Procurement & Contract Officer – Housing Repairs
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £20.02 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Kensington, London, W8 7NX |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | K&C 5248255 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Procurement & Contract Officer – Housing Repairs
Job Ref: K&C 5248255
Pay Rate: £20.02 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2 months
City: Kensington, London
A DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role; however, the level of disclosure has not been specified by the client.
The purpose of the role is to support the Procurement and Contract Management Team Managers in securing the continuous development, improvement, efficiency and success of the Temporary Accommodation and Resettlement department as a whole.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist with developing and delivering strategies, policies and programmes to ensure the effective supply and management of accommodation for homeless cases, with a strong focus on reducing levels of usage and promoting value for money.
Commission, procure, and manage the supply of accommodation, including temporary accommodation, direct lets, and private rented sector accommodation.
Successfully tender, evaluate and let contracts to providers, ensuring quality, value for money and compliance with the Council’s financial regulations and legal requirements, as well as those imposed by external agencies such as London Councils and the MHCLG.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with private sector landlords, local managing and lettings agents and owners of empty properties in order to secure use of privately rented properties for households in housing need in the Borough.
Carry out inspections of properties in order to assess their suitability for households in housing need, investigate persistent disrepair complaints and/or to take property inventories for those properties. This will include some properties outside the Borough’s boundaries.
Ensure the effective supply of accommodation for households in housing need and providing effective contract monitoring support. Contributing to the delivery of ad hoc accommodation-related projects, including tenancy audits, delivery of property programmes and new contract development
Ensure that demand and supply data and performance and financial information related to the accommodation portfolio is routinely collected, analysed and acted upon, in order to effectively shape commissioning decisions, anticipate and /or manage service problems and control financial expenditure.
Ensure that the performance of all accommodation-related projects, contracts and service level agreements is effectively reviewed, monitored and evaluated, and that any under-performance, service failure and/or financial and legal issues are addressed swiftly and appropriately.
Ensure that systems are in place to ensure effective move-on from emergency accommodation, helping to minimise high cost placements and subsidy loss.
Interpreting and assessing customer needs, preparing forecasts and supply plans, identifying trends or mix, type, location, etc.
Ensure that the performance of all accommodation-related projects, contracts and service level agreements is effectively reviewed, monitored and evaluated, and that any under-performance, service failure and/or financial and legal issues are addressed swiftly and appropriately.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for another role.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Grade C or above in GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications.
Qualified to undertake property inspection under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System or ability to obtain qualification - desirable.
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of procurement and contract management including identifying and successfully addressing under performance
An understanding of the private rented sector and of the issues relating to the acquisition of accommodation, including security of tenure, health and safety, housing standards, and housing benefit regulations
Experience of working with private landlords and lettings agents
Experience of working in a social/private sector housing environment or related field.
Experience of communicating effectively to customers and at all levels of the organisation.
Skills & Abilities:
Good verbal and written communication skills including the ability to negotiate with accommodation providers and the ability to write letters, report, and procedures using plain English.
Ability to relate the Department’s objectives and policies in relation to the service, and to communicate these concisely, simply and sensitively to colleagues, customers and partners.
Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload, and to provide a consistently high quality of work with limited supervision.
Ability to take responsibility for one’s own and team performance in delivery of a customer focused service.
Ability to assess and communicate service issues and problems, and identify and cost appropriate responses and solutions.
A commitment to equalities issues and an understanding of how they relate to the Procurement and Contract Management Team and the diverse needs of its customers.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: K&C 5248255
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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