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- Transaction Management: Oversee land and property transactions from identification to completion, including feasibility and viability appraisals, and negotiating Heads of Terms. Strong negotiation skills are essential to ensure best value for money
- Development Options: Create options for large-scale housing, educational, leisure, and mixed-use developments with high standards of design, environmental, and ecological considerations.
- Project Management: Manage investment, regeneration, and development projects from start to finish, ensuring timely, cost-effective, and quality delivery.
- Team Leadership: Lead integrated project teams, including consultants, architects, and solicitors, ensuring compliance with development agreements.
- Procurement: Implement procurement and contract strategies, value planning, and risk management.
- Strategic Translation: Convert the Council’s strategic objectives into actionable and measurable proposals.
- Relationship Building: Foster effective relationships to promote affordable housing delivery.
- Deputising: Step in for the Strategic Lead for Investment and Acquisition when needed.
- Staff Leadership: Motivate and support staff to deliver excellent services.
- Budget Management: Handle delegated budgets and project planning, ensuring effective monitoring and control.
- Health and Safety: Maintain high standards of health, safety, and environmental management.
- Risk Management: Own project risk management, produce progress reports, and ensure robust performance and quality management systems.
- Documentation: Draft authority reports, business plans, project briefs, progress reports, and funding applications.
- Communication: Prepare responses to press, Members' enquiries, FOI requests, and complaints.
- Project Handover: Oversee handover and snagging procedures, ensuring defect-free completion.
- Consultation: Manage resident consultations on estate regeneration schemes.
- Compliance: Work with partners and advisors to ensure compliance and maximise benefits from land redevelopment.
- Flexible Working: Work from various locations as needed and attend meetings outside regular hours.
- Site Visits: Visit construction and investment sites, wearing PPE as required.
- Demonstrable Experience: Proven track record in delivering regeneration projects, managing complex programmes, and understanding the property market in London.
- Skills: Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills. Ability to manage budgets and identify funding opportunities. Strong negotiation skills are essential.
- Knowledge: Detailed knowledge of regeneration, development, infrastructure projects, and Compulsory Purchase Order processes. Strong knowledge of Section 106 is essential.
- Attributes: Creative, entrepreneurial, politically sensitive, and able to handle confidential information with professionalism and integrity.
- Qualifications: Degree level or formal industry-recognised qualification is essential. Membership of a professional body and evidence of continuous professional development are desirable.
