Senior Programme Manager

Metropolitan Thames Valley

Title: Senior Programme Manager – Fire Safety Team

Salary: £61,880

Location: Waterfront House/Hybrid Working

Fixed Term – 18 Months

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ?everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well?; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live.With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This Role

As Programme Delivery Manager in the Fire Safety Team you will develop, implement and manage processes and procedures to ensure MTVH exceed their statutory obligations when meeting the requirements of the Fire Safety Regulations. You will create and manage a programme of works with external contractors to deliver Fire Safety Inspection Regimes with MTVH?s portfolio.

The role will include liaising with residents, contractors and other key stakeholders, providing excellent customer service and playing a key role in keeping our properties warm, safe and dry.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure programmes is delivered on time, within budget, meet the highest quality standards and that all contractual obligations are fully met.
• Leading a small team to deliver successful inspection regimes and follow on works.
• Ensure a strong customer focused on all aspects of the delivery of the programme
• Effectively manage the operation delivery of Fire Safety Inspections to meet the requirements of the Fire Safety Regulations.
• Ensure all regulatory and organisational requirements around Health and Safety and Fire are fully always met and complied with.
• Promote value for money culture within the team.
• Work with contractors to meet challenging and realistic targets to achieve all aspects of project delivery, including productivity, performance and KPI
• Lead the procurement and commercial evaluation of contracts
• Challenge poor service in line with KPIs, and to ensure good customer service to front line staff and residents and escalate issues as appropriate to the contractors contract manager/s, and MTVHs Contract Manager
• Conduct regular reviews to ensure data integrity
• Proactively request, collate and analyse information from front line staff, contractors and consultants to assist in the preparation of reports detailing programmes of work and performance (including KPIs). Ensure the data is accurate.

Please see attached job specification for full details

What you’ll need to succeed

– Ability to run complex programmes and manage significant budgets effectively.
– Experience of building and maintaining relationships with contractors, stakeholders and customers to continually improve services.
– Experience managing or involvement procurement processes.
– Understanding of BIM systems, the Decent Home Standard and Fire Safety Regulations.
– Strong understanding of the Fire Safety Regulations
– Strong IT skills including software development

Please see attached job specification for full details including personal competencies.

What you need to do now

If you’re interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it?s the ideal job for you, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Interview date

TBC

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working – Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.