The role

Assistant Project Manager

Farringdon

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role

The safety of our customers, and therefore building safety, is our number one priority. This role will work across our diverse geography & portfolio to ensure we take a coherent and co-ordinated approach to building safety at a time when expectations are rightly increasing.

The successful candidate will be expected to support the Fire Remediation and major works team to manage and deliver projects forming part of the annual programme of remedial works related to Fire Remediation and major works department.

You will need to co-ordinate and work collaboratively with external specialist services providers including legal, fire engineering, building consultancy and contractors to deliver programmes of remediation works to improve the safety of the homes we own and manage.

You will contribute to the implementation and delivery of compliance within the changing legislative and regulatory framework.

The role will be based in London but maybe required to travel to any area of operation to provide coverage to Midlands and East Anglia.

What you'll need to succeed

• Applied Thinking -Makes use of relevant information to resolve problems, identify opportunities and reach appropriate solutions.
• Results Focused -Achieves successful delivery of tasks and objectives by effectively managing priorities
• Planning and Organising -Organises work and activities to meet objectives whilst achieving quality and value for money
• Managing Relationships -Builds and maintains relationships to achieve positive outcomes for the organisation
• Continuous Improvement -Looks for opportunities to improve (self, products and/or services)
• Degree qualified, in a related field, ideally CIOB, or RICs related course
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong intellect with the ability to analyse and act upon complex technical, financial and non-financial information and reach speedy well-formed conclusions.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
• Willingness to learn and improve technical knowledge and ability.

About us

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.