Adults Health Partnerships & Housing Project Manager (Internal applicants only)

What will you be doing?

Project Planning and management - understand all activities, phases, responsibilities and interdependencies and document them in plan to act as a foundation for coordination and management

Stakeholder management - Develop effective relationships with stakeholders and partners both internal and external to the Authority.

Risk & Issue Management – develop, manage and monitor the project risk and issues register ensuring that the risks are costed and mitigated to the lowest possible level that the Authority can accept.

Governance – Create and present highlight reports, including risks, issues and mitigations to the Change Improvement and Delivery  Board and briefings for Strategic Management personnel
Driving Delivery – Through the clear communication of expectations, scope, allocation and resources. Where possible facilitate activities to support the various teams in achieving their tasks.
Leadership – Share the vision, empower the team, encourage collaboration, open communication and learning across the project team
 

About you

The 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.

You will be educated to degree level or with equivalent experience and have a relevant project management qualification or equivalent alongside knowledge and experience of working with a project management environment.

Local authority or public sector experience is key particularly to provide a knowledge of elements such as governance, approvals and procurement processes.  

Knowledge of either Adults Social Care or Local Authority Housing responsibilities are desirable.  Experience of transformation in a public sector environment is ideal.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising that you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides 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, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)