Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
Salary range: £64,317 - £67,812 p.a. inc. London weighting
36 hours
The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.
The South Kilburn regeneration programme is widely recognised for delivering a sustainable, thriving neighbourhood with a real sense of place and belonging. The Programme is delivering a diverse range of housing and regeneration projects including school, parks, medical centre, affordable workspace, district heat network, tree-lined boulevard, signalised traffic junction, each of which are rewarding and challenging in equal measure.
We are just over halfway through this ambitious Programme and are looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager to build on the past successes and take the Programme forward from strength to strength.
The Programme is at an exciting juncture and we are about to start dialogue to appoint a Single Delivery Partner with demonstrable experience of delivering multi-phase regeneration programmes with a focus on placemaking and community wealth building. You will play a crucial role in setting the tone of the dialogue to encourage and attract the right partner. To ensure it is a lasting and fruitful partnership you will work towards underpinning it with robust contractual and legal structures.
As a Senior Project Manager in the Service, you will be part of a high achieving team of regeneration and housing professionals, leading on defining, design and planning, procuring and delivering high profile capital projects. You will manage a small team of Development Managers, an extensive team of consultants and contractors and will work with colleagues across the Council and voluntary and community organisation in your daily role.
As part of the Service’s management team you will support the Head of Service in delivering the Council’s inclusive regeneration and economic development agenda.
You will have extensive demonstrable experience of the development process – business case writing, viability appraisal, securing planning consent, procurement, managing construction contract, good understanding of commercial and legal structures of a development agreement.
You will have a good understanding of estate regeneration process, experience and understanding of delivering high quality homes and built environment and a passion for improving life chances for residents.
If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.
Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.