Can you embrace a stimulating workload; do you appreciate a desirable working environment full of rich culture and heritage within the UK’s finest countryside and towns? Could you help us deliver benchmark regeneration projects, encapsulating urban realm, transport hubs, building refurbishment and highway modal switch interventions. Would you like to be part of a gifted, motivated and welcoming team of professional officers within the County and District Councils? Can you lead upon project management, mentor and inspire. Is a public sector role for you; benefits include cultural ambiance, job satisfaction, generous holidays, agile hybrid working from home, modern and stately offices plus market leading pension offer. North Yorkshire is interested in hearing from anyone who feels they would be a suitable fit for this role.
Our Team
The Major Projects and Infrastructure Team is a key resource within the Business and Environmental Services Directorate and comprises 12 full time staff, plus extensive support from multiple consultancy partners. Our core functions are to deliver capital programme infrastructure and regeneration projects, generally ranging in scale from £1m up towards current largest at £65m, while also working with strategic partners such as National Highways on circa £1b interventions. The team is also responsible for the Counties bridges and retaining structures capital works and maintenance of over 2000 assets.
The team works closely with the 7 District Council’s within North Yorkshire, which in Spring 2023 will amalgamate into a single North Yorkshire Council, to form the Uk’s largest council area in geographical size by over 50% compared to the next biggest and the 3rd largest in terms of population.
The role
Responsible for providing essential policy, project management, co-ordination and support for economic growth, regeneration of place and community, achieving shared outcomes and objectives. You will manage and co-ordinate key policies, projects, and partnerships ensuring delivery within agreed budget, time lines and quality standards. Stakeholder management, overseeing partner consultants & contractors, oversight of statutory orders, project financial oversight, risk management, procurement, programme and mentoring will all be to the fore in project deliverables. The post will be initially focussed on Selby and its £24m Transforming Cities Fund project and related work, but in the fullness of time post Local Government Reorganisation and TCF, would support other key regeneration projects across the County area.
What you will bring:
You should be educated to degree level or be able to demonstrate equivalent significant project management experience in the workplace; ideally a project management qualification such as Prince 2 or APM will support your application.
You will have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with multi agency partners, funding bodies, political leaders and public in achieving best project outputs and their support. You will be collaborative and embracing of the Teams warm ambiance, supporting colleagues and service managers in the delivery of transformational projects to enhance the areas urban quality, transportation options and economic opportunity.
Technical understanding will be an advantage and the wiliness to learn new skillsets working within town centre / highway / rail environments. Have the ability to problem solve and find practical solutions, have analytical and decision making skills as well as excellent organisation skills. You will also have strong ICT skills including the use of a number of different software packages.
What’s in it for you.
As a council we are lucky to benefit from access to modern technology enabling us to work from various locations – including several NYCC bases and from home as default in a hybrid working model. This post comes at no exception and the successful candidate will have an agile approach to their work, optimising resources and making the most of our flexible working options. We can offer you a comprehensive benefits package including continuous professional development; flexible working hours; premium local government pension scheme; salary sacrifice schemes and employee discount benefits.
This is an exciting and varied role that can be adapted to an individuals with the right skills and experience and avails future progression as the Counties devolution deal will lead to more capital funding opportunity.
Contact and apply
If you would like an informal conversation regarding the role, please contact Richard Binks on 07815 644264
To apply please click the Apply Now link below.