to monitor and manage supplier performance.
Awareness of the Local Government legislative context including data protection, procurement and equalities legislation as they affect public sector bodies.
Professional qualification, or working toward, in a property, facilities or construction related discipline, such as IWFM, RICS, CIOB
Recognised Health and Safety qualification such as IOSH or NEBOSH general certificate.

The benefits we offer

A basic 25 days annual leave per annum, rising to 30 days after five years. You also have all the bank holidays to look forward to and time off between Christmas and New Year.
Flexible working and annualised hours a flexible approach to work that our employees love!
Salary pay awards most jobs give scope for a pay increase after six months or the following April (depending on your start date) and we also review salaries each April.
A generous career average pension scheme which includes life insurance of three times your salary
The opportunity to purchase a bike through Cyclescheme (cheaper than directly through a store) so that you can cycle to work!
Various schemes to keep you healthy (reduced gym membership, free swims, free eye tests for DSE users and more)
We give you two days per year to volunteer within the local community.
A range of resources, support, and activities to help you maintain your wellbeing including a monthly wellbeing hour in addition to annualised hours (the ability to work flexibly as long as, over the course of the year, you complete your contracted hours) and annual leave.

We look forward to hearing from you.

You may also have experience in the following: Project Manager, Site Manager, Programme Manager, Project Management,

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