Job Details:

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal. 

 

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience. 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 3 May 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE.

 

Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work.

 

Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles.  

 

Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.

 

More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.

 

Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works. 

The Role:

As Housing Investment Programme Manager, you too can make a powerful contribution. You’ll be joining the Council’s Housing Directorate, which delivers essential services to residents, managing a diverse portfolio of over 21,000 homes. You’ll play a pivotal role in the future of those homes – by crafting a risk-based 5-year programme and a long‑term 30‑year pipeline worth around £100m. Your focus will be on maximising safety, value for money and the long‑term performance of the homes within the available Housing Revenue Account budget.

 

You’ll ensure that the Housing Investment Programme is data-driven, responsive, prioritised and that it aligns with Council strategic objectives. While being conscious of resident needs, sustainability targets, and value for money.

 

You will establish and run a Programme Management Office (PMO) with programme controls integrated finance and performance reporting, risk and issue management and change control, to drive on-time, on-budget, quality delivery, with responsive resequencing from live data. From there, you’ll lead a PMO function for projects: allocating tasks, setting standards, and monitoring the work of project managers and delivery teams, ensuring quality and consistency. You will direct project managers in how to apply Programme change control processes, offering guidance and checking that they’re meeting agreed standards.

 

It’ll be your responsibility to establish and embed a Project Delivery lifecycle that drives best practice in financial and project management, reducing delays and variations. You’ll ensure that capital risks are proactively managed, escalated, and mitigated through governance. To help us improve, you’ll undertake regular reviews, check live data, offer corrective direction and reallocate tasks when necessary.

 

Working with Finance and other teams, you’ll implement an integrated financial and performance reporting approach. Seeking to enable forecasting, cash flow, whole-life costing and affordability checks. From Finance to HR to procurement, you’ll strengthen programme management capability and encourage all to work closely for the same aims.

 

Senior stakeholders will look to you for reports on programme performance. You’ll be accountable and offer authoritative advice. Plus, you’ll lead the organisation and management of Capital Programme Governance meetings and gateways, as well as representing the Council externally.

 

We’re a forward-thinking, dynamic place to work. And as this is a newly created role, you’ll have the opportunity to shape it into your own.  

 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To be suited to the role, you’ll have led, set up and implemented a construction/capital delivery focused project and programme management function. This is complemented by significant experience working with and advising teams on developing project documentation.

 

With good analytical skills, you’re experienced at reviewing and condensing large, complex volumes of information and distilling risks, issues and next steps. Following a project’s completion, you’ve led teams to identify key areas of improvement.

 

A strong working knowledge of procurement and contract management is key. As is familiarity with public sector finance management, capital delivery and property.

 

You’ll be comfortable working with senior stakeholders, presenting, writing up briefs and reports for them. When you’re concerned, you have the confidence to question decisions. Equally, you’re able to engage residents and staff to gain buy-in for new processes and procedures.

 

As a leader, you’ve guided others on decision-making that acknowledges and mitigates risks. You’re able to create a learning culture and mentor staff to deliver change management. With a strong commitment to teamwork, you want to achieve results together. At the same time, you’re content working autonomously and have strong organisational skills.  

 

You have excellent IT skills in MS Office, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, IT software packages including the set up and maintenance of MS Project.  

 

We’d like to see a qualification in project or programme management, as well as a construction related certificate or diploma. Equivalent experience also works for us. 

 

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

 

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

 

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

 

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

 

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

 

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

 

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.