IT Projects and Contracts Assistant

Jigsaw Homes Group Limited; Ashton-under-Lyne; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing group in England is seeking an IT Projects & Contracts Assistant to support its projects team in Agile environments. This role is tailored for a proactive, organised individual with strong administrative skills, aiming to enhance IT support capabilities. Benefits include a competitive holiday package, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive 24 days holiday plus bank holidays

Option to buy/sell extra leave

Compressed hours with potential for a 4-day week

Access to on-site gyms and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong administrative experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to coordinate procurement activities and liaise with suppliers.
• Proactive and highly organised.

Responsibilities

• Support the projects team in Agile environments.
• Provide essential support for IT administration.
• Help coordinate procurement activities effectively.

Job description

Overview

You'll play a key role in supporting our projects team (working in Agile environments), helping to coordinate procurement activity, liaising with suppliers, and providing essential support for wider IT administration. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills across multiple areas of IT support and delivery.

Role

We seek a highly organised and proactive IT Projects & Contracts Assistant to join our IT department. This role is ideal for someone with strong administrative experience who enjoys working in a varied and fast‑paced environment.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people. For more details please go to .

About Jigsaw Homes Group

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 37,500 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality, low‑cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the Department

All of Jigsaw's essential services rely on quality information, systems and technology supported by the 50 members of the IT department. Working to a brand‑new IT Strategy, the team has exciting challenges like enabling colleagues to work effectively from anywhere, automating processes and improving digital services for our customers, whilst always improving security.

The team is also innovating in its ways of working, ensuring transparency, a keen focus on outcomes and faster delivery of benefits to the business.

Benefits

Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a very competitive 24 days holiday per annum, plus 3 days for Christmas closure (5 day working week) plus bank holidays, plus additional days after 2 years continuous service (to a maximum of 5 days).

We offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year and we offer compressed hours of work with the option to work a 4‑day working week in a number of our roles, with 50% of your time working from home upon completion of a satisfactory probation period. This allows for a great work/life balance for many employees.

As a Jigsaw employee you will also receive incremental salaried pay, occupational sick pay, access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, BHSF membership, access to on‑site gyms and training/development opportunities.

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