Stevenage Borough Council

About The Role Are you looking to take on a pivotal role in shaping the future of property services within our Borough Council? We're seeking a dynamic Head of Building Services to lead the strategic management and operational delivery of our commercial property portfolio. This role requires a professional with a robust background in Building Surveying, a strategic outlook, and outstanding leadership skills. As the Head of Building Services, you'll oversee a team of professionals responsible for the effective management, maintenance, and development of our Council's commercial properties. Your focus will be on ensuring compliance with regulations and delivering excellent services to both internal and external stakeholders ensuring the Council retains an affordable, effective and well managed estate. About You Are you up for the challenge? The successful candidate for this role will be the council's go-to specialist advisor, responsible person, and budget manager in all matters relating to property services. The successful candidate will have as a minimum: • Degree level qualification in Building Surveying or CIOB Building • Membership of the related professional institute RIBA, RICS or CIOB • Knowledge of compliance and health and safety in procurement and construction. • Experience in the preparation of drawings, specifications, Bills of Quantities, schedules of rates, types of agreements, and tendering contracts. • Knowledge of building legislation including Planning, Building Regulations, CDM, Party Wall Act as well as extensive knowledge of Health and Safety legislation • IT proficiency including CAD Our Benefits • Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants • Flexible working: available upon request, subject to operational requirements. • Part time and Job share opportunities - all our full-time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated. • A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave. • 25 days holiday rising to 31 days (depending on Local Government service) • Free parking • An extensive range of learning and development opportunities • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues • Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport • Cycle to Work scheme • Stevenage Credit Union: secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans. • Employee Discounts: via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) • Discounted Health and Fitness membership • Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union. For a full job description, please visit our careers site

About The Role To assist in leading the continuous development and delivery of Stevenage Borough Council s Planning and Regulatory Service technical support team and ensure that it provides the full range of statutory and non-statutory and planning and regulatory processing services in line with the Service objectives, including optimising efficiency and service quality outcomes to all users. As the Assistant Technical Support Manager, you will take a lead role along with the Technical Support Manager in the implementation of continuous improvement to the service in order to support the planning and regulatory service aspirations as a centre of excellence. You will support and lead the optimisation of workflows, service design processes to provide customer centric outcomes as well as respond to the needs of the business to deliver a high-quality service to stakeholders by proactive analysis of data and constant iteration of processes to maximise delivery. You will also assist in leading and developing individual technical support officers to provide cost effective and efficient administrative support, provide support to the leadership team, all service specific procurement exercises, develop performance metrics, monitor and provide management reports to guide the team and service performance and ensure the continuous evaluation of performance metrics. About You You will need to have a genuine interest in the planning and regulatory environment and an interesting in ensuring our community in Stevenage thrives. Our ideal person will have experience working within a planning and / or regulatory service, in a busy customer focused area and have fantastic communication skills as you will engage with the public and ensure the service aligns with our corporate standards. Plus, you will assist in leading in the delivery of process improvements, enhanced communication strategies and training programs. Our Benefits • Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants • Flexible working: available upon request, subject to operational requirements. • Part time and Job share opportunism - all our full-time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated. • A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave. • 25 days holiday rising to 31 days (depending on Local Government service) • An extensive range of learning and development opportunities • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues • Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport • Cycle to Work scheme • Stevenage Credit Union: secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans. • Employee Discounts: via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) • Discounted Health and Fitness membership • Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union. For a full job description, please visit our careers page

This is an opportunity to have a role within a finance team with huge variety, working across a number of different areas of finance at a council with some unbelievable projects coming up. For instance, the exciting SG1 project is a new development to include thousands of new homes, a 39,000 sq. retail and commercial space as well as large swaths of pedestrian and landscape areas. Notwithstanding the town is home to three international, sector-leading organisations in Airbus, MBDA and GSK. Don t be surprised when you see on the news that Mars rovers, space satellites and more are designed and built there! We are looking for a proactive professional report to the Head of Technical and manage an Accountant. You will play a critical role as the senior capital and treasury accountant, responsible for providing lead expert advice, managing, maintaining, and reporting on the council s capital and treasury strategy. Key tasks include: • Lead on all Capital and Treasury functions for the council s general fund (GF) and housing revenue accounts (HRA) • Providing technical advice, guidance training and support to service managers to enable delivery of the councils approved capital programme. • Research financial implications in order to support decision making, including financing changes, taxation, and leasing issues. • Play a lead role in quarterly capital budget monitoring in liaison with the service managers challenging forecasts where appropriate. • Maintaining and advising on the strategy for the medium term financial plan including, revenue costs of decisions, borrowing and prudential code implications. • Lead on producing the council s Treasury Management Strategy and treasury reporting. • Manage the councils working capital requirements, ensuring cash forecasting is current and fit for purpose, and treasury investments and borrowing are manged and reported. The successful candidate will have • CCAB Qualification • Have a comprehensive in-depth knowledge of financial processes and procedures in a Local Authority or similar organisation • Have knowledge of the latest issues affecting local government • Have a proven track record of preparing capital, and asset information for statutory accounts and maintaining and reconciling fixed asset registers. • Are an experienced finance business partner • Ambitious to progress career within a Local Authority Our Benefits • Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants • Flexible working: available upon request, subject to operational requirements. • Part time and Job share opportunities - all our full-time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated. • A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave. • 25 days holiday rising to 31 days (depending on Local Government service) • An extensive range of learning and development opportunities • Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues • Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport • Cycle to Work scheme • Stevenage Credit Union: secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans. • Employee Discounts: via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) • Discounted Health and Fitness membership • Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union. For a full job description, please visit our careers site