Location: Civic Centre, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell, ML1 1AB
Salary: £45,243 - £49,765 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Work From Home: Hybrid
INTERNAL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY VIA MYSELF
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Do you have the vision, skills and proven experience to be part of a team that delivers infrastructure or physical regeneration projects to drive economic growth and enable local communities within North Lanarkshire to thrive?
To support the delivery of the Plan for North Lanarkshire, the council wishes to appoint a Project Development Co-ordinator as part of the Enterprise Projects Team within Enterprise and Communities.
In this role, you will be part of a project team that primarily delivers North Lanarkshire’s City Deal Programme, an exciting and challenging £277m regeneration initiative to deliver large scale infrastructure to stimulate sustainable economic growth for our area and the wider Glasgow City Region. A key focus will be on providing the City Deal team support on managing project budgets, financial governance and cost profiling.
As Project Development Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for supporting the development and delivery of infrastructure and regeneration projects of varying scale. You will work across the city deal team and Place teams and with external consultants to develop projects and support delivery with a particular focus on financial management. Project management skills will be critical with abilities to have an oversight of a project from inception to completion; working collaboratively across teams, services, partners and stakeholders; preparing and monitoring project documentation including cashflows and supporting procurement and the management of consultants.
To support project development and delivery, you will be involved in writing project business cases, funding bids and status reports in line with Council and GCR City Deal project management guidelines.
With a Degree, SVQ4 or HND in a related discipline, you will have significant relevant work experience in project development and delivery. You will also have excellent coordinating and partnership working alongside experience in project budget management.
With a focused approach to achieving outcomes, you will be a self-motivated individual with a flexible approach to work and have the ability to cope with multiple and changing demands whilst meeting deadlines. Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills are a prerequisite of this post alongside IT skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
You must be able to travel throughout North Lanarkshire and at times the wider Glasgow City Region to undertake the duties of this post.
You must hold a current UK driving licence to apply for this role.
Working Pattern:
* Monday - Thursday: 8:45am - 4:45pm (including a 55-minute unpaid break)
* Friday: 8:45am - 4:15pm (including a 50-minute unpaid break)
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If you’re considering a career with us, you’ll be keen to know what’s in it for you. We have a great package of benefits available, from health and wellbeing to finances and family. This includes 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays, and a wide range of benefits available to you, find out more at work well NL.
We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
North Lanarkshire Council is committed to #KeepingThePromise. This means that if you have ever been in care (looked after at home with a social worker, lived with a relative other than your parents, experienced foster, residential or secure care) you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
The Plan for North Lanarkshire is to be the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live.
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