Senior Programme Manager WCC622023

Job Details:

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 24 months
Closing date: 2 October 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE


Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work.


Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles.


Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.


More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.


Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.

The Role:

As the Senior Programme Manager working in Housing and Commercial Partnerships you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. We’ve established an ambitious programme of buying new homes for Temporary Accommodation, and have multi-year multimillion pound acquisition programme to help us achieve our goals. You’ll be working at the heart of the team, helping to shape, communicate, govern and co-ordinate delivery while ensuring we align closely with the council’s Fairer Westminster strategy and Fairer Housing plan.

Your key tasks will involve the onboarding and enabling the refurbishment of new homes, and the legal and financial compliance which ensures their productivity as good quality Temporary Accommodation. You’ll use a range of programme management tools and processes as you work to ensure all prospective homes are surveyed correctly, and capital works requirements and repairing obligations are understood and migrated into our systems. We’ll also expect you to see that properties are insured correctly and made ready for their new occupants in a timely manner.

This role will involve managing relationships with people who are in potentially vulnerable and challenging situations – with this in mind you’ll lead by example as you model and embed our values and behaviours, and help to develop our reputation as a successful council delivering great value for its residents. When it comes to using your leadership skills, you’ll be line managing a dedicated team, so we’ll expect you to inspire the creation of a professional and high performing culture, set targets and provide motivating support as you develop your colleagues’ knowledge and expertise.

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About You:

With well developed experience of the housing sector and housing project management, you should have good knowledge of procurement and housing legislation, policy and processes, and a successful record of delivering complex projects. Ready to assess and manage any risks you identify, you’ll be capable of managing budgets, developing forecasts and reporting/governance systems, processes and documentation, and have proven experience of change management.

An inspirational and motivating leader, manager and mentor, your excellent social skills will allow you to develop positive partnerships and productive working relationships with senior managers, Members, communities and the organisations and agencies we work with. It’s also vital that you have a strong focus on delivery, the skills to prioritise and manage a number of different projects at the same time, and the ability to respond quickly to changing demands.

When it comes to formal credentials, we’ll look for a Project Manager qualification at Practitioner level or its equivalent, and evidence of continual professional, managerial and personal development. A confident user of IT, with a particular emphasis on Orchard, MRI and the MS Office suite of software, you’ll be a creative and strategic thinker with excellent analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills. Capable of drawing broad insights from complex sets of data and technical information, you should also be ready to conduct and co-ordinate research into systems and process issues.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. 


At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit 


As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.


The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.