Senior Contracts Officer

The Responsive Repairs team within the Operations Directorate has a vacancy for a Senior Contracts Officer.

The responsive repairs team manage and oversee the repairs function to the Council’s housing stock and play a vital role in ensuring assets are maintained and that customers receive a quality repairs service.

Your next role

Utilising skills and experience gained within a similar position, you will report to the Repairs Contract Manager for the Operations service area and be responsible for assisting with the management of a Repairs Framework. You will be responsible for ensuring compliance, monitoring performance and managing relationships with contractors and stakeholders. In addition, you will monitor the performance of the team ensuring good contract administration is practiced and provide guidance and support on contractual matters where required. 

Familiarity of the NHF Schedule of Rates will be advantageous. This is a busy operational service focussed environment. A high level of personal organisation, target focus and attention to detail is required with an ability to complete reports and other tasks within agreed timelines.

This role demands experience of contract management, preferably within the public sector in the key areas highlighted above together with the ability to collaborate across various stakeholders, partners and suppliers/contractors to ensure that our contracts continue to meet our budgets, risk management processes, statutory responsibilities, key performance indicators, social value initiatives and wider council priorities.

Knowledge and familiarity with the Public Contract Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 will be necessary given there are contractual obligations within the new 2023 act that will require compliance.

For more detailed information please refer to the job profile and in particular the knowledge and experience section prior to submitting an application.

The ability to travel throughout the Borough will be required.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

Your next package

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details and our new Swindon Plan

Your next steps

Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity further please contact Shakira West-Moreland, Repairs Manager, email  SWestmoreland@swindon.gov.uk

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion.

If you are experiencing difficulties in submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk