Are you a confident communicator with strong relationship building skills?

Do you have excellent project management skills and experience?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The role of Estates Project Manager is to support the Head of Property Investment to deliver and maintain an effective, efficient and sustainable estates' portfolio, supporting the needs of Corporate and Operational Business Functions.

The successful candidate will coordinate the delivery of property works projects across the DVSA estate. There will be a requirement to provide professional and technical advice, while supporting and challenging internal (e.g. Finance, Procurement and Operations) and external stakeholders (e.g. DfT, Landlords, Planning Authorities etc.).

This post is also responsible for the successful delivery of property projects, which includes customer liaison, drafting briefs, gaining appropriate approvals, appointing and co-ordinating external service providers and stakeholder management.

Role responsibilities

• Identify building/property related works and/or customer requirements, making recommendations and assessing priorities

• Responsible for interpreting requirements and translating into a concise and accurate Client Brief for issue to external Service Providers

• Be Subject Matter Expert for property maintenance, project/works delivery and Construction Design and Maintenance Regulations (CDM 2015)

• Commission and appoint Contractors to deliver RIBA Stages 0-7 activities and monitor progress against specification, budget and programme

• Provide information, briefings and papers to enable the Head of Property Investment to engage with Executives and Corporate Senior Leaders (CSL’s) to assess, develop, plan and agree Property Investment deliverables

• Provide regular project and dashboard updates to Estates Delivery Board, Investment and Change Committee and other project boards as required

• Prioritise works to ensure they comply with agreed strategies, budgets and recognises constraints, dependencies, or restrictions

• Ensure compliance with DVSA financial, procurement and contract management policies and procedures when commissioning works by Specialist Service Partners and when tendering works and awarding contracts

• Produce Business Cases for works below £100k and provide persuasive recommendations and/or solutions for approval.

• Approve changes or escalate recommendations for approval in the management of NEC contracts, such as Compensation Events, Early Warnings and Defect notices (within agreed delegated authority limits)

For further information, please see the attached role profile below.

About you

We are looking for someone with excellent project management skills and experience, along with experience in property and contract management.

You are an effective communicator and can deliver information to a varied audience, whether verbally or in writing.

You enjoy building positive relationships with stakeholders and colleagues, ensuring that there is mutual trust and respect.

You thrive working under pressure and can deliver quality work at pace to meet sometimes demanding deadlines.

Learning through experience is something that excites you and you will enjoy learning on the job if you are successful.

Closing date: Monday 28th December 2020.

To apply for this role, please click the ‘apply’ button today.