About the Role
and our Ideal Candidate
Do you want to play a key role in a team delivering some of London's most exciting affordable housing schemes?
LB Sutton is recruiting a Project Coordinator to support the busy Regeneration, Enabling and Development teams within the Housing Directorate.
This role works across and provides support to all the teams. The role will focus on ensuring the delivery of high quality development and regeneration schemes with particular responsibility for:
1. Managing the day-to-day relationship with the GLA - our key funder. This is mission critical! The GLA fund LB Sutton to the tune of over £m, and making sure this is spent on time, managing audits so we continue to achieve ‘green’ and the quarterly liaison meetings is essential. You will manage the OPS system and help coordinate bids, projects and programmes,
2. Acting as the lead statutory consultee for the LPA to comment on planning applications from a housing development perspective and ensuring that s and nominations commitments are met, secured and monitored effectively,
3. Leading on the day-to-day management of the enabling function, which means effectively supporting our registered provider partners who are seeking to develop affordable housing in the borough.
Other than these key tasks, your role will be to support the project, development and regeneration managers as they deliver schemes and programmes.
You will have experience in the affordable housing sector, be highly organised, computer literate (including the appropriate use of AI), with excellent communication and people skills.
In return we offer a competitive package, a fun and hybrid working environment and the opportunity to be part of a high performing team.
About Us
This role is within the Housing directorate, and supports the delivery of housing capital developments within the Regeneration, Enabling and Development teams.
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:
4. A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade
5. Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave
6. Two volunteering days per year
7. Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)
8. Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks
9. Learning and development portal offering a range of courses
10. Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres
11. Interest free season ticket loans
12. Local Government Pension Scheme
13. Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
14. Electric vehicle leasing scheme
15. Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support