Metropolitan Thames Valley
Project Officer
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Project Officer (Vacant Possession) - Regeneration Team
Location: London / Agile working
Directorate: Development - Regeneration and Strategic Asset Management
Reports to: Senior Project Manager
The Regeneration and Strategic Asset Management team is responsible for identifying, securing and delivering regeneration and growth opportunities in line with MTVH's Business Plan and Investment Strategy. The team works across London and the south east, delivering projects from small infill schemes to some of London’s largest regeneration projects.
The team lead on the appraisal and optimisation of all residential and non-residential assets to maximise long-term value and performance, while building strong partnerships that position MTVH as a trusted partner for communities, customers and stakeholders.
About The Role
This post works across our regeneration projects and focuses on ensuring that properties are vacant in time for planned redevelopment and ensuring those that are vacated ahead of programme are secured and well managed.
- Working alongside our Senior Project Manager, this post assists with leasehold buybacks, our live-in guardians contracts and market rent properties.
- This work is central to being able to deliver our regeneration projects, and you will gain experience across a wide variety of developments.
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You’ll develop great relationships with residents as well as the Regeneration Managers leading the projects you work on. You will also work widely across the business, with colleagues in housing, lettings, property and sales. You’ll balance excellent customer service with project and programme needs, via great communication and rigorous attention to detail, ensuring compliance across our processes.
This role will suit someone who has prior experience of similar work within residential development in multi-disciplinary teams, whether for a housing association or developer. A sound understanding of the legal, procedural and commercial processes that underpin vacant possession work is important, together with prior experience of managing suppliers and contractors. The role has no direct reports, but requires daily collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are a must.
About You
You’ll be a confident, diplomatic, and personable team player, who consistently delivers great service and can adapt to the changing needs of large projects. Full details of the skills and experience needed for this post can be found on the job description, together with more on the day to day responsibilities.
Why join us?
- Play a key role in delivery of multiple regeneration projects
- Make a real difference to customers
- Flexible and agile working options
- Supportive culture built around Care, Dare and Collaborate
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If you’re passionate about regeneration and delivering positive change at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Metropolitan Thames Valley provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.
We also offer a range of care and support services. Our specialist areas include older people, mental health and transitional services which provide intensive support to marginalised or vulnerable people.
We deliver training programmes, events and activities for our residents, designed to boost employment opportunities and foster stronger communities.
A member of the National Housing Federation the G15 – which represents London’s largest housing associations – we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.
In October 2018 like minded housing associations Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing formally completed a partnership to form Metropolitan Thames Valley. We came together because we want to improve the services we provide and do more in our communities. We’ll do this by listening to our customers and working alongside them.
Phone: 0203 535 3661
Email: careers@mtvh.co.uk
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