Project Administrator

Thriving Investments is a socially conscious fund manager focused on the living sector. We invest across a range of housing tenures that deliver market returns to investors alongside meaningful social impact. We currently manage over 5,300 homes representing £1.1bn of assets under management, with ambitious plans to grow to £5bn+ through the launch of new funds and the expansion of existing portfolios.  

Thriving Investments is growing our affordable housing activity, including building new partnerships across the sector. This role will involve providing high-quality administrative and project support to help support that growth, working closely with colleagues across Thriving Investments, our parent organisation, Places for People, and with external stakeholders.

More about your role

As a Project Administrator, you'll provide high-quality administrative and project support across a range of workstreams, stakeholders and partner organisations. You'll play a key role in ensuring projects, meetings and governance activities run smoothly by coordinating diaries, managing meeting logistics, maintaining action trackers and supporting the delivery of project priorities.

Working closely with senior leaders, external partners and internal teams, you'll prepare agendas and meeting papers, take accurate minutes, track actions and support timely decision-making. You'll also coordinate events, workshops and face-to-face meetings, manage project documentation and support approval processes.

In addition, you will help prepare briefings, reports and presentations and help ensure there is clear communication on project progress and priorities across the housing associations involved and with internal senior stakeholders. The work on the project is varied and there will be opportunities for you to contribute to wider workstreams, including on the policies and organisational design of the organisation we are setting up.

You'll continually look for opportunities to improve processes and maximise the use of Microsoft 365 tools and AI to support collaboration and effective project delivery.

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience providing administration, project coordination or project support within a busy, complex and fast-paced organisation.

• Experience coordinating multiple meetings, actions, deadlines and competing priorities simultaneously.

• Experience preparing agendas, meeting packs, minutes and action trackers, with responsibility for monitoring follow-up actions.

• Experience supporting senior stakeholders, partners or leadership teams through effective administration and meeting coordination.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience working within the housing, property, real estate or wider built environment sector.

• Demonstrable experience leveraging AI and emerging technologies to enhance business processes, drive efficiencies and support data-informed decision making .

Please note: If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to shortlist candidates against the desirable criteria listed above.

More about you

You'll be an organised and proactive administrator with experience supporting projects, programmes or busy operational teams. You'll be comfortable managing multiple priorities, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring actions are completed to agreed deadlines.

You'll have excellent attention to detail and be confident producing professional documentation, maintaining accurate records and supporting meetings from planning through to follow-up. Experience working with senior stakeholders and building positive working relationships will help you succeed in this role.

Most importantly, you'll enjoy working collaboratively, taking ownership of your workload and finding practical solutions that contribute to successful project outcomes.

Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell days
• Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs, with private GP and health support services available
• Comprehensive wellbeing support including counselling, flu jabs, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and access to our Wellbeing Hub, supporting your mental, physical and financial wellbeing
• Access to Our Place Rewards, offering discounts and savings on groceries, travel, shopping, home products and other lifestyle purchases
• Ongoing training, professional qualifications, internal development programmes and career progression opportunities
• Recognition programmes including Star Awards and Colleague Awards, celebrating achievements and recognising great work
• Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
• Free membership to Places Gyms

Advert closing note: We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities. As part of our commitment to finding the right person for the role, if we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early and shortlist against the desirable criteria.

What's next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please email the recruitment team [email protected]

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. 

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on [email protected] .

Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.

If you are using a mobile device such as an iPad then ensure your CV is stored in the cloud, we currently support Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.

W e understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

If you are a recruitment agency please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.

We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.

By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities