Job introduction

We are looking to recruit project managers to work in our Workstyles team. The role offers a varied, interesting, and diverse workload, working with colleagues across the council to deliver an ambitious programme of change across Brighton & Hove City Council, using property to drive greater collaboration and innovation between teams and partners.

It is an exciting and interesting time to be joining the team, with high-profile projects about to enter their delivery stage, including the largest regeneration scheme the city has seen in decades.

About the role

Have recent world events led you to consider making changes in order to achieve a better work/life balance? Join us in Brighton & Hove – a unique, energetic, diverse centre for culture in the South East, and an exciting place to develop your career.

There are so many great reasons to work in Brighton & Hove: reduce your carbon footprint, reduce time spent commuting, and get a genuine work/life balance. Our team members enjoy the benefits of flexible working, enabling them to fit work around caring for loved ones, nursery/school drop-off & collection times, personal matters, and fitness/hobbies.

In light of COVID19, the way the council operates is changing. We will also be leading work to modernise the organisation's workplaces and respond to this unprecedented challenge. You will be a key member of the team managing projects that will deliver the future ways of working for the organisation as we develop our future operational model, and acting as a business partner supporting directorates of the council to change and modernise.

As the successful candidate, you will have demonstrable experience of developing and leading project teams, successfully advising and negotiating with senior management, planning and managing projects in a change management environment to achieve agreed outcomes, delivering presentations to audiences and speaking with conviction, challenging the ‘status quo’ with authority, but at the same time with respect and understanding of other parties’ point of view, applying IT&D and Human Resource solutions, providing a Business Partner service, ideally in a Property & Design context, to a large and complex organisation, and using Microsoft Office and a process mapping tool, e.g. Microsoft Visio.

There's a lot to do, and we need someone who is passionate about making change happen, is comfortable working in a complex political environment, and has a proven track-record of providing excellent project management and acting as a role model for staff, managers, partner agencies, and stakeholders on change and improvement. You will have a degree or similar management qualification and be an accredited PRINCE2 practitioner or hold a comparable project management qualification or equivalent demonstrable project management experience.

For an informal discussion, please contact Gillian Churchill, Head of Education Capital on 01273 293515.

If this is you, then we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 16 January 2022.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community but particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, LGB, female or trans as these groups are currently under-represented in our Directorate workforce.