Accommodation Project Manager

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO8
Salary: £63,966 - £67,575 per annum
Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract (2 Years)
Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 9th November 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 17th November 2025



About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work - the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We'll be celebrating all this and more as the "rebel borough" when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey's people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.



About the Role

As Accommodation Project Manager you will take lead responsibility for the Council's Accommodation Strategy programme by planning at a strategic level, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of office relocations and refurbishments including ensuring vacant possession of all Station Road office buildings and relocation of existing services to alternative buildings ensuring that all Accommodation Strategy projects are effectively managed, ensuring they deliver on-time, to budget and to a high quality.
In this exciting and challenging role you need to demonstrate that they can operate effectively on different levels including operational and strategic and be able to present accommodation options clearly and concisely to various stakeholders including staff, managers and the Senior Leadership team.
You will act as single point of contact to channel the multi-facetted Civic Centre project to ensure complete alignment between the Accommodation Team, multiple Project teams, New Ways of Working Group, move champions and stakeholders.
For this role you will require excellent communication and Project Management experience and will need to be able to demonstrate that you have experience of using CAD and/or other design software programmes.
You will manage the Accommodation team to ensure effective stakeholder engagement, successful planning, implementation, and delivery of various workstreams essential for strategic asset and accommodation management including the Civic Centre Project and Station Road buildings to ensure vacant possession ensuring that the Accommodation Strategy is updated to reflect changes in the Councils future direction of travel.



About the Team

In this role you will be responsible for managing two Accommodation Assistant Project Managers.
You will lead and support the team to enable the successful delivery of the Council's change and transformation corporate programmes via the project management of office relocations, small refurbishments, property vacations, furniture reuse/provision/disposal projects, and general property moves, as part of the Accommodation Strategy that also includes the Council's property review and asset rationalisation projects.
Due to the nature of the teams roles the Assistant Project Managers are in the office the majority of the week and sometimes undertake office moves out of normal working hours. In this role there would be an expectation for the Accommodation Project Manager to be in the office at least 3 days a week and occasionally out of normal working hours.



About You

Knowledge and Experience
You will have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate a wealth of experience in the successful delivery of office move projects working effectively across a range of stakeholders to provide customer focused services including the commissioning and managing of consultants and construction contractors, ensuring that works are delivered effectively.
For this role:

• Ideally you will need to be educated to degree level in a project management related field (or three years relevant experience).
• Ideally you will need to have excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant project management tools and Prince2 methodology.
• You will need to have experience of developing and agreeing the scope, budget and programme prior to accommodation moves and be able to demonstrate good IT skills including CAD software.
• You will have the ability to work positively with a variety of different stakeholders at all levels including, senior leaderships, head teachers, service users, partners and businesses to deliver complex services, policies and projects, demonstrating sound judgement and an in depth understanding of Health and Safety policy and legislation in relation to building management and construction matters.
• You will need to have experience in influencing and negotiating with various stakeholders providing support and persuasion on accommodation proposals at various stages including scoping, planning various different options for alternative locations that may in some instances be contentious and work with stakeholders to enable a mutually beneficial solution.
• You will have experience of developing briefs, service specifications and scoping services in conjunction with stakeholders and be able to demonstrate experience of managing budgets, spend and savings through effective budgetary management and adherence to budget governance principles.
• You will have staff management experience and be able to demonstrate successful leadership skills and the ability to make things happen.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact [email protected]

Attachments

• JE355E Accommodation Project Manager_14.10.25_v3_accs.pdf