Estates Project Manager

About Cambridgeshire Constabulary

The Constabulary’s  buildings and estate play a critical role and needs to change and adapt to meet the future needs of policing. The Estates and Facilities Team have ongoing complex projects to deliver a smaller, better, greener estate and are now looking for an Estate Project Manager to play a key role in that delivery.

The constabulary employs over 1750 officers, over 950 staff members and 20 PCSO's to cover a resident population of over 700,000. Our vision is to ‘Create a Safer Cambridgeshire’. We pride ourselves in delivering a service with integrity, sensitivity and respect.

It is important to us that we represent our local communities within Cambridgeshire.

As a result of a recent retirement, we are now look for an Estates Project Manager to manage a number projects from high value, complex estates and construction projects to workplace allocations as we transform our estate to meet future policing needs and deliver our Sustainability Strategy.

Everyone at Cambridgeshire Constabulary takes personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. This role will be key to continued delivery of these values.

Why join Cambridgeshire Constabulary?

By joining us as an Estates Project Manager you will receive a vast range of opportunities and benefits. Some of these include:

• Starting pay of £46,359 rising with service up to £52,365 p.a.
• 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Flexible working requests will be considered, including compressed hours and agile working but recognising that estates project by their nature will require regular attendance at site meetings.
• Annual leave allowance of 28 days rising to 30 days on service
• Generous Local government pension scheme
• Opportunities for development and further study
• Blue Light Card offering attractive discounts
• A great Employee Assistance Programme providing free and confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Access to Police sports and social clubs and facilities
• Long Service Awards
• Force Lottery – purchase shares and win prizes
• Cycle 2 Work scheme
• Employee Welfare Fund
• Access to Unison

 

What does the Estates Project Manager role involve?

Your role will be working within the Estates and Facilities team of 18 people. The role forms part of the Estates leadership team with expected corresponding input into delivering the accommodation and estates strategies. The role is pivotal in shaping the provision of the workplace for the future, through the delivery of a number of key complex and  high value projects, including a new Police Station for Cambridge at Milton, a new tactical training facility and workspace planning projects all around Cambridgeshire. Every day is different, whatever your role in policing, so here’s an overview of your day-to-day responsibilities:

1. The Project Manager will set the Terms of Reference for project related activity and will use their strong leadership and management skills to initiate and develop business cases; progress and monitor (and if necessary, pause) the progress of all constituent projects and undertake post project evaluation.
2. To manage the relationships and/or expectations of key stakeholders, which will include Association of Chief Police Officers level officers, Heads of Department, as well as senior staff, cost managers and project managers from external stakeholders and suppliers.
3. Apply skills and experience to establish and build trust, credibility, and respect amongst a diverse range of stakeholders. You will intuitively flex your style to suit the audience you are engaging with and/or communicating to.
4. Estates projects and programmes may cut across all areas of business within the Constabulary and collaborated Forces, with individual project values up to £38 million. The Project Manager will have autonomy to implement agreed strategies; applying adaptive, evaluative judgement in the management of the project throughout its lifecycle; defining dependencies and interfaces between identified projects within the project itself and projects and programmes which sit outside of it
5. The Project Manager will maintain responsibility for the identification and management of all project level risks and issues and will define, initiate and monitor suitable mitigations and interventions.
6. Focusing on the wider objectives of each project, the Project Manager will build, manage, coach and motivate the project team, developing effective working relationships; and create a sense of community amongst individual project teams to ensure successful delivery of projects.
7. Evaluate progress and success measures such as time, cost, quality and safety.
8. High value projects demand financial awareness and being adept in both capital and revenue budget management and the ability to present financial project reports at Board level is a requirement.
9. The Estates and Facilities team are a small but collaborative team but with a “Can Do” ethos, the Project Manager will be expected to be hands on and play an active role in supporting and developing team members.

 

Are you our next Estates Project Manager?

It is important to us that your values and attitude align with ours. Whether officer or staff, we are serving the public, and the policing Competency and Values Framework underpins everything we do. We are also looking for you to:

• Be proactive and use your initiative to resolve project challenges.
• Be able to flex between attention to detail on project tasks and the bigger picture on overall project delivery.
• Take a solution-focused approach.
• Be collaborative and a team player, utilising the strengths of individuals to bring together highly effective teams that can make a positive difference to our estate.

To reach the hiring manager contact Jackie Golby, Strategic Director of Estates via email: Jackie.Golby@cambs.police.uk

All applicants are required to have a full UK driving License.

Cambridgeshire Constabulary celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is valued and respected. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented or minority groups.

Additional Information 

All internal applicants must have successfully completed their probationary period to apply for this role. 

Internal applicants within Cambridgeshire Constabulary, should upload either a CV or provide relevant skills, experiences and qualifications on Word/PDF document.  

This vacancy is live to those at risk of redundancy and will remain open to redeployees until the conditional offer stage throughout the recruitment process. Redeployees will take priority over other applicants at any point during the recruitment process up until conditional offer. If a redeployee is successful and accepts an offer, they will remain on their home force’s terms and conditions. 

As a Disability Confident leader, we take personal responsibility to help create an inclusive workplace, where police officers and staff respect one another, feel valued for their differences and can be themselves. We are committed to providing workplace adjustments, wherever needed so everyone feels welcome and can flourish. If you have a disability and you meet the minimum criteria for the position you are applying for, you will be entitled to an interview under the ‘Offer an Interview Scheme’. 

It is recommended that you download and store a copy of the role profile as this will no longer be available once the advert has closed. 

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