Construction Co-ordinator

**About You**

You will have exceptional planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage your own time and workload. The role requires initiative, flexibility, tenacity, and a high level of dedication, to ensure the appropriate level of proactive coordinative support is provided across a broad spectrum of tasks to provide proficient and professional support.

As an effective communicator you are able to rapidly forge collaborative working relationships, you can confidently organise, plan, and prioritise across many tasks at once, ensuring key deadlines are met and clearly communicate with colleague’s progress and outcomes.

You will provide a professional, confidential, and efficient service within an environment of continuously developing demands. You will be a self-motivated, dependable individual who is able to work effectively with mínimal supervision and can quickly learn to pre-empt the needs of the Director and their direct reports.

A deep working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, is essential and knowledge of construction would be advantageous.

**The Role**

This role is primarily responsible for carrying out all administrative duties and coordination support to the Construction Department in order to help deliver the key milestone dates to agreed time, budget, and quality of design.

Reporting to the Divisional Construction Director key responsibilities will include:

- maintaining diaries, for arranging meetings and appointments
- maintaining and co-ordinating the Construction training
- responsible for obtaining and collating accurate information required for reports
- maintain standards and consistency by keeping up to date and operating within the latest defined standard specifications, using the approved documentation, process, systems, and source information to ensure consistent and effective performance

This is a hybrid role with up to 3 to 4 days a week working from our Southern Divisional Head Office in Ringwood.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Competitive Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies

**Your Attributes**

**You will have**:

- Ideally educated to first degree level or equivalent.
- GCSE level English and Mathematics (A-C).
- Secretarial qualifications to include advanced typing skills

**You will bring**:

- Composure and operate effectively in a pressurised environment.
- Personally accountable - a high achieving, target-driven and self-motivated individual who can make things happen.
- Approachable and dependable - able to rapidly forge effective and collaborative working relationship with others, both internal and external.
- Good negotiation, influencing and communication skills across all levels of organisation.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list