Contract Liaison Officer (Fixed term contract)

Novus Property Solutions; Rickmansworth; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car Allowance or Fleet Van

Pension scheme – up to 7.5%

27 Days Hols & BH – buy/sell holidays

Discounted Healthcare Scheme

Taste card & lifestyle discounts

Volunteer day per year

Length of service awards

Job summary

Novus Property Solutions is seeking a Contract Liaison Officer to support sites in Rickmansworth and surrounding areas, based from the Basingstoke office. The role is a fixed-term contract until March 2027, typically 37.5 hours per week, with site-based duties and weekly office presence for administration.

You will act as the primary liaison between customers, clients and communities, driving social value and delivering outstanding customer service.

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer-facing environment, ideally in social housing.
• Ability to present confidently and communicate clearly.
• Proficiency in IT with the ability to manage information and reports.

Responsibilities

• Liaise between customers, clients and communities to support site contracts.
• Deliver social value initiatives and maintain high customer service standards.
• Coordinate community, skills and employment activities in line with contract commitments.

Skills

Communication skills

Driving licence

IT literacy

Job description

Contract Liaison Officer

: Basingstoke office; Site Based covering Rickmansworth, Harrow, High Wycombe, Chelmsford and surrounding areas.

This role is initially a Fixed Term Contract until March 2027

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, loft insulation, ventilation, storage heaters, window and door 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
• We also offer a; Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and more…

An outline of your responsibility – Contract Liaison Officer

• 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 Office, 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

A Little Bit 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.