GBP435 per day
6 Months
Housing Repairs and Maintenance Project Manager
As the Project Manager, you will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring of our programme to reintegrate the repairs and maintenance service, currently an arms-length company back into council control and management.
Main Duties:

• Manage the day to day delivery of the Project, which covers the delivery of 8 workstreams established to ensure a smooth transition back to the council.
• Lead employee engagement activities including workshops, roadshows and internal and external messaging.
• Provide support and cover for the Programme Lead on the delivery of the programme; leading governance arrangements and day to day management of the workstreams.
• Ensure all due-diligence activity has been completed and information is readily available and accessible.
• Drive forward stakeholder management across the project and build and continually maintain communication with stakeholders based on the communications strategy, which you will help to inform.
• Develop proposals for fit for purpose structures and lead the consultation processes.
• Provide project management expertise and support to the project governance arrangements involving the major stakeholders, staff, relevant professionals and other agencies.
• Monitor project progress, identify areas of development, develop the programme risk register and lead on the resolution of any issues, in order to ensure that the objectives of the programme are delivered within the specified budget, timescale and to the specified standards.
• Work closely with other members of the overall project team on stakeholder management, dependency management and sharing insights from the programmes/projects they work with.
• Undertake effective liaison with Trade Union representatives and manage and lead communication and engagement activity with employees and stakeholders.
• Ensure that professional input is provided from an operational and functional perspective throughout the programme.
• Effectively estimate costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the programme.
• Review, identify and challenge areas of concern, identification of risks and mitigations and escalate them to the project lead and project team where required.

Work closely with members of the Unitas management team to understand service delivery; budgets; structures and performance