Project Manager City Deal (Capital Projects)

Fife Council
united kingdom
1 month ago
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Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 5 May 2025

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Closing Date: Sunday 4 May 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC9 £44,225.49 to £53,141.91 per annum
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week
Location: Fife House
Supporting Statement
As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site atwww.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Job Details
To undertake management and delivery of an effective programme of Capital Projects as part of the City Deal and Strategic Funding Investment Programmes. Co-ordinating the delivery of the Fife investment projects. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining strategic focus, ongoing alignment and momentum in programme delivery. End to end delivery of a strategic economic growth and investment programme.
Co-ordinating the delivery of the Fife investment projects within the Edinburgh & South East Scotland City region deal, the Tay Cities Deals and other Strategic growth/development Areas.
The role is crucial for creating and maintaining strategic focus, ongoing alignment and momentum in programme delivery with end to end delivery of a strategic economic growth and investment programme.
Co-ordination of the oversight process for the negotiation, deal-making and stakeholder management of UK and Scottish Governments and private sector investment through the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal, the Tay Cities Deal and the Strategic Growth/Development Areas.
Leverage the maximum external investment (including Developer Contributions) into Fife and investigate alternative financing and development models.
Leading and ensuring delivery on budget, to time frames and to plan
Programme initiation, scoping, planning, delivery, testing and hand over to BAU.
Building internal capability and capacity to enable the delivery of more infrastructure and faster.
Supporting the development of economic investment business cases, for high-level initiatives, for approval, funding and prioritisation. Ensures compliance between strategies, service delivery and city deal directives, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
Supports the Programme Manager and Service Manager on the overall investment programme, programme budgets and the delegation to project budgets; on behalf of the SRO, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the City Deal programmes progresses.
Managing a multi-disciplinary team of professional and technical staff, and contractors to deliver a range of capital projects involving the construction of small – medium sized industrial units and the servicing of employment land on sites throughout Fife.
Undertaking land and property transactions relating to strategic town centre, retail and regeneration developments and all transactions relating to Strategic Land Allocations (SLA’s) within the Development Plan and other major development and investment projects, which may have a value of up to £10 - £20m.
The Person
Full membership of related professional body such as IED, RTPI, RCIS, RIAS or CIM
Experience of managing budgets with funding from multiple sources
Project Management, Report Writing and Managing Multi-disciplinary Teams
A driving licence is essential. Ability to travel within Fife will often be more appropriate.
Further Information
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We are currently shaping our future workstyles however, in light of current advice, we are introducing blended home/office working that will include office access days each week with homeworking for the remainder of your working time.
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