Capital Projects Officer

About The Role

North Northamptonshire is currently on an exciting journey to transform its buildings and infrastructure and as part of this, we are looking for a Project Officer to join our Capital Projects team.

As part of the capital projects team you will work to define, develop and deliver projects that range from £25k to £10M, many of which can be considered complex projects due to the variety of internal and external stakeholders – funders, services, end users, clients and developers.

You will manage external consultant design teams and contractor delivery teams, and have responsibility for the delivery of multiple projects at one time across a variety of areas including education, leisure, assets, communities and children’s services, ensuring objectives are delivered and all benefits are realised with full governance observed.

You will need experience working with a range of people internally and externally to deliver a project or initiative. Alongside this you will also need good organisation, literacy, numeracy and communication skills.

Projects will be based across North Northamptonshire and you will need to attend site meetings or meetings in the office on an average of 2 days a week. A DBS check is required.

If you would like more information about this role or are interested in applying, please contact Dylan Smith at dylan

• Project Management. Delivery of a suite of projects from brief through design and delivery. Procuring contractors, initiating, planning, executing, managing and closing the project to achieve specific targets to the agreed timescales.
• Stakeholder Management. Develop effective relationships with stakeholders and partners, both internal and external to the council, to ensure that the council’s programme of capital projects are delivered to specification, on time and within budget.
• Governance. Work within the legal requirements, policies, financial procedures, governance, procurement, framework rules and adhere to the recommended practice to protect the council from risk. Ensure that all members of the project team are fully conversant with those parameters and that approvals are sought at the required steps in the process.
• Risk & Issue Management. Develop and manage the project risk and issues registers, regularly monitoring and updating these to ensure the risks are managed.
• Finance. Provide monthly monitoring and forecasting, manage the accounting process from setting up the supplier to receipting invoices and monitoring payments to suppliers, including value engineering where there are budget constraints or issues impacting the budget.
• Procurement. Responsibility for the end‑to‑end process of procurement for the project including tendering, selection and awarding of the contract for specialist roles and the principal contractor.
• Leadership. Motivate, manage and set parameters on the project such as time, cost and quality roles and responsibilities within the project team.
• Reporting. Report to the necessary project boards and stakeholders, providing advice on required solutions to issues that have arisen during a project. Report accurate, up‑to‑date information to the relevant parties as and when required.
• Communication. Develop a communication plan to ensure effective communication with all stakeholders and the project team is maintained as set out throughout the project, establishing the methods of communication based on the receiver’s requirements.

The successful candidate will be agile and flexible enough to adapt, ensuring the project has flexibility within its parameters to allow for change should the strategy, regulations or outcome require change during the delivery of the project.

The post will be remote working, however there is a requirement to attend the site, meetings and team meetings in person as needed, anticipated on average 2 days a week.

You will have good numeracy and literacy and ideally a relevant project management qualification or equivalent alongside knowledge and experience of managing projects.

Knowledge and experience of local authorities is key, particularly to provide knowledge of elements such as governance,…