Senior Project Manager RBKC613669

Job Summary:

Salary range: £64,929 - £74,220 per annum
Work location: London
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: 2x Permanent
Vetting requirements: Standard DBS Check
Closing date: 21st November 2024
Interview date: Week commencing 2nd December 2024

About Us:

Work with our residents and our suppliers to deliver high-quality new homes and other mixed use projects.

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective, and efficient. Having brought our social housing stock back under local authority control, we are now building 600 new homes to address a critical shortage of affordable housing. This is a major investment, and we want to ensure it meets the needs of our residents. That's why we make every effort to engage and involve them in the development process.

The Role:

Joining the team as a Senior Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to enhance your own prospects, and oversee and manage multiple complex projects from inception to completion, while making a positive impact on local communities. You will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards, while fostering a collaborative environment with all stakeholder.

Working closely with consultants and contractors, you'll deliver a range of projects. Ensuring high quality architectural, engineering and surveying advice, you'll embed best practice in the development of new homes and other construction projects. This starts with procurement and supply chain and continues to final delivery. At the same time, we expect you to meet ambitious targets, to exert strong financial control and to ensure value for money.

Please refer to the
Job Description for more information

About You:

This is a unique opportunity to use your expertise to champion the needs and wishes of our residents. A qualified and experienced project manager, you'll have a good grasp of the UK construction industry, including procurement legislation, supplier management and contract management. Experience of new homes development is key. A self-starter, able to both lead and work as part of teams, you'll have an agile, collaborative approach.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV's alone will not be considered for this role.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, the recruitment team by email:
recruitmentrbkc.gov.uk

This is a unique opportunity to use your expertise to champion the needs and wishes of our residents. A qualified and experienced project manager, you'll have a good grasp of the UK construction industry, including procurement legislation, supplier management and contract management. Experience of new homes development is key. A self-starter, able to both lead and work as part of teams, you'll have an agile, collaborative approach.

Work with our residents and our suppliers to deliver high-quality new homes and other mixed use projects.

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective, and efficient. Having brought our social housing stock back under local authority control, we are now building 600 new homes to address a critical shortage of affordable housing. This is a major investment, and we want to ensure it meets the needs of our residents. That's why we make every effort to engage and involve them in the development process.