The Vacancy

We're VIVID! -We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!

We're currently looking for a passionate, experienced Major Works Project Lead to join our team in Portsmouth! We offer a flexible approach to working between home and our offices. This is a permanent, full-time position working 37 hours per week with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working within the Major Works team and other colleagues across the business.

Want to know what else we can offer you?

• 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
• A generous contributory pension of 6%. We'll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
• Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plan called Medicash
• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Access to counselling, legal and financial information
• Electric car scheme
• Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

Here's the facts about the role:

As a Major Works Project Lead, you'll oversee the delivery of projects within VIVID's Major Works Team, ensuring that objectives are achieved in accordance with our financial plans and targets. You'll manage multiple projects as directed by the Major Works Programme Manager including undertaking contract management of external partners to ensure that works are delivered as required to cost, quality and time targets.

You'll develop forecasts and plans of works and ensure the financial position of projects is clearly understood, taking into account commitments, spend to date and WIP. As owner of the project, you'll ensure that risks to projects are identified, assessed and appropriate actions undertaken.

You'll champion collaborative working, embrace change and work to VIVID's values and behaviours. This includes being customer service driven, analysing customer feedback to identify how service can be improved and put forward suggestions to improve customer satisfaction. It's likely you'll investigate and respond to some customer enquiries or complaints about service provided, seeking to provide a first-class service at all times.

Ideally, you'll hold a Project Management qualification (APM/Prince2), be educated to degree level / equivalent experience and will have a building related qualification at HNC/HND. You'll have excellent working knowledge and experience of managing projects and contractor management. An understanding of the social housing environment, including regulation and emerging government policy would be beneficial also.

As this role involves travel a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is a requirement. Business mileage will be paid.

Interviews are due to take place 25 November (subject to change).

The Company

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we're here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they're easy to use and access by our customers.

We're addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We're the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.

This is summed up in our vision "More homes, bright futures".

Living VIVID

As a 'people' business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people's development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.

Buy / sell
annual leave

Pension
scheme

Smart
working

From 26 days holiday per year

Private medical / medicash benefits

Enhanced
paternity / maternity leave

Qualification funding support

Electric car scheme

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We're committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.

We're a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.

If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us
on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We'll be happy to help.