Senior Project Manager

Job Summary

Contract Type:

Permanent

Working Hours:

Full time

Advert Start Date:

14/12/2023

Advert End Date:

Closed for applications on 14/01/2024 23:59

Salary:

£52,580 - £58,064

Weekly Hours:

Vacancy ID:

105673

Closing date:

14 Jan

Further Information

Are you a successful Senior Project Manager who has successfully managed and delivered a range of complex and high-profile projects within the Property/Regeneration sector? Do you have excellent communication skills and a passion for placemaking and inclusive growth?

Peterborough City Council is a dynamic local authority with an ambitious regeneration and development agenda. Peterborough is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK. We sit at the top of the Oxford-Cambridge Arc and have seen significant investment enhance opportunities for living and working within the city in recent years. But there’s more to do.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing complex capital projects. You will work from project inception to completion. Your work will cover feasibility, business case development, instructing surveys and undertaking stakeholder engagement through to the commissioning of professional consultant teams and overseeing delivery. You will have a strong track record in capital project delivery and property with an up to date and applied knowledge of project management including planning, procurement, contract management and monitoring and evaluation.

You will be an excellent communicator, with considerable experience in stakeholder management and partnership working and a good negotiator with a strong understanding of the property market as well as local and national policy and strategy including the drive to net zero. You will be able to plan and prioritise work programmes effectively in the face of competing demands.

Peterborough is among the top 15 cities for innovation and business start-ups in the UK. We’re investing in the futures of our residents through ARU Peterborough’s new university campus, delivering a £22.9m capital programme through the Towns Fund over the next 2 years and bringing forward major regeneration schemes to deliver new homes and jobs to the city, including £48m investment into re-developing a Station Quarter. Now is a great time to join the Growth and Regeneration team at the heart of this to deliver real change for the people and businesses of Peterborough.

The successful applicant will be responsible for managing the delivery of capital regeneration projects;

We are looking for someone with
• Proven delivery track record across the RIBA life cycle in client environments or in consultancy environment fulfilling the client function
• Professional training, membership of relevant professional body or equivalent experience as senior project manager
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, capable of building effective working relationships with a range of partners and stakeholders
• Experience in procuring and leading consultants and contractors
• Knowledge of construction, public realm, and property projects
• Enthusiastic, have a flexible approach and be a team player

Previous experience of working within a local authority environment would be an advantage.

Interested?
For an informal discussion regarding this vacancy please contact Karen Lockwood, Head of Regeneration via e-mail karen.lockwood@peterborough.gov.uk.

Please note

This job is closed for applications.

Supporting documents

NEW JD - SPM.pdf (727.48 KB)

NEW PS - SPM.pdf (683.36 KB)

Job Pack.pdf (11.17 MB)