Interim Assistant Contracts Manager - up to 6 months

What we need you to do:

You will provide a proactive approach to contract management and assist the operational technical teams in the delivery of multiple planned and responsive repairs programmes, and minor scale construction-related projects through effective contract management processes.

You will work closely with contractors and suppliers to develop relationships, and develop and maintain a range of contract management processes particularly within an empty homes and responsive repairs setting. You will be assisting the Repairs Manager in producing monthly repair and empty homes cash flow forecasts and expenditure reports to ensure delivery against approved budgets.

On-call rota

Being involved in a rota system (usually one week in every nine) to provide ad hoc evening and weekend phone support for contractors and tenants when emergency situations arise. This may also require occasional on-site attendance of emergency work, e.g. major fires, floods etc. acting on our behalf. You may also be required to act as support to other on-call staff where higher-level management input is needed or where escalation is required.

How to apply

Have a read through the job description and if you’re excited about this opportunity take a look at our guidance notes and complete the application form and email it to Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk.

If you’d like to have a conversation about the role, please contact Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk to arrange a chat.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a significant number of suitable applications so please submit your application early.

35-hour week pilot

Since June 2024 we have been piloting a change to our normal full-time, 37-hour 5-day week. Over 12 months we are trialling a shorter 35-hour week (for the same pay as before) where staff work a full day Monday to Thursday, and finish the working week at 1pm every Friday. It’s just a pilot at this stage while we evaluate its impact on our staff, our tenants, and the service we provide, but if successful we will consider a permanent move to this way of working in 2025.