About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 10 month secondment for internal applicants into a Project Manager role, delivering the Adults Health Partnerships and Housing Transformation programme.
This role will work across Adults Health Partnerships and Housing service teams to design and deliver change and transformation projects that are crucial to the business of services. Projects that are part of the programme now and in the future include the implementation of the new Adults Social Care Strategy, Review of Adults Provider Services Operations, implementing new technology, and projects relating to Housing policies.
The role will involve working in a fast paced environment, leading the project design and delivery requirements on a large number of complex projects, producing business case reports for governance, managing risks and issues, project planning and providing updates on progress and issues around projects in the programme with Senior Responsible Officers across the directorate.
Contact brian.hayward@northnorthants.gov.uk for an informal discussion if you want to find out more.
What will you be doing?
A key part of this role is overseeing the progress of projects in the Adults Health Partnerships and Housing programme, ensuring they are aligned with the strategic objectives of the Council and the directorate, and diagnosing and unblocking risks and issues which affect the projects.
You will need to prioritise your own workload and building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, especially Senior Responsible Officers will be key.
The person in this role will also be working alongside an expert team of other Project Managers and and Project Support Officers.
About you
You will be an existing NNC employee, who is ready to take a step up into the role. This is a development opportunity, so you’ll be keen to learn and grow, and you might not yet be the finished article.
You should have some experience and knowledge about project management, and be able to provide valuable contributions to delivering the programme of work.
You should be highly organised, thrive on challenge, be flexible and have the ability to develop positive and constructive relationships with service managers and subject matter experts.
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 than 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)
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