Are you passionate about making a difference in the education sector? Join our dynamic and friendly Entrust team in Stafford as a Programmes Manager! In this pivotal role, you’ll work closely with our clients and the internal Entrust surveying team to ensure our projects are delivered on time and within budget.

As a Programmes Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering essential property development and repairs for schools across the county. Your expertise will help create safe and inspiring learning environments for students and staff alike.

We offer a supportive and knowledgeable team environment, opportunities to work on impactful projects that benefit local schools, and a chance to develop your skills and advance your career in project management.

Your key responsibilities will include liaising with clients to understand their needs and expectations, coordinating with the surveying team to ensure project milestones are met, and managing budgets and timelines to deliver successful outcomes.
Job title:
PMO Coordinator
Job Description:
What you’ll be doing:

• Assist in the control of expenditure on maintenance programmes/budgets and the review of monitoring systems, analysing correspondence, reports, and any other incoming data to formulate and maintain effective budgetary control for the Maintenance Team.
  
• Provide a range of administrative support, i.e., day to day office management, initiation and co-ordination of responses to client and contractor issues, organisation, minuting of meetings, collation of information/drafting of reports arising from meetings with Contractors/Clients. Active involvement in monitoring and review meetings
  
• Effective use of information technology including development of systems and programmes for report production, records for maintenance, minor capital projects and cost expenditure information.
  
• Provide timely information, including the receipt, allocation and monitoring of planned and reactive maintenance programmes, Capital and Minor Improvement Programmes and Projects.
  
• Preparation of surveyor workload/programme forecasting figures. Liaising with Building/Engineering Surveyors, Clients and contractors to ensure delivery of maintenance/minor capital schemes.
  
• Arrange surveyor call out rota for non-school emergency maintenance.
  
• Production of official orders on SAP, specifications, tenders, letters and reports for the Maintenance Consultancy.
  
• Passing of invoices to accounts for payment.
  

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience monitoring and controlling of programmes / project budgets.
  
• High standard of written and oral communication skills
  
• A proficient level of Excel skills
  
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
  
• High standard of planning and organization skills
  
• The ability to meet deadlines, to show initiative, and handle competing demands
  
• A keen interest and commitment of IT within the role
  
• Working with Microsoft Office software including Excel
  
• Drafting reports and correspondence
  
• Working under own initiative on project work.
  
• To be well organized and efficient
  

About Entrust

Entrust is a joint venture company between Capita and Staffordshire County Council and has supported educational establishments across England to improve outcomes since 2013. ‘Excellence in education’ is the heart of our business. Our passion is inspiring futures and improving outcomes for children, young people and adults. We work in partnership with schools, academy trusts and Local Authorities to provide specialist expertise, ensuring every child and young person;

• receives a good education;
  
• is in a safe and healthy environment;
  
• and is given expert guidance to realise their full potential.
  

We also work with clients across a range of other sectors including central
government, health, and the private sector. Our achievements are underpinned by our vision ‘to inspire futures’ by being Open , Ingenious , Collaborative and Effective . By building on our reputation for excellence and delivering what we promise, we want to help make every school in England a good school, ensuring every child and young person gets the education they deserve.

What’s in it for you?

• A salary of £30,000
  
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
  
• Home based role with quarterly travel to our Stafford office (fully expensed)
  
• company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
  
• voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
  
• the opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
  
• access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
  

What we hope you’ll do next:
Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.

As part of our commitment to diversity, we recognise that we currently have lower numbers of female and ethnic minority staff. We therefore actively encourage applicants who are female and/or belong to an ethnic minority to apply for this role.'

Location:
Stafford,
United Kingdom
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent