Senior Project Manager (Housing Development and Construction)

Community Integrated Care; Widnes; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retail discounts

Holiday discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Travel discounts

Career development

Job summary

Community Integrated Care seeks a Senior Project Manager (Housing Development & Construction) to lead a portfolio of high-value housing projects across the UK. The role is full-time and permanent, primarily remote with regular attendance at Widnes head office and project sites, including travel across England and Scotland.

You will oversee feasibility, design, procurement, construction and handover, working with operational teams and external partners to deliver high-quality specialist

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex, capital-funded housing development projects.
• Track record from design through completion and handover.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex housing development and major property projects from feasibility to handover.
• Oversee construction activity, QA and site delivery.
• Manage architects, consultants and contractors, with Employer's Requirements.
• Contribute to investment cases and business cases with specialist knowledge.
• Manage contractor valuations, budgets and milestones per contract.

Skills

Housing development

Project management

PRINCE2 Practitioner

Construction knowledge

Procurement

Contractor management

Cost control

Stakeholder management

Co-production

Education

PRINCE2 Practitioner

Tools

JCT contracts

Job description

The opportunity and what makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work

Helpshape homes that change lives

Doyou want to lead ambitious housing developments that genuinely make adifference?

We'relooking for a Senior Project Manager (Housing Development & Construction) to lead a portfolio of complex, high-value housing development projects that will expand and strengthen our specialist housing provision across the UK.

Thisis a full-time permanent role. Whilst based remotely, regular attendance at our Widnes head office and project locations will be required. The role includes national travel across England and Scotland to support development projects and stakeholder engagement.

What is The Deal for You?

• Flexibility! Work your full-timehours over four days and enjoy a long weekend, or spread your hours across five days to suit your commitments.
• Benefits: Retail discounts,holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through ourbenefits platform.
• Best Lives Possible: Join an award-winningcharity committed to helping colleagues and the people we support leadtheir best lives.
• Development: We are passionate about developing our people and supporting career growth.
• Dare to Learn: Access a wide range oflearning opportunities through our online training platform.
• Support: Access our EmployeeAssistance Programme, wellbeing fund and financial support options.

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

Thisis a pivotal role where you'll lead complex housing development projects from feasibility through to operational handover, delivering high-quality specialistaccommodation that enables people we support to live full, independent and meaningful lives. Working alongside operational teams, property professionals and external partners, you'll help shape projects through meaningfulco-production and ensure successful delivery across every stage of the development lifecycle.

This role focuses on majorcapital development projects involving significant investment, multiple stakeholders and formal governance requirements, rather than routine maintenance or minor refurbishment activity.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead complex housingdevelopment and major property projects from feasibility, land acquisition and design through procurement, construction and operational handover.
• Provide technicaloversight of construction activity, contractor performance, qualityassurance and site delivery.
• Lead the procurement and management of architects, consultants and contractors, developing project briefs and Employer's Requirements to support successful delivery.
• Contribute specialistproperty, construction and delivery expertise to business cases and investment decisions.
• Manage contractorvaluations, expenditure and project budgets in line with contractual milestones and delegated authority.
• Shape developments through meaningful co-production with people we support, families, advocates and operational teams.
• Prepare reports, recommendations and approval requests for governance forums, including the Executive Team, Trustees and Board.
• Identify and manage project risks, ensuring compliance with planning, legal, contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Lead post-project evaluation and benefits realisation activities to drive continuous improvement, value for money and long-term impact across the development portfolio.

About you:

What We're Looking For

You're an experienced housing development professional with a passion for delivering high-quality specialist accommodation that changes lives.

You’ll Bring:

• Significant experience delivering complex, capital-funded housing development or major construction projects within a housing association, developer or similar environment.
• A strong track record of managing development projects from design through to completion and handover.
• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent).
• Strong construction, commercial and contractual knowledge, including procurement, contractor management, quality assurance and JCT contracts.
• Strong financial, commercial and contractual awareness, including investment appraisal, business cases, cost control, contractor valuations and financial risk management.
• Experience contributing specialist property, construction and delivery expertise to business cases, Employer's Requirements and procurement activities.
• Experience engaging operational stakeholders, people who use services and families to shape design and delivery decisions through co-production.
• Experience managing multiple live schemes, development portfolios and competing priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a purpose-led organisation delivering meaningful social impact.
• Lead complex housing development projects that directly improve people's lives.
• Work in a collaborative, values-driven environment.
• Influence and helpshape our long-term housing strategy and specialist accommodation portfolio.
• Join an organisation committed to co-production, innovation and continuous improvement.

Interested and want to know a bit more?

To find out more about our charity check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zYkoj7x8s

We're really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.

The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones - and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.