Specialist Project Manager - Housing Management System

TN United Kingdom; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing association in the UK is seeking a Specialist Project Manager to oversee the implementation of a new Housing Management System. The role involves managing stakeholders, ensuring project delivery within budget and timeline, and adhering to compliance regulations. This 12-month fixed-term contract offers a hybrid working model and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits

Up to 8% contributory pension

Investment in learning and development

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in full-lifecycle management of Housing Management System implementation.
• Strong understanding of rents, tenancy management, lettings, and income recovery processes.
• Proficiency in Agile, PRINCE2, or PMP project management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end implementation of a new Housing Management System.
• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan, timeline, and resourcing plan.
• Engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders and manage supplier performance.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Risk Management

Education

GCSE in Maths and English (Grades A*-C)

Project Management Qualification (Prince 2/ Agile)

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21.05.2025

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Job Description:

Specialist Project Manager – Housing Management System
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working
Contract: 12-month fixed term contract, 35 hours per week

About us We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

Role Overview We are looking for a Specialist Project Manager to join our fantastic Project Services Specialist Project Manager will lead the end-to-end implementation of a new Housing Management System (HMS), covering rents, lettings, and income recovery modules. This role involves senior stakeholder engagement, risk management, supplier management, and ensuring the system is delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan, timeline, and resourcing plan
• Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring proactive issue resolution
• Ensure data migration, system testing, and business readiness & user training are effectively managed

Stakeholder Management

• Engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Housing, Finance, IT and Customer Services senior management and subject matter experts
• Facilitate regular project updates, governance meetings, and reporting to senior management
• Work closely with the chosen HMS supplier to ensure system configuration meets business needs
• Manage supplier performance, ensuring contract compliance and agreed deliverables
• Coordinate system testing, acceptance criteria, and go-live processes minimising disruption to the business

Process & Change Management

• Working with the Business Change Manager, lead change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption by end-users
• Work with the training team to deliver training materials and coordinate user training sessions

Compliance & Data Security

• Ensure the project adheres to regulatory requirements, such as GDPR and social housing regulations
• Working with the data team, oversee data migration and validation processes to ensure accuracy and integrity

More about you

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
• Project Management Qualification (Prince 2/ Agile)
• Proven experience in full-lifecycle management (procurement to go-live) of Housing Management System implementation (, NEC, Aareon, MRI, Civica) to large housing associations
• Strong understanding of rents, tenancy management, lettings, and income recovery processes within social housing or local government
• Excellent project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex projects with significant business change impacts on time and within budget
• Strong stakeholder engagement and presentation experience from executive to front-line staff
• Proficiency in Agile, PRINCE2, or PMP project management methodologies
• Experience of developing approaches for, and delivering the following areas: system procurement, data migration, system testing and user training

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:

• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Investment in your learning and development.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request:

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 people 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.

A2Dominion is 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 ourpeople 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.