Assistant Manager, Infrastructure Grants Project Management
Assistant Manager, Infrastructure Grants Project Management
Vacancy close date 5th August
Interviews 14/15th August
A bit about the role
Working in a team with Louise Gemmill (Senior Manager – Infrastructure Grants Project Management, IGPM) and Paul Ahdal (Head of IGPM – North) , the Assistant Project Manager of Infrastructure grants will play a critical role in managing a range of small to medium grant investments and supporting team members on some of the larger and more complex grant investments under agreed assurance frameworks and Grant Determination Agreements . You will be joining our experienced, multi-disciplinary team, who are committed to making positive change in supporting infrastructure delivery and unlocking hundreds of thousands of homes across England.
The IGPM team looks after a range of infrastructure grant investments, from small grants to some of the largest most complex investments that Homes England makes (up to £250 million+ at project level). This role will include working on schemes funded by the Housing Infrastructure Fund and the Brownfield Infrastructure Land Fund, which cover the breadth of the country and vary in scale and complexity from project to project. These investments come with significant political and stakeholder interest and are subject to regular monitoring, reporting and assurance reviews. We are looking for a mixture of strong administrative, analytical and communication skills combined with the ability to prioritise tasks in response to urgent requests for information within tight timescales.
Paul believes in delivering first-class customer service, resolving project delivery issues informally wherever possible by taking an innovative and creative approach. The team highly values and encourages working in a collaborative and flexible way to foster good decision making and problem solving.
The Assistant Project Manager of Infrastructure Grants will have responsibility for managing a portfolio of grants at various stages in their life cycle (from preliminary works, through infrastructure delivery to the completion of housing units) requiring site visits to a range of geographic locations across England as well as supporting our Managers and Senior Managers with some of the more complex infrastructure schemes. There are some ambitious initiatives to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the infrastructure funding offering.
This is a rare chance to shape the future of infrastructure and housing delivery in a national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional team you will have the opportunity to help create new communities and places within the country.
A bit about you…
Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.
You'll be comfortable supporting the IGPM team with a wide range of complex funding and programme issues, ensuring that projects are performing in line with expectations. You will be proficient in project management, assurance and monitoring in the built environment with a desire to continue to develop professionally.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at every level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
With some experience of working as part of a dynamic team, you’ll be able to demonstrate that you can work with others in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will have a range of technical skills, experience, a calm professional approach to getting work done, tenacity in problem solving and a willingness to learn. You will be happy travelling to team meetings and wider Homes England events around the country.
Having knowledge of the UK housing market, grant-based public sector programmes, property / infrastructure projects, contract management or analysis of project cashflows and appraisals would be very beneficial for the role.
If you've got the relevant skills or experience and a passion for how housing delivery can improve lives, then we would like to learn more about you.
What we offer...
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer 33 days annual leave and are totally committed to flexible working. Our career average pension scheme comes with a generous employer contribution, and we’ll pay for your membership of a relevant professional body. Our colleagues also have access to exclusive discounts and offers with leading high street names.
If you do ever need extra help, we have an employee assistance programme and financial well-being support. Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
Who are we?
We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.
We encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply. This is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.
Homes England is a geographically diverse community. We are hybrid working spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.