Project Manager City Deal (Capital Projects)

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Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 5 May 2025

Closing Date: Wednesday 16 April 2025

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: FC9 £44,225.49 to £53,141.91 per annum

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week

Location: Fife House

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV.

Job Details

To undertake management and delivery of an effective programme of Capital Projects as part of the City Deal and Strategic Funding Investment Programmes. Co-ordinating the delivery of the Fife investment projects. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining strategic focus, ongoing alignment and momentum in programme delivery. End to end delivery of a strategic economic growth and investment programme.

• Co-ordinating the delivery of the Fife investment projects within the Edinburgh & South East Scotland City region deal, the Tay Cities Deals and other Strategic growth/development Areas.
• Co-ordination of the oversight process for the negotiation, deal-making and stakeholder management of UK and Scottish Governments and private sector investment.
• Leverage the maximum external investment (including Developer Contributions) into Fife and investigate alternative financing and development models.
• Leading and ensuring delivery on budget, to time frames and to plan.
• Programme initiation, scoping, planning, delivery, testing and hand over to BAU.
• Building internal capability and capacity to enable the delivery of more infrastructure and faster.
• Supporting the development of economic investment business cases, for high-level initiatives, for approval, funding and prioritisation.
• Supports the Programme Manager and Service Manager on the overall investment programme, programme budgets and the delegation to project budgets; monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits.
• Managing a multi-disciplinary team of professional and technical staff, and contractors to deliver a range of capital projects involving the construction of small - medium sized industrial units and the servicing of employment land on sites throughout Fife.
• Undertaking land and property transactions relating to strategic town centre, retail and regeneration developments.

The Person

• Full membership of related professional body such as IED, RTPI, RCIS, RIAS or CIM.
• Experience of managing budgets with funding from multiple sources.
• Project Management, Report Writing and Managing Multi-disciplinary Teams.
• A driving licence is essential. Ability to travel within Fife will often be more appropriate.

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We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time.

For further information, please contact: Pamela Stevenson at pamela.stevenson@fife.gov.uk