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Principal Project Co-ordinator

1 month ago

Derby, United Kingdom Derby City Council Full time

Application closing date

10/04/2024

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

Grade M, £53,389 - £57,792 a year

Contractual hours

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Basis

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Job category/type

Regeneration, Property & Housing

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Job description

**Directorate: Place**

**Hours: 37 hours a week**
**Contract Type: Permanent, Flexible working, hybrid working available**
**Location: The Council House**

Are you an effective, enthusiastic project leader, with a track record in leading complex regeneration, infrastructure or capital projects and managing external funding?

“Our City Our River” is a long term collaboration with the Environment Agency to increase Derby’s resilience to growing flood risk and realise significant benefits for our economy, wider environment and city living, working and visiting experience. The first package of works are complete and have been successfully tested, most recently during Storm Babet in 2023. We now have planning consent for the second package and need an experienced Principal Project Manager to join our senior team at a pivotal time for the OCOR programme.

As Principal Project Manager you will be driving forward delivery, together with your peer engineering lead, managing complex external funding and working hand in glove with our partners at the Environment Agency. You will be skilled at communicating progress, risks and issues on a complex infrastructure and regeneration programme to a variety of stakeholders and will contribute to the wider aims of the Department and Council as set out in our Council Plan.

If you are passionate about climate adaptation and making a difference, a strong collaborator and well organised with great problem solving skills then you would love working as Principal Project Manager in our team

**Who We Are**
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.

**What We Offer**
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:

- Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
- Hybrid working (depending on your role)
- Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
- Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
- Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers

**The Opportunity**
In the role of Principal Project Co-ordinator, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:

- Leading the management of budgets associated with the OCOR programme, including reporting to the relevant governance Boards and monitoring returns to external funders
- Leading on co-ordination of stakeholder engagement and communications of key OCOR programme activity
- Establishing and leading a system of effective project governance in accordance with established Council frameworks
- Leading commissioning and management of contracts with a number of technical support and consultancy partners to ensure effective delivery of the OCOR programme

**About You**
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...

A degree-level qualification or equivalent
Experience of delivering major regeneration or infrastructure projects
Skills in managing significant budgets involving a range of funding sources
A track record in effectively managing colleagues, project teams, consultants and contractors
Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration qualities
Knowledge of project management approaches
Ability to problem solve involving a range of stakeholders

**Next Steps**

Interviews will be held: provisionally on one or more of the following dates at the Council House, Derby City Centre: 16th, 18th, 22nd and 23rd April.

**Important Information**
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

**Equality, Diversity & Inclusion**

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

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