Capital Projects Officer

Our Benefits

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme – the council pays a significant contribution on top of your own. It includes life cover and ill‑health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, with the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements where practicable to support a healthy work‑life balance
• Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, and support for a range of active Employee Network Groups

North Northamptonshire is currently on an exciting journey to transform its buildings and infrastructure. 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 ranging from £25k to £10M – many of which are complex due to the variety of internal and external stakeholders such as funders, services, end users, clients and developers. You will lead projects by managing external consultant design teams and contractor delivery teams.

You will have responsibility for the delivery of multiple projects simultaneously across a variety of areas – education, leisure, assets, communities and children’s services – ensuring objectives are delivered and all benefits realised 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. The projects will be based across North Northamptonshire and you should be able to attend site meetings or office meetings, on average, 2 days a week. A DBS check is required.

• Project Management: Delivery of a suite of projects from brief through design and delivery. Procuring contractors, initiating the project, planning, executing, managing, and closing the project to achieve specific targets within agreed timescales.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop effective relationships with stakeholders and partners, both internal and external to the council, to ensure the capital projects are delivered to specification, on time and within budget.
• Governance: Work within legal requirements, policies, financial procedures, governance, procurement and framework rules, and adhere to recommended practice to protect the council from risk. Ensure all project team members are fully conversant with the parameters and approvals are sought at the required steps.
• Risk & Issue Management: Develop and manage the project risk and issue registers, regularly monitoring and updating them to ensure risks are managed.
• Finance: Provide monthly monitoring and forecasting, manage the accounting process from setting up the supplier to receipting invoices and monitoring payments to suppliers, including value engineering where budget constraints or issues impact the budget.
• Procurement: Responsibility for the end‑to‑end procurement process for the project, including tendering, selection and awarding of the contract for specialist roles and the principal contractor.
• Leadership: Motivate, manage and set parameters on the project such as time, cost and quality, and define roles & responsibilities within the project team.
• Reporting: Report to the required project boards and stakeholders, providing advice on required solutions to issues that arise during a project, and ensuring accurate, up‑to‑date information is communicated to the relevant parties.
• Communication: Develop a communication plan to ensure effective communication with all stakeholders and the project team, establishing methods of communication based on the receiver’s requirements.

• Agile and flexible, able to adapt the project to accommodate change while maintaining its parameters.
• Remote working is the norm, but you must attend site, meetings and team meetings in person as required – anticipated 2 days a week.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
• Relevant…