Project Manager (Design)

Cyngor Caerdydd/Cardiff Council; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardiff Council is seeking a Project Manager to join the Development and Regeneration Team in Wales. You will work with key partners to deliver capital schemes for integrated health, housing and social care priorities, shaping briefs and managing funding and business cases.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, influence across organisations, and build strong relationships to ensure projects are delivered to time and budget. Excellent communication and partnership skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering capital projects across health, housing, and social care.
• Proven ability to lead capital programmes and manage funding.
• Strong partnership and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development and delivery of capital schemes across multiple portfolios.
• Shape project briefs, manage business cases and funding requirements.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and external partners to deliver on time.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Communication skills

Job description

The Council's Development and Regeneration team are working hard to deliver high quality, sustainable regeneration schemes across Cardiff. We are passionate about engaging with our communities and delivering projects that make a real difference to people in the city.

The team are focused on enhancing community facilities and Hub provision, upgrading local district and shopping centres, and improving our housing estates. There is a strong focus on strategic partnerships with external organisations and we work collaboratively with partners such as Cardiff & Vale Health Board and Welsh Government to deliver much needed capital schemes for integrated health, housing, and social care priorities.

Due to the increasing range of exciting projects to be taken forward, we are seeking a Project Manager to help design and deliver our extensive work programmes. This is an exciting time to join our team and help deliver our aspirations. If you have experience manging and implementing projects within the built environment, then this may be the opportunity for you.

About the job

The successful candidate will work alongside a highly skilled, knowledgeable, and respected group of programme and project managers to deliver our work as part of the Development and Regeneration Team.

You will work with key stakeholders, including health and social care providers, the third sector, Welsh Government, community groups, housing teams and other public services, to understand current and future capital needs and develop appropriate solutions.

You will take a lead role in managing and delivering capital schemes for integrated health, housing and social care priorities. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will help shape project briefs, manage funding and business case requirements, facilitate design development, and promote partnership working throughout each stage of the project.

The successful candidate will have experience and knowledge of managing and implementing capital programmes or projects, across all work stages within the built environment.

You will have a proven track record of partnership working in a collaborative and engaging environment, with the ability to appropriately influence, negotiate and work across teams and organisations.

You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills enabling you to build successful relationships and trust with a wide range of partners.

The right individual will share our vision of delivering high quality, sustainable regeneration projects that make a real difference to people in the city.