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Project Administrator (SOV)
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About Thriving Investments
Thriving Investments is a socially conscious fund manager focused on the living sector. We invest across a range of housing tenures that deliver market returns to investors alongside meaningful social impact. We currently manage over 5,300 homes representing £1.1bn of assets under management, with ambitious plans to grow to £5bn+ through the launch of new funds and the expansion of existing portfolios.
Thriving Investments is growing our affordable housing activity, including building new partnerships across the sector. This role will involve providing high-quality administrative and project support to help support that growth, working closely with colleagues across Thriving Investments, our parent organisation, Places for People, and with external stakeholders.
More About Your Role
As a Project Administrator, you'll provide high-quality administrative and project support across a range of workstreams, stakeholders, and partner organisations. You'll play a key role in ensuring projects, meetings, and governance activities run smoothly by coordinating diaries, managing meeting logistics, maintaining action trackers, and supporting the delivery of project priorities.
- Work closely with senior leaders, external partners, and internal teams to prepare agendas and meeting papers, take accurate minutes, track actions, and support timely decision-making
- Coordinate events, workshops, and face-to-face meetings
- Manage project documentation and support approval processes
- Help prepare briefings, reports, and presentations
- Ensure clear communication on project progress and priorities across the housing associations involved and with internal senior stakeholders
- Contribute to wider workstreams, including on the policies and organisational design of the organisation we are setting up
- Look for opportunities to improve processes and maximise the use of Microsoft 365 tools and AI to support collaboration and effective project delivery
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience providing administration, project coordination, or project support within a busy, complex, and fast-paced organisation
- Experience coordinating multiple meetings, actions, deadlines, and competing priorities simultaneously
- Experience preparing agendas, meeting packs, minutes, and action trackers, with responsibility for monitoring follow-up actions
- Experience supporting senior stakeholders, partners, or leadership teams through effective administration and meeting coordination
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working within the housing, property, real estate, or wider built environment sector
- Demonstrable experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to enhance business processes, drive efficiencies, and support data-informed decision-making
Please note: If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to shortlist candidates against the desirable criteria listed above.
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- Organised and proactive administrator with experience supporting projects, programmes, or busy operational teams
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring actions are completed to agreed deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail and confident in producing professional documentation, maintaining accurate records, and supporting meetings from planning through to follow-up
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and building positive working relationships
- Enjoy working collaboratively, taking ownership of your workload, and finding practical solutions that contribute to successful project outcomes
Benefits
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell days
- Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs, with private GP and health support services available
- Comprehensive wellbeing support including counselling, flu jabs, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and access to our Wellbeing Hub, supporting your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Access to Our Place Rewards, offering discounts and savings on groceries, travel, shopping, home products, and other lifestyle purchases
- Ongoing training, professional qualifications, internal development programmes, and career progression opportunities
- Recognition programmes including Star Awards and Colleague Awards, celebrating achievements and recognising great work
- Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing, and colleague engagement
- Free membership to Places Gyms
Advert Closing Note
We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities. As part of our commitment to finding the right person for the role, if we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early and shortlist against the desirable criteria.
What's Next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career, then apply following our simple 5-minute application process, upload a CV, and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions, please email the recruitment team.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.
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Please note that we may bring the closing date forward if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role, we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
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We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture, so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role, we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours.
If you are a recruitment agency, please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls.
Safeguarding
At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.
We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.
By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.
Armed Forces
We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured, and sick), cadet instructor, and military spouse/partner, and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview. The Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for NI) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do daily activities.
Neurodivergent
Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn’t allow them to self-advocate. Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.
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