Post: Pre-construction Manager
Hours: 37
Salary: £44,863 - £48,381
Location: City Hall, NorwichClosing date: 29th October 2021Interviews: w/c 8th November 2021
Norwich: A thriving city; a council with huge ambition
Norwich is a one of the UK’s great cities - a regional cultural and economic powerhouse. The city council is an ambitious, forward-looking authority with a clear vision for the future of Norwich and for how it needs to change as an organisation and respond to the developing needs of our community.
We are a seeking to expand our Housing Delivery Team which will be pivotal to help shape and deliver a major affordable house building program of at least 75 new homes per year.
Reporting to the Delivery Director, this is a pivotal role in implementing the design for a variety of housing development opportunities across Norwich City and ensuring successful planning applications can be secured on key sites across Norwich City.
You will be skilled and experienced in the delivery of new housing schemes, making significant contributions to the planning and design strategies of residential developments. The primary focus of this role will be to deliver new homes for Norwich City Council, but it will also support the planning strategies of NRL, the councils wholly owned commercial development company which build new homes for open market sale.
You will work either from home, a site office or the headquarter office. You will be able to benefit from a degree of flexibility to create the right balance of achieving a good working environment. Travel to and between sites is an essential requirement of role
If you are passionate and determined and share our ambition for ensuring good quality affordable homes for the people of Norwich, we want to hear from you. For more information or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Dave Shaw, Housing Delivery Director, daveshaw2@norwich.gov.uk
Job Description and Person Specification
Post ref: Assistant pre-Construction Manager
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £30,451 - £32,234
Location: City Hall, Norwich
Closing date: 29th October 2021
Interviews: w/c 8th November
Reporting to the Pre-Construction Manager, you will be skilled and experienced in the delivery of new housing schemes, making significant contributions to the planning, implementation and design strategies of residential developments projects across the city.
Holding either an appropriate professional qualification or demonstratable experience from housing development, you will work collaboratively with the Delivery Team and the Housing Delivery Director to deliver the council’s housebuilding ambitions, which is to deliver mixed tenure housing across Norwich City. Therefore, you will also be required to support house building activities in the wholly owned council’s commercial housing development company NRL, in ensuring the Team successful achieves the required outcomes of this ambitious house building program for Norwich City Council.
You will work either from home, a site office or the headquarter offices. You will be able to benefit from a degree of flexibility to create the right balance of achieving a good working environment. Travel to and between sites is an essential requirement of role
Job Description & Person Specification
Post: Technical Assistant - Apprenticeship
Post ref: TBCHours: 37, full time
Grade: 2
Salary: £19,698 - £20,092
Location: City Hall, NorwichClosing date: TBCInterviews: TBC
This is a fantastic Apprenticeship opportunity for a person looking to further a career in Construction, and specifically Housing Development. The role will report to the Contracts Manager, and you will be supported and mentored in the delivery of new housing schemes, making significant contributions to the successful delivery of construction contracts of residential developments across Norwich City.
You will be asked to engage and work collaboratively with the Delivery Team and the Housing Delivery Director, to deliver the council’s housebuilding ambitions which is to deliver mixed tenure housing across Norwich City.
It is a truly unique opportunity to be part of an exciting time at Norwich City Council, where the role will also offer exposure to support house building activities in the wholly owned council’s commercial housing development company NRL, in ensuring the success of this ambitious house building program for Norwich City Council.
The primary focus of this apprenticeship is to learn and gain valuable work experience of house building, whilst striving for a formal qualification. You will work either from home, a site office or the headquarter offices. You will be able to benefit a degree of flexibility to create the right balance of achieving a good working environment and full support of the formal qualifications we hope that this person will achieve. Travel to and between sites is an essential requirement of role
Closing date: TBC
Interview date: TBC
Job description and person specification
Post ref: Contracts Manager
Reporting to the Delivery Director, this is a pivotal role for the success of delivering the ambitions of Norwich City Council and new homes across the city. You will be skilled and experienced in the delivery of new housing schemes, making significant contributions to the successful delivery of construction contracts of residential developments.
You will work across all levels of both internal and external organisations, with an emphasis and focus on delivering build contracts and the management of variations in the building of new homes across Norwich City that can demonstrate best value, with a primary focus on the delivery new homes for Norwich City Council.
Post ref: 0140
Contract: Permanent, part time
Location: City Hall
Hours: 38 per month (alternating shifts)
Closing date: 7 November 2021
Interview date: 16 November 2021
We have an opportunity for a CCTV monitoring operator to join our Early intervention and community safety team. You will work cooperatively with Norfolk Constabulary to help reduce crime and ensure the safety of residents and visitors to Norwich City Centre at weekends.
You must be able to demonstrate good verbal and written skills and be a confident communicator. Experience of Microsoft Office, Word and Excel is essential, as is the ability to work methodically with high levels of concentration and vigilance.
You will be working Friday and Saturday evenings on alternating shifts of 6pm to midnight and midnight to 6am. Occasional additional shifts will also be required on weekday evenings to support events and public activities that occur outside of weekends. Enhancements will be paid for weekend and night work where this applies. The role averages 38 hours per month and involves up to three hours each month of supervision/team meetings during normal office hours on a weekday. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the service has had to adapt flexibly in its approach to delivering CCTV monitoring services to reflect the changing demand. Your ability to be able to work flexibly is key.
Experience of CCTV monitoring or security work is essential, and full training will be provided to achieve the SIA licence required to operate the CCTV system. If you do not already have a valid SIA licence for you will need to be available to undertake full SIA licence training for four days Monday – Thursday soon after appointment. You will also need to attend a system training session and a further morning for induction training.
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance – this will be undertaken as part of the SIA licence application.
As an employer, we strongly value diversity and strive to provide a working environment where everyone can thrive and is engaged and happy at work. People join us with a wide variety of previous career and life paths. We offer opportunities to everyone, don’t mind if you’ve taken a career break or been unemployed and we judge each application on merit. We welcome applications from people with a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background, who are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Interview date: 16 November 2021 (via Microsoft teams)
Job description
Person specification
Post ref:
Contract: Permanent
Location: City Hall and home working
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Grade: 7
Salary: £32,910 to £35,745 per annum, pro-rata
Closing date: This is an ongoing recruitment
Interview date: to be agreed with candidates
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With a five year capital programme of £250 million, including £25 million of Towns’ Deal funding to help drive forward long term, inclusive economic and productivity growth in Norwich and £71 million to provide new social housing, this is an exciting time for Norwich City Council. Furthermore, the council has an ambition to deliver almost 1000 new affordable homes over the next 15 years, whilst maintaining and upgrading our 15,800 existing assets.
We are therefore seeking to appoint a Service Accountant on a permanent basis, working both at City Hall and from home to provide professional advice, support and challenge to budget holders and senior managers across the Council.
The suitable candidate will be required to provide financial business partnering support to capital budget managers by providing financial insight and advice to support decision making. With experience of local government financial management, they will be proactive in engaging with business areas, providing support for financial planning, scenario modelling and budget forecasting. They will also play a key role in the closure of the accounts and will need to be able to work on their own initiative in a fast-paced environment. Experience of accounting for grants and planning obligations (CIL/Section 106) would also provide a distinct advantage.
The post-holder must be confident in quickly building effective relationships with a wide range of colleagues and partner organisations. Other essential requirements include the ability to use MS Excel, deal with conflicting workload demands and manage multiple work streams whilst meeting strict deadlines and targets.
For an informal discussion regarding the post, please contact Shaun Flaxman, Senior Finance Business Partner on 01603 987574 or Hannah Simpson, Head of Finance, Audit & Risk on 01603 989569.Job description
Person specificationClosing date: This is an ongoing recruitmentInterview date: To be agreed with candidates