Capital Projects Officer

# Capital Projects Officer Your differences make us different - #achievetogether## About the role North Northamptonshire is currently on an exciting journey to transform its buildings and infrastructure and as part of this, we are looking for a Project Officer to join our Capital Projects team.

As part of the capital projects team you will work to define, develop and deliver projects that range from £25k to £10M of which many can be considered complex projects due to the variety of internal/external stakeholders - funders, services, end users, clients and developers.  To lead projects managing external consultant design teams and contractor delivery teams.

You will have responsibility for the delivery of multiple projects at one time across a variety of areas, education, leisure, assets, communities and children's services, ensuring objectives are delivered realising all benefits with full governance observed.

You will need experience of working with a range of people internally and externally to deliver a project or initiative. Alongside this you will also need good organisation, literacy, numeracy and communication skills.

Projects will be based across North Northamptonshire and you will need you to attend site meetings or meetings in the office on average 2 days a week.
DBS check is required.

If you would like more information about this role or are interested in applying, please contact Dylan Smith dylan
** Project Management.
** Delivery of a suite of projects from brief through design and delivery. Procuring contractors, initiating, a project, planning, executing, managing, and closing the project to achieve specific targets to the agreed timescales.
** Stakeholder Management.
** Develop effective, relationships with stakeholders and partners, both internal and external to the council and to ensure that the councils programme of capital projects are delivered to specification, on time and within budget.
** Governance.
** To work within the legal requirements, policies, financial procedures, governance, procurement, framework rules and adhering to the recommended practice to protect the council from risk. Ensuring that all members of the project team are fully conversant with those parameters and approvals are sought at the required steps in the process.
** Risk & Issue Management.
** Develop and manage the project risk and issues registers, regularly monitoring and updating these to ensure the risks are managed.
** Finance.
** Providing monthly monitoring and forecasting, managing the accounting process from setting up the supplier to receipting invoices and monitoring payments to suppliers including value engineering where there are budget constraints or issues impacting the budget.
** Procurement.
** Responsibility for the end-to-end process of procurement for the project including tendering, selection and awarding of the contract for the specialist roles and the principal contractor.
** Leadership.
** Motivating, managing and setting parameters on the project such as time, cost and quality roles & responsibilities within the project team.
** Reporting.
** To report to the necessary project boards and stakeholders providing advice on required solutions to issues that have arisen during a project. To report accurate, up to date information to the relevant parties as and when required.
** Communication.
** To develop a communication plan to ensure effective communication with all stakeholders and the project team is maintained as set out throughout the project. This should establish the methods of communication based on the receiver’s requirements.### About youThe successful candidate will be agile and flexible enough to adapt ensuring the project has flexibility within its parameters to allow for change should the strategy, regulations or outcome require change during the delivery of the project.

The post will be remote working, however there is a requirement to attend the site, meetings and team meetings in person as needed, it is anticipated this would be on average 2 days a week.

You will have good numeracy and literacy and ideally a relevant project management qualification or equivalent alongside…