Employment and Skills Manager
Permanent Contract
£39,277 per annum

We are recruiting for an Employment and Skills Manager to play a key role in the management of construction and built environmental projects within the Corporation. Responsibilities of the role include managing a portfolio of construction employment and skills projects ensuring that they are cost effective, comply with organisational needs and meet a successful outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• • Provide day to day management for a portfolio of construction employment and skills projects.
  • To ensure a safe, secure, timely and cost effective delivery of projects.
  • Ensure clarity of identification, definition and specification of programmes and projects.
  • Apply appropriate project management delivery strategies to ensure a successful outcome.
  • Work with project partners (internal and external) to ensure the project delivers planning performance and outputs to time, budget and specification.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Professional qualification in Project or Programme Management E.G APM, Prince 2 or MSP or equivalent experience.
• Substantial experience of:
  • Analysing build strategies and employers’ targeted skills requirements,
  • Engagement with contractors’ procurement/commercial departments to maximise social and economic benefit delivery and,
  • Supply chain management and directly working with subcontractors to embed a “whole supply chain” approach to the employment and skills workstream, including organising and coordinating site-based meetings.
• Experience of working in a high profile/complex stakeholder environment involving construction employers and their supply chain subcontractors.

In return we can offer you:

• A competitive salary with annual increments
• 32 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 
• Local Government Pension
• Reduced cost gym membership
• Loan schemes for Season tickets, bike purchase, child care and tenancy deposit

** We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.   LLDC supports flexible working and this post will be considered for flexible and job share arrangements* *

To find out more about this role please download a copy of our recruitment pack and hit “ Apply Now ”

The closing date for applications is Friday 12 th January at 12pm Noon

Interviews will be held w/c 25 th January 2018