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We are currently recruiting for a Soft Landings Manager on behalf of the DWP.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment.
• Increase saving for, and security in later life.
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children.
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants.
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity.

As a Soft Landings Manager your main responsibilities will be: 

• Under Government Soft Landings Revised guidance for the public sector on applying BS8536 parts 1 and 2 (updated for ISO 19650) act as the GSL Champion, delegating responsibilities to other area SME’s where appropriate by redefining current ways of working.
• Assist the work of the BIM Manager in assuring and improving capture of information by integrating the Government Soft Landings approach in to current ways of working & assist develop best practise where applicable.
• Working with internal stakeholders and supply chain partners in the delivery of Life Cycle, CAPEX or other refurbishment projects into the asset management workflow, whilst ensuring health and safety, time, quality, and cost constraints are not compromised.
• Assist in the definition of target performance outcomes with other SMEs at the outset of the project and manage their continued targeting throughout the life cycle of the project. These requirements should be established following consideration of the business case and the functional requirements of the facility. These will include Environmental, Social, Security & Economic performance outcomes.
• Lead on the development of a best fit approach to Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) across the department by conducting workshops and engaging with ket stakeholders to ensure a holistic approach.
• Working with FM Supply chain partner to ensure projects deliver a suitable solution which has the long-term benefits found thorough best practise Asset Management and client-side facilities management services (field teams, asset management surveyors, etc).
• Ensuring lessons learned are carried out as best practice and findings are collected and distributed across stakeholder groups, and post project evaluations are conducted and recorded. This will include developing processes and defining procedures.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Experience delivering projects to Government Soft Landings/BSRIA soft-landing principals on a range of different project types and scale.
• Experience of specifying and/or assessing Environmental, Social, Security and Economic outcomes of projects.
• Familiar with Post Occupancy Surveys with a focus on asset management.
• Improving digital records/digitalisation of data through either Government Soft Landings approach or BSRIA soft-landing principals
• Document control experience, along with document control process management- desirable.
• Understanding of Asset management Planned Preventative Management regimes (e.g. SFG20, FMS002), with knowledge of how Soft Landings approach can assist cost saving. · Knowledge of property data management systems, computer aided facilities management systems and Government Digital Standards-desirable
• Asset Management Specification & validation-desirable

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with tracey.mort@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.