Contract Liaison Officer

Novus Property Solutions; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A property maintenance specialist is seeking a Contract Liaison Officer in Basingstoke. You will be the key liaison between customers and teams, delivering social value in a tenanted environment. The role includes problem-solving, customer service responsibilities, and managing communication effectively. Ideal candidates possess strong communication and IT skills, with a full UK Driving Licence. Benefits include a competitive salary, generous holiday options, and a company pension scheme, in a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Attractive salary & benefits

27 days holidays & bank holidays

Company pension scheme up to 7.5%

Car Allowance or Fleet Van

Discounted healthcare scheme

Paid volunteering day per year

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing environment, ideally in social housing.
• Ability to solve problems and meet deadlines.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Support liaison between customers, clients, and the community.
• Deliver and manage social value initiatives.
• Establish effective communication systems with site teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Presentation skills

IT proficiency

Job description

Contract Liaison Officer

Based: Basingstoke office; Site Based covering Newbury, Reading, Chippenham and surrounding areas.

Typically working 37.5 hours, 8.30am – 5.00pm

Our Contract Liaison Officers sit at the core and heart of everything we do. Ensuring that our teams are working effectively and because of your great communication and relationship building skills our customers are happy. Working in a tenanted social housing environment, delivering an exiting new retrofit scheme including Solar Panels, insulation, ventilation, windows and doors replacements.

Your experience in a customer-facing environment, along with ongoing training and development, will give you the ability to solve problems and meet deadlines along with the knowledge that what you are doing matters and positively impacts your customers and communities.

Fast paced and progressive, our people take responsibility and thrive in an environment where they are trusted; with a work/life balance that gives them the opportunity to feel motivated and satisfied at work and at home. Mainly site based role, with office presence on a weekly basis to complete administration tasks.

What’s in it for you?

• Attractive salary & benefits to suit you
• 27 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays
• Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
• Car Allowance or Fleet Van
• Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more….

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting site or contract with liaison between customers, clients and wider community
• Delivering and managing Social Value and an excellent Customers Service are key parts of the overall service Novus provide to our clients, with a passion to go the ‘extra mile’
• Lead on delivering all added value contractual commitments including planning and diarising community, skills and employment initiatives, keeping these in line with the Social Value Act
• Dealing with enquiries/issues relating to varying works delivered by our site teams and sub-contractors. You will act as the ‘voice and face’ at a contract and site level, demonstrating experience of delivering social value and a customer focused service in what can be a demanding public facing environment
• Establish an effective communications system to keep all the site team informed whilst maintaining good relationships with the customers and Novus team
• Coordinate the distribution of information regarding upcoming works and maintain information on current works and contractual commitments
• Carry out site visits with client and customers
• Dealing with complaints and resolving concerns in a positive manner
• Initiate/generate technical instructions, site notes and other site observations
• Identify possible case studies showing excellent Customer Service and Social Value impact to clients and for use in tendering new contracts
• Manage any reporting required for the Contracts
• Promote all good news stories and all initiatives with Marketing, ensuring we capture the good work we do

About you

Working as a Contract Liaison Officer, experience in communication is key along with confident presentation skills, ideally in a tenanted social housing environment. Your ability to be proficient in IT is also essential to fulfil and develop the role. Flexibility is essential with regards to hours and travel. The role requires you to hold a Full UK Driving Licence and a DBS check will be completed.

About us

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 19 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 128-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.

At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for to join our award-winning Property Maintenance company in this, or another role.