Norfolk County Council
Specialist Housing Project Manager 10798
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Specialist Housing Project Manager
10798 | permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum | Grade L | Norwich/hybrid
Opportunity to work in the adult social care specialist housing team as a project manager for all things process, promotion, and engagement.
Are you dynamic, politically astute, and a great communicator, and want to develop those skills in a Project Manager role?
We have an opportunity to join the housing team as a Project Manager, covering a whole range of tasks to ensure newly developed sites are a success.
You will project manage a range of activities and take responsibility for actions and identifying areas for improvement.
This is a varied role for a high-profile set of work.
Activities will include:
- Leading on new scheme mobilisation, including organising “team around the scheme” meetings
- Attending locality meetings to discuss and promote new schemes, ensuring concepts are well understood
- Identifying areas to improve the process of access to housing and taking the lead in bringing together parties to create pilots or change ways of working
- Working with corporate communications on marketing plans and press opportunities
- Liaising with members and partners to arrange site visits and tours
- Project managing cabinet papers and board papers
- Facilitating workshops, summarising outputs, and taking accountability for next steps
- Working across the council to develop new housing strategies
- Developing new e-learning courses
- Leading on the development of promotional case study videos
You do not need to understand the technical detail behind housing and social care, but you should demonstrate the aptitude to learn quickly, show political awareness, and demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to evidence in previous roles where you have taken the lead to make a change.
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If you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact the Programme Manager jessamy.hayes@norfolk.gov.uk
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part-time, remote, and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:
- 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema, and days out.
- A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments, and dependants’ pensions.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
- Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard-to-fill job
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We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.
Redeployment closing date: 23 July 2026
All other applicants closing date: 30 July 2026
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