Programme Coordinator WCC621849

Job Details:

Salary range: £33,291 - £36,345 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary until 23 May 2026
Closing date: 20 August 2025 
Interview date: Week Commencing 25 August 2025 

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Housing and Commercial Partnerships in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.

Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it’s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today – a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.

Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.

The Role:

As a Programme Coordinator in our Major Works team – part of the Housing and Commercial Partnership Service – you’ll join us on a 12 month contract to support the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of large-scale capital and refurbishment projects. Working on both complex projects and heath and safety upgrades to high rise buildings, you’ll drive continuous improvements, managing service provider meetings in response to changing priorities, and identifying insights, gaps and shortcomings in available data where possible.

Acting as a key point of contact for internal and external departments, contractors and stakeholders, you’ll coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, and track actions for project delivery teams. You’ll work at the heart of the team, assisting the Head of Major Works in the coordination and monitoring of the service. This is a varied and dynamic role. As such, your day-to-day might include maintaining and updating project documentation, schedules and risk logs, supporting on procurement processes, tracking and reporting on programme budgets, and ensuring compliance with health & safety, legal, and regulatory standards.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with experience in project or programme coordination – ideally within construction, housing, or infrastructure – you’ll have strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills. Managing multiple tasks and juggling competing priorities will be second nature to you, and you’ll confidently work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You may have worked in the public sector in a previous role, although this is not essential. More importantly than anything, you’ll be a person passionate about ensuring the smooth, effective and efficient delivery of safe and compliant homes for the benefit of our communities and residents. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative and forward-thinking team, and to supercharge your career in the process.

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.

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.