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Business Operations Officer known internally as a "Project Support Officer"
Fixed Term until July 2025
Beeston, Nottingham: £31,380 /Faringdon, London: £34,772
About Us: Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK's leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England.
About the role
It is an exciting and busy time of change within MTVH. As part of the
Strategy, Performance and Projects Team within Corporate Services, you?ll support Project Teams to co-ordinate and deliver a range of different projects on our five-year Corporate Plan. This is a fixed-term role until July 2025 ? for internal candidates this is offered as a secondment opportunity.
Working with our team of Project Managers, you?ll play a key role in bringing positive change to the business by helping ensure projects are adequately planned and resourced. Day-to-day, you?ll have responsibility for a wide variety of activities such as communicating with stakeholders, scheduling and attending workshops, keeping project documentation up-to-date and organised and generally keeping projects running smoothly.
You?ll work on a variety of projects spanning multiple directorates and teams across MTVH, with opportunities to learn and develop skills in project planning, requirements gathering, data analysis, risk management, stakeholder engagement, change management and more.
You?ll also support our team of Business Analysts and contribute to the development both our Project Management and Business Analysis frameworks.
This role is ideal for someone with experience in a business support role looking to gain experience of project delivery and business change.
Key dates: Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 10th February 2025
**Internal candidates: if you are interested in this role as a Secondment, please seek the approval of your line manager before submitting your application **
What you'll need to succeed
Previous relevant work experience in a support role providing a service to a team or customers
Great communication and interpersonal skills
Strong organisation, prioritisation and time-management skills
Creative-thinking and problem-solving skills
Experience with Microsoft Office applications including Excel and SharePoint
An interest in project management and delivery
A passion for delivering positive change
Please note:-we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What?s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment
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