Project Manager (Housing)

Salary: Circa £50,000

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract, Full time (35 hours per week)

Location: Winchester / Ealing / Staines (Hybrid role with the ability to work from home – regular office attendance in Ealing for collaboration)

About Us

We are one of the UK’s leading housing associations. Our vision is to improve people’s lives through high-quality homes and services.

We operate across London and southern England, providing affordable, private and social rented homes, student, NHS and temporary accommodation, as well as supported housing and homes for older people. We also offer high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through our FABRICA by A2Dominion brand.

Whilst we take a commercial approach to house building, all the profits the Group generates are reinvested into supporting our social purpose, helping to deliver more homes and services for customers.

About The Role

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for effectively planning, overseeing, and completing projects within established budget, timelines, and quality benchmarks. Additionally, you’ll ensure that client departments are ready to achieve and maintain the anticipated benefits.

More About The Role

Collaborate with the Project Sponsor to develop the business case for projects, meeting the agreed-upon standards by evaluating the high-level requirements, potential benefits, costs, risks, and issues.
Establish the project governance, including defining meeting frequency and reporting to Project Sponsor(s). Conduct regular Project Board meetings to update stakeholders on progress, address challenges, and seek decisions. Ensure timely upward reporting of project advancements and escalate issues promptly as needed.
Assemble and manage the project team to undertake the project, planning and co-ordinating both internal and external resources using the appropriate tools.
Effectively manage and guide project team members and third-party suppliers, motivating them to take ownership and responsibility for their tasks. Ensure that planned activities are completed, risks and issues are comprehensively understood, and are managed accordingly, with timely escalation when necessary.
Plan, coordinate and manage budgets, where required.
Lead on establishing project governance and associated deliverables. Engage with cross functional leads to define the document deliverables specific to the project.
Co-ordinate and engage with the Test Manager to ensure the testing activity is planned and executed as appropriate for the project.

More About You

Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in English (Grades A*-C)
Prince2 Practitioner certification or similar / equivalent qualification.
Experience in Housing of Local Authority with a deep understanding of the sector.
Proven experience of delivering large projects in corporate environments that include people, process, and technology changes.
Experience of industry standard project methodologies and frameworks
Experience of managing internal and external resources & stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience in implementing large IT systems.

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
Up to 8% contributory pension
Flexible working
Investment in your learning and development.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting The Role Requirements

We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer.

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.

A2Dominion Group

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