Are you the Project Manager we’re looking for?
Do you have a talent for procuring and mobilising contracts that deliver high-quality, value-for-money services?- Are you keen to develop and implement policies and procedures that improve consistency, compliance, and outcomes?
- Do you enjoy working with frontline teams and stakeholders to drive service improvement and innovation?
- Are you motivated by making a real difference to residents by improving the quality and reliability of housing repairs services?
You’ll be joining Brighton & Hove City Council’s Housing Repairs Programme Team working with the Housing Repairs service, which is responsible for maintaining and improving homes for residents across the city. This role plays a key part in ensuring our contractor arrangements, policies, and quality assurance processes deliver efficient, high-quality, and resident-focused services. As Project Manager, you will drive continuous improvement in delivery of procurement projects and service delivery, helping to raise standards and achieve better outcomes for our residents.
Contract type: This role is permanent
Interviews to be held: 11th and 13th August 2026
There is full information about the role below and attached, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Delia Smallwood on 07599 227 827 or email
[email protected]
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to drive service improvement, whilst ensuring regulatory compliance. As Project Manager, you will play a key role in shaping how our repairs service is delivered—ensuring our contractor arrangements, policies, and quality assurance processes provide safe, high-quality, and value-for-money services for our residents.
Tasks
In this role, you will lead on the procurement and mobilisation of contractor contracts, ensuring they are robust, compliant, and deliver excellent outcomes for residents. You will develop and review policies and procedures that bring consistency, clarity, and continuous improvement to our service.
Your day-to-day work will include working with internal teams to monitor quality and address issues. You will support service areas with quality assurance frameworks, using data and insight to identify trends, reduce risk, and improve customer experience.
You will also collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders—frontline teams, senior leaders, and external partners—helping to embed new ways of working and ensure that services are responsive to the diverse needs of Brighton & Hove’s residents.
Skills
You will bring significant experience in project management, including the successful delivery of procurement and service improvements, ideally within a housing or public sector environment. You will have a strong track record of planning, coordinating, and delivering projects that achieve value for money, while maintaining high-quality service outcomes and delivered on time.
You will be skilled in developing and implementing policies, procedures, and project governance frameworks, ensuring that strategic objectives are translated into clear, practical processes and deliverables. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities will enable you to identify risks, manage dependencies, monitor performance, and use data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement and support effective decision-making.
Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and relationship management skills are essential. You will be confident leading cross-functional teams, managing competing priorities, and influencing stakeholders at all levels to deliver project objectives and embed sustainable change within a complex organisational environment.
We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we value different perspectives that help us better serve our communities. If you meet most of the criteria and are motivated to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits
Joining our Housing Repairs Programme Team offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work that improves residents’ homes and quality of life across the city. You will be part of a collaborative and supportive team that values innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
We are committed to your professional development, offering access to training, mentoring, and opportunities to work on high-impact projects as the service evolves. This role provides excellent scope to shape service delivery and build experience in strategic contract management and service transformation within a large local authority.
You will also have the opportunity to contribute to wider service improvement programmes, helping to design more inclusive, responsive services that meet the needs of our diverse communities. We actively review and adapt how we deliver services to ensure fairness, accessibility, and better outcomes for all residents.
We support flexible working and promote a positive work-life balance, recognising that a diverse and inclusive workforce helps us deliver better services.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.
We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
