Project Support Assistant

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our Capital Works team as a Project Support Assistant. You will be involved in assisting the Project Manager and Project Leaders to help manage the planning and coordination of our Capital Works programmes.

The ideal candidate will have some knowledge of project planning and will be a strong self-motivated individual to help support the delivery of the projects. We need you to be awesome with your organisation and have superb IT skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel and Word. Part of this exciting role is to help arrange and attend project meetings and also produce comprehensive minutes of the meetings, any experience of this would be really beneficial. You will help coordinate data to ensure timely completion of projects and accurate recording across all systems, including the collection of compliance certificates where required.

We need you to be experienced in working to deadlines and not to be phased by service pressures, as you will be working in a front line customer service environment, providing effective communication with all key stakeholders to provide an excellent and well informed customer journey. Another part of the role is to provide project support for subcontract works including contractor liaising, placing/amending purchase orders, and goods receipting purchase orders for payment. If you think you have the experience, we'd love to hear from you!

Our story began in 2018 and we'd like you to be part of our future. With over 15,000 homes, 30,000 customers and 750 colleagues, we're changing lives every day. Our mission is simple; to provide homes customers want, services they value, delivered by people who care. We want to help our customers and communities to succeed and thrive. Considerate, collaborative, ambitious and accountable - that's just our way of life.

Our offices are more than just the space we work in. We encourage inspiration, creativity and productivity in a relaxed and comfortable environment. We're looking for people who are travelling in the same direction when it comes to the way we work, live our values and deliver our services. Our reward and recognition offer is pretty impressive too!

We have ambitious plans for further growth and impact, and we need the right people to take this leap with us. It may be challenging at times, but you can be assured that it is going to be rewarding and inspiring. After all, we are changing lives, every day, in all that we do.

Our values and extremely important to us and we want all our colleagues to really live our values every day, we are looking for candidates who show they have the skills to do the role and are aligned with our values.

At Beyond Housing, we are committed to ensuring that all applicants are treated fairly throughout our recruitment and selection processes and are not discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Why choose us?

The team here at Beyond Housing genuinely care about the work we do to transform the lives of our customers. We think this is a pretty big reason to love your career at Beyond Housing, and that's why our benefits package shows Beyond Housing genuinely cares about its teams too.

Our people are our best asset, so we want to make sure your wellbeing is the best it can be. Our responsibilities as an employer extend beyond the workplace, we want to make sure we can help and support you when you need it most.

So here goes:

• Flexible working patterns to suit your commitments


• Generous holiday entitlement


• Impressive salaries with incremental pay increases for most colleagues


• Commitment to paying the Real Living Wage for our staff


• Competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions


• Life assurance to look after your loved ones


• Health plan


• A much needed caffeine boost with free tea and coffee (and cordial for when you're feeling parched)


• Cycle to work scheme (if you've got the legs for it)


• Annual cost of living pay rise


• Agile working - to give you that positive work life balance.


• Rather not work the normal 9 - 5? If you have a working pattern that you would prefer, please discuss this with us and we might be able to support.