Neighbourhood & Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £47,532 to £52,584 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 June 2025 |
| Location: | Kingston Upon Thames, South West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Kingston Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3565 |
Summary
About the Borough
This special place in South West London between the capital and the country has been a Royal borough longer than anywhere else - it is where the first kings of England were crowned.
Today it is a vibrant and diverse borough, with a long history and strong cultural and community heritage. Kingston's riverside location, fantastic retail offer, historic market place and church, parks and gardens all make Kingston town centre the vibrant space it is, and each of our district town centres (Surbiton, New Malden, Tolworth and Chessington) have something unique to offer.
Situated in Zone 6, Kingston is among the best-connected town centres in London – with direct train links from Kingston and Surbiton stations to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and Tramlink.
Kingston’s people are innovative and entrepreneurial, and have a strong sense of community pride. The borough has been home to great industry and creativity for many years, reflected in assets such as the Rose Theatre, the International Youth Arts Festival and Kingston University, which boasts more new graduate business start-ups than any other.
We have seen tremendous generosity and compassion within our communities, particularly in response to COVID-19, which is a demonstration of Kingston’s key strength. The council offers a strong level of support to vulnerable groups and those who need additional support, which has also increased significantly as a result of the pandemic. Like most places, the average age of our population is rising as more people are living longer, so we are working closely with residents to help them maintain their independence and further improve the cost effectiveness of our service to meet the ongoing rise in demand.
Kingston is home to people from diverse and interesting cultures and backgrounds, which helps to create the rich sense of community shared across the borough. In particular, Kingston has a large Sri Lankan Tamil community and is home to more people from Korea than any other part of the UK.
About the Role and our Ideal Candidate
This new role will manage the procurement and management of third party contracts for the provision of communal services such as cleaning, grounds maintenance, fleet management, and ensure that service charges are accurate for tenants as we set a fixed charge per block each year.
This is a new role so we are looking for someone who has a knowledge of public procurement, management experience of third party contracts, knowledge of the legislation and administration of service charges for residential buildings, able to work as part of a team to ensure positive outcomes for the customer and the council.
About you
Experience of public procurement, experience of managing contracts, able to work on own initiative as part of a senior management team.Advanced spreadsheet skills and IT literate. You must be numerate
Knowledge of the Consumer Standards desirable
About Us
Kingston Council owns and manages the housing stock in the Borough. The housing service is Regulated by the Regulator for Social Housing. This new role will join the senior team procuring and managing public contracts for the benefit of Kingston tenants & leaseholders. aware that customers pay for these services as part of a service charge you will ensure we obtain Value for Money and that service charges are accurate for each block of flats managed by the Council.
This special place in South West London between the capital and the country has been a Royal borough longer than anywhere else - it is where the first kings of England were crowned.
Today it is a vibrant and diverse borough, with a long history and strong cultural and community heritage. Kingston's riverside location, fantastic retail offer, historic market place and church, parks and gardens all make Kingston town centre the vibrant space it is, and each of our district town centres (Surbiton, New Malden, Tolworth and Chessington) have something unique to offer.
Situated in Zone 6, Kingston is among the best-connected town centres in London – with direct train links from Kingston and Surbiton stations to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and Tramlink.
Kingston’s people are innovative and entrepreneurial, and have a strong sense of community pride. The borough has been home to great industry and creativity for many years, reflected in assets such as the Rose Theatre, the International Youth Arts Festival and Kingston University, which boasts more new graduate business start-ups than any other.
We have seen tremendous generosity and compassion within our communities, particularly in response to COVID-19, which is a demonstration of Kingston’s key strength. The council offers a strong level of support to vulnerable groups and those who need additional support, which has also increased significantly as a result of the pandemic. Like most places, the average age of our population is rising as more people are living longer, so we are working closely with residents to help them maintain their independence and further improve the cost effectiveness of our service to meet the ongoing rise in demand.
Kingston is home to people from diverse and interesting cultures and backgrounds, which helps to create the rich sense of community shared across the borough. In particular, Kingston has a large Sri Lankan Tamil community and is home to more people from Korea than any other part of the UK.
About the Role and our Ideal Candidate
This new role will manage the procurement and management of third party contracts for the provision of communal services such as cleaning, grounds maintenance, fleet management, and ensure that service charges are accurate for tenants as we set a fixed charge per block each year.
This is a new role so we are looking for someone who has a knowledge of public procurement, management experience of third party contracts, knowledge of the legislation and administration of service charges for residential buildings, able to work as part of a team to ensure positive outcomes for the customer and the council.
About you
Experience of public procurement, experience of managing contracts, able to work on own initiative as part of a senior management team.Advanced spreadsheet skills and IT literate. You must be numerate
Knowledge of the Consumer Standards desirable
About Us
Kingston Council owns and manages the housing stock in the Borough. The housing service is Regulated by the Regulator for Social Housing. This new role will join the senior team procuring and managing public contracts for the benefit of Kingston tenants & leaseholders. aware that customers pay for these services as part of a service charge you will ensure we obtain Value for Money and that service charges are accurate for each block of flats managed by the Council.
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