Programme Planner

Job Title:Programme Planner
Location:SouthUK – Home working with ability for occasional travel in South of England
Salary:up to £45,000 plus excellent benefits
About Us
We are the largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people in England. We manage 60,000 homes for people in later life across almost 1,700 sites and operate in over 85% of local councils in England. Helping people enjoy later life is our passion. It has been for nearly 60 years. And today, in an ageing society, our housing, care and support is needed more than ever.
As England’s largest provider of specialist housing and care for those in later life, we’re committed to creating choice and opportunity for everyone. We put our residents at the heart of everything we do, listening carefully and shaping our homes and services around them.
And we’re proudly not-for-profit, which means every penny we make is reinvested into our properties and services, building more and innovating for the future so that people can have a home where they love living in later life.
Why Join the Property Delivery Team?
We are diverse team of over 100 colleagues delivering resident focused property solutions. We operate through a team of 50 surveyors each with a defined group of locations and each surveyor is responsible for between 30 and 40 locations.
This is an exciting time to join us as we conclude procurement of new contracts that will provide a transformational approach to how we deliver services to our residents and realise efficiencies for Anchor. To equip Anchor with the skills and capacity to realise the benefits of these contracts we are recruiting to various new roles!
The Role
As a Programme Planneryou will play a crucial role in supporting the Heads of Property and Head of Projects in the planning, coordination, and execution of our property schemes. With an annual project portfolio of approximately £70m, delivering hundreds of planned investment works packages, you will be responsible for programming activities, producing progress reports, and managing procurement/design schedules for both pre-construction and live projects.
Responsibilities will include:
Stakeholder engagement with Property delivery colleagues, strategic asset management, housing and care collegues as well as contractors.
Accurate programming of work packages from inception to completion.
Implementation of project planning in collaboration with the wider property delivery team.
Highlighting financial and project risks and issues
Managing and working with Admin support to update Anchors planned works reporting systems
Liaising with contractors and supply chain partners
Leading in an environment of significant change.
Building a resilient and reliable service.
About You
To be successful in this role we’d like you to have:
Experience of working in a Housing / Care environment
Understanding of how to approach large, geographically spread internal/external programmes of works made up of many individual projects across multiple contracts
Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement
GCSE’s including Maths and English.
Membership of or willingness to work towards CIOB / RICs is desirable
Recognised experience with MS Project or other project management tools.
Track record of delivering construction programmes.
Experience with high-value, partnering contracts, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery.
Contributing to and initiating change to improve working practices.
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
Mental health support
Flexible working options
Access to online GP appointments
Finance
Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
Quick and easy pension transfer service
Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
Career
Ongoing personal and professional development programme
Leadership Pathways online learning resources
Career progression and promotion opportunities
To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicatedbeing well websitePlease follow the link or copy and paste into your browser
Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.
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