Contracts and Governance Coordinator WCC624210

As a Contracts & Governance Coordinator, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Working at the centre of strategic decision making, you'll bring together stakeholders, contract managers and service providers to facilitate strong governance, clear accountability and high standards of performance across the Council's Housing Directorate.

Ensuring that all stakeholders are appropriately represented and consulted in the strategic development of services, you'll work across the full life-cycle of projects to establish partnership working, effective communication and problem solving between the Council and contractors.

Through proactive contract management and performance oversight, you'll ensure compliance, mitigate risk and optimise value for money. Working alongside colleagues, you'll help identify issues and opportunities for development - putting Westminster's residents and communities at the heart of everything you do.

An established professional with knowledge of legislation relevant to social housing, procurement and local governance frameworks, you'll have a strong understanding of housing management, compliance and resident engagement.

Skilled in analysing performance data to monitor and improve contractor performance, you'll have proven experience of managing and delivering projects with a focus on governance, risk management and service improvement.

On a personal level, you'll be a true team player with excellent communication skills. Bringing the ability to build strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the Council and beyond, you'll be organised, proactive and calm under pressure. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative, forward-thinking team putting residents across Westminster first, and to supercharge your career in the process.

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., 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 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 Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

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.