Transformation Project Manager – Town Centre Regeneration

Wigan Town Hall

Library Street

Wigan

WN1 1YN

Salary: Grade 9, £35,411 – £40,478 per annum.

37 hours per week

Temporary until March 2025

Your role:

We are looking for a Transformation Project Manager to help deliver the Council’s ambitious regeneration plans for the borough’s town centres. You will work on a range of exciting projects to support the delivery of our Strategic Regeneration Frameworks, as well as the regeneration of Ashton-in-Makerfield town centre.

You will take responsibility for managing specific projects and tasks, establishing project groups, ensuring milestones are met, risks and issues are well-managed, and deliverables are achieved. You will have a good knowledge of current policy and be able to provide accurate and timely briefings for senior leaders.

Reporting to the Programme Manager – Town Centre Regeneration, you will work with a range of officers and managers across the organisation including Regeneration, Planning, Property, Economic Development, Major Projects, Legal and Finance, as well as external partners.

About you:

We’re looking for experience and energy in a project manager who is used to managing projects within a complex working environment. Adept at building great relationships and getting along with colleagues, you’ll be a real people person, friendly, positive and forward-thinking. You will be keen to get on with the job at hand with strong organisational skills, ability to keep your eye – and those of your colleagues – on the end goal and a track record of delivering projects which meet objectives on time. You will be a good planner with strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the iESE Public Sector Transformation Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough.  We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or ‘unbroken’ between the supporting organisations.

Wigan is a great place to live and work and the council truly values and recognises its staff as its greatest asset. Through our ‘Be Wigan’ behaviours, Be Courageous, Be Accountable, Be Positive and Be Kind, we actively encourage innovation, strive to deliver outstanding services and celebrate our successes.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, applicants demonstrating our Team Wigan behaviours, is really important to us, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.

For further information, or an informal discussion please contact Martin Ledson on 01942 404058 or martin.ledson@wigan.gov.uk

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Interview date: Wednesday 14^th June 2023