Project Officer - Building Safety (Regulation)

What you'll do
You'll be supporting the Building Safety Regulation team in demonstrating that residents in our high rise buildings are safe.

We're recruiting an 18month fixed term contract post.

Fixed term contract:
A big part of this Project Officer role is to put together Landlord Certificates for NHG's leaseholders as part of the sales and re-mortgaging process To do this you'll need to work with experts across the team and use your dynamic time management skills to get what you need to keep on top of deadlines. Meeting deadlines in this role is critical to provide the best service to customers and to meet regulatory deadlines.

As well as this you'll provide primarily desk based support across the team on other tasks and projects for the Senior Project Manager and Building Safety Managers and Safety Case Developers. The projects can vary over time so you'll need to be flexible in delivering a range of outcomes. This variety will however see you develop knowledge and skills to take further in a career in building safety.
Alongside these projects you'll need to be comfortable providing dependable administrative support, like minute taking and raising purchase orders.

How you'll do it

• Respond to Landlord Certificate requests as they are made by customers
• Gather information about our buildings to ensure landlord certificates are accurate.
• Gather key performance information about landlord certificates to be shared in a monthly performance review.
• Organise and schedule monthly meetings, including minutes taking, support for building safety regulation and share of Building Safety directorate team minute taking duties
• Raising Purchase Orders as required
• Provide cover as/when required across the team
• Provide general support to team members on various Building Safety Regulations tasks or projects as and when required.

The Ideal Candidate
This role could be a great secondment/FTC opportunity for anyone who wants to get involved with Building Safety and get an understanding of the legislation.

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential:

• Understanding of property leases
• Accurate data gathering experience
• Ability to manage own time and tasks effectively

Desirable:

• Ability to interpret key information from property lease

How you'll do it

• Manage incoming requests for Landlord Certificates, ensuring requests are completed within the set timescale.
• Record Landlord Certificate performance for reporting and continuous improvement
• Support ongoing projects such as uploading high-rise building floorplans onto fire brigade portals and assisting Building Safety Managers with key building information.
• Organise and schedule monthly meetings, including minutes taking, support for building safety regulation and share of Building Safety directorate team minute taking duties
• Raising Purchase Orders as required
• Co-ordinate key management system for high rise buildings
• Support with gathering evidence for applications for accreditation, such as Building a Safer Future
• Provide general support to team members on various Building Safety Regulations tasks or projects as and when required.
• Perform any other duties within the Building Safety Regulations Team reasonably required and within capacity.

The Ideal Candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential:

• Basic understanding of the importance of the requirements of the Building Safety Act on resident safety
• Dynamic co-ordination of own time and task
• Ability to work with others to obtain required information and action

Desirable:

• A safety or risk related qualification or completed training course
• Experience of a Fire/Building Safety related field

What's in it for you?
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
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We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: (url removed)/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now!
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via (url removed).

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.

Retinue Solutions is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Retinue Solutions is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.