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Summary We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead reservoir projects, for example at Stowe Landscape Gardens and Chartwell, and to support our wider regional approach to civil engineering projects. You'll be involved in works at some of our most significant sites, ensuring we meet our legal obligations alongside maintaining high-quality conservation and visitor experience. As part of our team, you'll enjoy an extraordinary diversity of work with knowledgeable and committed colleagues, beautiful places, and a great support network on hand. An ability to lead external consultant teams and to communicate with technical / non-technical stakeholders will be key. You'll directly manage projects, and so experience leading relevant projects, in excess of £1m, is essential. What it's like to work here Your work will provide property teams with advice and practical support, alongside our team of experts in conservation disciplines including project management, nature conservation, planning advice, building surveying, archaeology, curation and more. You'll be part of a dynamic and growing project management community, with opportunity to become a recognised lead in our region's civil engineer project delivery. You'll report to our Regional Lead Building Surveyor, working closely with Property Teams, Assistant Directors and other senior managers. This role covers the London and South-East region. Your contractual location will be the nearest National Trust consultancy office to your home location, but our hybrid working policy means you can balance office and home working with site visits and meetings at other National Trust places. We'll talk about this in more detail at interview, but you should expect to be at a National Trust site for 4060% of your working week. What you'll be doing You'll be leading key reservoir projects, ensuring our external consultants and contractors deliver the National Trust's requirements. As the internal Project Manager, you'll be our informed project lead, appointing and overseeing external designers and construction (NEC) project managers. You'll champion the big picture', ensuring works respond appropriately to our unique historic settings. The role will involve managing budgets, programming, risk management and reporting. You'll be key to stakeholder engagement, communicating with groups of varied technical knowledge. You'll also support our management team and project community by taking a leading role in our civil engineering and reservoir compliance approach, regionally and with national colleagues. In the future, you may line manage others. Whilst you'll have works at specific properties, your role will take you throughout our region. Who we're looking for You can view the role profile, which explains the potential scope of the role, in the document attached. We'd love to hear from you if you're Able to demonstrate extensive experience of successfully delivering complex end to end project/programme management, including defining resources, leading £multi-million procurement, securing project teams and matrix management across multiple projects/programmes. Able to demonstrate successful delivery of civil engineering projects (reservoirs, waterways or other relevant sectors e.g. highways), working with multi-disciplinary external design teams and using NEC contracts. You'll have an understanding of working in sensitive settings, and an appreciation of key industry standards, such as the Civil Engineering Specification for the Water Industry (CESWI) or the Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCDHW). An expert with up-to-date technical knowledge and skills - evidenced at a minimum by holding an APM PPQ/PMQ/MSP qualification. Experienced in mentoring others in the profession, and able to show evidence of ongoing CPD in your career to date. An excellent communicator, skilled at managing complex and challenging situations with competing interests and a diverse range of people. A flexible thinker and problem-solver, skilled at negotiating and building productive networks, and confident in using your expertise to influence decisions up to Executive level. An excellent communicator, skilled at managing complex and challenging situations with competing interests and a diverse range of people. A leader for inclusion, who finds ways to create an inclusive culture. The package The National Trust has the motto For everyone, for ever' at its heart. We're working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It's important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we're for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too. Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18) Tax-free childcare scheme Rental deposit loan scheme Season ticket loan EV car lease scheme Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria. Flexible working whenever possible Employee assistance programme Free parking at most Trust places Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer to support you.
The starting salary for this position is £40,296 per annum for working 36-hours per week. This is a full time, fixed term (maternity cover) contract for up to one year (July 2024 to June 2025). Are you passionate about engaging with communities and supporting them to transform their neighbourhoods? We are excited to be hiring a Community Link Officer to join our fantastic Thriving Communities service. This is a community-focused role where you will need to work flexibly within and across several local neighbourhoods, at home, as well as from the office. We care about building strong relationships and establishing meaningful local connections with residents, communities, and partners, and would welcome a conversation with the successful candidate about what hybrid working in this way would look like for them. Rewards and benefits 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year Paternity, adoption and dependents leave A generous local government salary related pension Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources About the team You will be joining us on an ambitious journey to transform the way we engage with our residents, get closer to our communities, hold conversations and listen to concerns, while supporting their ambitions. You will help us find ways to make it easier for communities to engage with Surrey County Council as an organisation and work alongside our partners, businesses and residents to help communities to shape the places in which they live. About the role You will be part of a team of Community Link Officers focused on empowering communities, understanding the ambitions of local people, joining in with what is happening and joining up people, funding, resources and assets to enable positive action to be taken forward in their communities. You will learn the story of each community, utilising asset-based tools, techniques and local engagement to identify community strengths and opportunities. You will assess how we can work alongside communities to make things happen. Working with local councillors and managers, you will help to further our approach, gather community insights and share the stories from our communities internally and externally to help shape local services. Shortlisting criteria We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about building active and participatory communities where people feel a genuine sense of ownership of the environment around them and where a voice is given to new and under-represented groups, interests and ideas. You will be confident in building rapport with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, with a strong focus on fairness and integrity. To be considered for shortlisting for this position your CV and answers to the questions below will clearly evidence: Highly developed networking, interpersonal, engagement and facilitation skills You are confident, creative and comfortable working in an agile way in response to community wishes You are a skilled writer and teller of stories, able to pull out the "so what" from the work you are doing and using everyday language to ensure accessibility for all Have knowledge of Asset Based Community Development (A.B.C.D) or strength-based practise and experience of its practical application Have an awareness of working in a political environment and experience of working alongside elected councillors As part of your application you will be asked to submit a CV and answer the following five questions: Please tell us about a piece of work you have delivered that required a combination of networking, interpersonal, engagement and facilitation skills? Please tell us about your experience of using Asset Based Community Development (A.B.C.D) or other strength-based practise? Please tell us about a piece of work or project that you were involved with that had an impact and how you raised the profile of this project? Please tell us about a time where you worked creatively to deliver a community-based project or piece of work and how you addressed any challenges that you faced? Please tell us about your experience of working in a political environment and/or with councillors? The job advert closes at 23:59 on 02.06.2024 with interviews likely to occur during week commencing 10th June 2024. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit. An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role. Our commitment Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where: The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.