The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
Like all housing providers across the country, Southwark has changed our approach to building and fire safety. Taking a national lead in ensuring that our buildings and residents are as safe as they can be and ensuring best practice in the areas where we know we can improve.
The role:
We are looking for a Project Assistant to support and help to lead our Building Safety Programme, this role will report to the Project Manager for the Programme.
About you:
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Project Assistant with a relevant professional qualification. You will be able to manage projects through the lifecycle and deliver them within appropriate timeframes and budgets.
You will have an understanding of the legislation and challenges relating to Building and Fire Safety and you will be able to work with a range of stakeholders from across the Council to deliver the best outcome for our residents.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page
Additional details
Internal only. We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment.
This post is offered as a fixed term contract for 2 years. We encourage internal staff to gain agreement from your substantive line manager before you apply if you are considering this is as a secondment opportunity.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Wednesday 24th August 2022 at 23:59
Interview Date: Wednesday 7th September 2022
SWCINT
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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