Property Contract Officer WCC

Property Contract Officer WCC
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Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP

Hours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 29 July 2026

Interview date: Week commencing 27th August 2026

As a Property Contract Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Joining our Temporary Accommodation Supply and Operations team, you’ll provide high-quality operational support — assisting with the administration, monitoring and coordination of property contracts across the portfolio.

Your day-to-day will be varied and dynamic, involving everything from monitoring contractor performance and contract compliance to resolving invoice queries, raising purchase orders and recording expenditure. Taking a meticulous, detail-oriented approach to everything you do, you’ll maintain accurate records, documentation and systems to support effective contract delivery.

You’ll also work alongside contractors, suppliers and stakeholders to respond to queries and identify, track and
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Most importantly, you’ll put Westminster’s residents and communities at the heart of everything you do — ensuring they can count on safe, secure, high-quality temporary accommodation.

An established professional with experience in an administrative, coordination or support role within housing, property, contracts or compliance, you’ll have supported contract administration processes in the past. You’ll have some experience of monitoring or tracking performance indicators, and of supporting financial, compliance, audit or inspection processes through accurate record keeping.

On a personal level, you’ll be a true team player with strong organisational, administrative and communication skills. Your attention to detail will be second to none, and you’ll be confident handling data, coordinating meetings and activities, and working to tight deadlines. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive team putting residents across Westminster first, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual‑heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.

If you are from a Global Majority background you can self‑declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.