Project Manager; New Homes – AR

Project Manager (New Homes)

• Service area:
  New Homes and Corporate Landlord Service
• Grade: PO5
• Reports to:
  
  Project Team Development Manager
• Your team:
  New Homes Development

We are determined to create a more equal Islington, where everyone who lives here has an equal chance to thrive.
To do this, everyone who works at Islington Council lives by a set of values which guide us in everything that we do: collaborative, ambitious, resourceful, and empowering. They spell out ‘CARE’, which is what we think public service is all about.

• Responsible for the delivery of up to 3 new build housing projects (depending on size), through all RIBA stages, with a value per Project Manager, of between £20m and £50m, either by direct delivery or via a development partner.
• Ensure that the projects for which you are responsible are delivered to cost (approved budget), quality and programme and meet project milestones.
• Manage multi-disciplinary project teams of up to 25 individuals for each project, consisting of highly qualified professionals and other development delivery staff, including architects, specialist consultants, Employer’s Agents etc. to drive the delivery of the council’s ambitious new affordable homes target and issue instructions as required.
• Complete monthly highlight reports on Power BI to ensure that senior managers always have access to up-to-date project information and provide additional information as required by the PMO Team for effective monitoring.
• Ensure funding is identified and project budgets are approved and monitor actual spend, committed spend, spend against contract sums, financial profiles and update forecasts for quarterly monitoring reports.
• Prepare Gateway reports, change control requests and other reports for governance approval, in line with the agreed process. Prepare reports and provide information in order to achieve all key stage approvals and various performance monitoring requirements.
• Ensure full and thorough Risk Registers are in place for each project, mitigation measures are set out and risks and issues are escalated in a timely manner.
• Carry out financial and viability modelling using the new viability tool
• Responsible for ensuring that planning conditions are discharged and building regulations complied with in a timely manner, using a tracker to monitor progress against these.
• Communicate, consult and engage effectively with a wide range of key internal and external stakeholders, Executive Members, Ward Councillors and with residents and local communities throughout the delivery process, from initial site identification to project closure.
• Proactively manage consultant, contractor and developer performance and value for money through contract arrangements and development agreements to deliver the required outcomes
• Ensure all project documentation is in place, filed correctly and accessible to the project team and the client team at all stages of project delivery. Record lessons learned to continually improve development delivery
• Apply development knowledge, skills and experience to drive delivery of new homes.
• Ensure projects are managed in accordance with all relevant policies, legislation and procedures and delivered in line with the Constitution, Financial Regulations and Procurement Rules.
• Draft responses to requests for information, Members Enquiries, stakeholder queries and complaints for review by senior managers being aware of the audience for which these are intended.
• Take all necessary action to ensure the project which you are responsible for meet their objectives
• Be the main point of contact for the schemes you are responsible for.
• Deliver the objectives set in your annual check-in and take responsibility for seeking training and development opportunities to continually improve your skills and knowledge to deliver the best possible outcomes.
• For large-scale and complex new build and regeneration projects work as part of a multi-disciplinary project team. This may involve reporting to a Principal Project Manager (PO7).
• Work collaboratively within the service area as part of a whole-team approach, and with colleagues across the council, to…