Job Description
Location: IPT - Old Oak Common - London (Please ensure you can travel to this location before applying)
Salary Base salary: c£26,650 pa to £31,300pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives, and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a Contract Administrator you will assist the HS2 project team who are responsible for administering the NEC3 Option F main contract with the BBVS JV (Balfour Beatty, Vinci, Systra). Please note experience of using contract management and administration reporting systems in large multi-disciplinary teams is essential.
About the role:
* To be responsible for supporting the commercial team in administering the NEC3 Option F main contract with the BBVS (Balfour Beatty, Vinci, Systra) JV.
* Maintain and provide updates on the CEMAR contract management system activities/actions and ensure accurate communication of requirements arising from these to the HS2 and BBVS JV commercial teams.
* Effectively translate the system outputs into forms and reports that are readily understood and that drive good collaborative and effective contract management behaviours.
* Provide guidance and advice to inform continuous improvement on systems and, in time, lead training and refresher training on systems.
* Report monthly and other frequency performance statistics and develop informative reporting templates to inform team performance.
* To support the commercial team in the Applications for Payment process verifying the application through to certification.
* To support the commercial team in managing the BBVS resourcing processes in assessing grades, rates and subsequent approvals.
* To participate and support the development of a collaborative culture within the IPT (Integrated Project Team) that encourages innovation, enhances functional capability, creates consistency of performance, maximises the benefits of knowledge sharing and embeds industry best practice across the organisation.
Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
About You:
Skills:
* Administration and organisational skills - including ability to use databases and document control processes.
* Ability to produce and manipulate a range of forecasting and numerical analysis tools including spreadsheets, pivot tables and databases.
* Analysis skills - including compiling, assessing and analysing business information and data reports to identify key issues.
* Ability to use Excel spreadsheets, MS Word and PowerPoint or equivalent packages
* Ability to liaise with managers, teams and individuals across the organisation
* Ability to demonstrate collaborative and partnering skills.
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of contract control systems such as CEMAR or document management workflows,
* Knowledge of Contract account management,
* Knowledge of NEC contract forms.
Types of Experience
* Experience in assessing and analysing business information and reports to identify key issues.
* Experience of working with or for publicly funded bodies and/or a publicly funded project.
* Experience of using contract management and administration reporting systems in large multi-disciplinary teams.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised, and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.