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Housing Project Manager
Job summary
A local authority council is seeking an Interim Project Manager to lead the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 across Brentwood and Rochford Councils. This role is a 6-month agency assignment, managing a complex project to ensure compliance and timely delivery of key milestones. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience, knowledge of housing legislation, and excellent stakeholder engagement skills. This position entails a 37-hour work week and offers the possibility of a contract extension.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in project management, ideally within local government or housing services.
- Strong knowledge of housing legislation and the private rented sector.
- Experience delivering large-scale change or legislative implementation projects in a public sector environment.
- Ability to interpret and implement complex legislation and statutory guidance.
- Excellent leadership skills, with experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience in policy development, risk management, and governance.
- Financial management experience, including budget monitoring and funding management.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the multi-disciplinary project delivery group.
- Develop, manage, and monitor a detailed implementation plan.
- Track and coordinate workstreams across departments.
- Develop and review enforcement and related policies.
- Identify system and IT requirements.
- Support the development of a communications and engagement plan.
- Manage project risks and resource requirements.
- Ensure compliance with equality legislation.
- Manage the project budget and ensure reporting requirements are met.
Skills
6 months contract with a Local Authority.
Brentwood Borough Council is seeking an Interim Project Manager to lead the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 across Brentwood and Rochford Councils.
This is a 6-month agency assignment to manage a complex, multi-disciplinary programme of work, ensuring statutory compliance, delivery of key milestones (including the May 2026 go‑live date), and effective engagement with tenants, landlords, and external stakeholders.
- Lead and coordinate the multi-disciplinary project delivery group, working with Environmental Health, Housing, Housing Advice & Homelessness, Trading Standards, Legal, Finance, Revenues & Benefits, Data Intelligence, and Communications.
- Develop, manage, and monitor a detailed implementation plan to deliver the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 within statutory timescales.
- Track and coordinate workstreams across departments to ensure readiness for the May 2026 implementation date.
- Develop, review, and update enforcement policies, civil penalties policies, service charges, and related procedures.
- Identify system and IT requirements, supporting the development of processes, performance measures, and government-required data collection.
- Support the development and delivery of a communications and engagement plan for tenants, landlords, and partner organisations.
- Manage project risks, ensuring inclusion in the council’s risk register and appropriate mitigation actions.
- Assess and manage resource requirements, including training and recruitment needs.
- Ensure compliance with the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty.
- Manage the project budget, including New Burdens Funding and income from registration fees, ensuring financial sustainability and cost recovery.
- Ensure all reporting requirements to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) are met.
- Proven experience in project management, ideally within local government or housing services.
- Strong knowledge of housing legislation and the private rented sector.
- Experience delivering large-scale change or legislative implementation projects in a public sector environment.
- Ability to interpret and implement complex legislation and statutory guidance.
- Excellent leadership skills, with experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience in policy development, risk management, and governance.
- Financial management experience, including budget monitoring and funding management.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Location: Brentwood & Rochford.
- Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:30pm).
- Contract Length: 6 months (possible extension).
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