Do you enjoy coordinating meetings, producing high-quality minutes, and ensuring actions are followed through to completion?
Are you skilled at managing multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining exceptional attention to detail?
Do you have experience using tools such as Excel, SharePoint, and Outlook to track actions, records, and key deadlines?
Can you build positive relationships with a range of stakeholders and ensure effective communication across teams?
If you answered "yes", we'd love to hear from you. Join our Housing Investment & Asset Management team as a Project Support Officer and play a key role in supporting contract governance, performance management, and service improvement activities that make a real difference to residents across Brighton & Hove.
Interviews to be held: Between 3rd and 14th August 2026.
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Sharon Bell, Project Manager, Business & Performance Team, by email
[email protected]
About the role
To provide administrative and coordination support to the Performance Management Team and wider Housing Investment & Asset Management service. The role ensures effective documentation, tracking, and communication of contractual and operational activities, enabling strategic focus and continuous improvement across contract governance and project delivery.
What you will do:
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Coordinate and document Core Group Meetings (CGMs), including preparation of agendas, minutes, and action logs, ensuring outputs are timely, accurate, and accessible.
- Monitor shared inboxes and track timebound contractual obligations, procurement triggers, and action points using structured templates and systems.
- Maintain and update the contract pipeline and obligations matrix, escalating risks or delays to relevant officers.
- Support Contract Managers and Project Managers by maintaining documentation, scheduling meetings, and tracking progress against milestones.
- Ensure consistent filing and retrieval of compliance documentation, including health & safety records, audit trails, and procurement evidence.
- Liaise with internal teams (Finance, Legal, Compliance) to ensure timely communication of contractual events and obligations.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of performance tracking tools and templates, ensuring data accuracy and usability.
- Provide administrative support for working groups and service improvement initiatives, including meeting coordination and documentation.
- Assist in the onboarding and induction of new contractors by preparing documentation and coordinating logistics.
- Promote inclusive and accessible communication practices in all documentation and stakeholder engagement.
- Support the Programme Manager and Performance Officers in delivering service plan objectives and continuous improvement activities.
What you will bring:
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The ability to produce clear, inclusive, and accessible documentation.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- The ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Intermediate IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint.
- The ability to communicate effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Be able to work by yourself and as part of a Team, working together to ensure we reach our goals.
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.
