Job Description

About Us:

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Regeneration, Planning and Economy in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and focused people like Mihir are using all their skills to improve and enhance the lives of the people who live, work and play in our borough.



As a Senior Project Manager, it's Mihir's job to make sure the estates in the south of the borough are great places to live. Since joining us, he's worked on many important projects, but is particularly proud of a recently completed major works project at Vale Royal House, in the heart of bustling Chinatown. In the pipeline for about 12 years, renovating the site has been one of the most complex and challenging projects ever undertaken by the council.



Before work started, Mihir had to liaise with dozens of different stakeholders, taking into account local events such as the Chinese New Year celebrations and the vibrant, round-the clock nature of the area. But after a challenging two year programme he and his team are proud to have delivered upgrade work to 117 state-of-the-art apartments set around a beautiful hidden courtyard, which are home to more than 1500 people from a hugely diverse range of backgrounds, sitting above 15 new commercial food and retail shops.



Mihir is dedicated to providing homes that people can cherish and be proud of, places where they can live, work and raise their families. His vision and inspiration has been the driving force behind the transformation of a rundown inner-city area into an oasis of peace, calm and security, and will allow its residents to grow and flourish in the heart of one of the world's great capital cities.

The Role:

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As Assistant Development Manager, you too can make a powerful contribution. You'll be helping to see projects through the development cycle, from concept to occupation. This will entail assisting specialists internally and externally to ensure that forecasts, programmes, costs, design and quality standards and timescales are all met. As well as assessing and overseeing all risks, including health and safety, in an appropriate manner. Key to this will be building meaningful relationships across Westminster City Council teams, developers, contracts, agents, legal advisers, consultants and property companies.



When garnering an understanding of a project and developing its brief, the Development Manager or Senior Development Manager will be on-hand to consult with - and at times, you may deputise for either role. Throughout the project lifecycle, you'll contribute to the communication of a project by taking minutes at design and progress meetings; providing accurate, timely reports; and updating development plans, including supporting the monitoring of key performance indictors.



Get involved in the essentials that bring a project to life -- from planning permission applications and technical proposals to site evaluations, budgeting, and wrapping up the final design. Alongside your team members, you'll procure and manage multi-disciplinary project teams. In both the procurement and development process, you'll ensure that all compliance, client requirements, design and technical standards are all robustly adhered to. After completion, you'll assist with the handover and aftercare, ensuring that implications are understood and formal approval obtained.



You're prepared to represent Regeneration, Planning and Economy, engendering its team spirit, and working within a project and the wider team to achieve mutual objectives. Plus, you're ready to commit to our overall goal of a Westminster that prioritises social value and the circular economy.



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About You:

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You've worked in a similar capacity on a high profile and complex residential and/or estate-based regeneration. This is matched with a solid understanding of project management methodology and application in regeneration and development projects. You're comfortable analysing and disseminating information. Not only are you able to identify risk, you're proactive about figuring out how to manage it.



You're a team player, who likes to take ownership and contribute to the team's overall performance and deliverability. Superb interpersonal skills are complemented by a comfortability working with a range of stakeholders. Plus, you are good at writing, data, and programme presentation. It would be advantageous if your IT literacy includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint.




We'd like you to be working towards a relevant degree or professional qualification or have equivalent work experience at an appropriate level. Either way, you're keen to build on your training and qualifications further.



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.



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

What We Offer:

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Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.



At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.



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.