Top job! Senior Technical Officer x2
- Full time
- £46,728 – £50,556
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 31st July 2024
- Advertised from 26th June 2024
- EVH GRADE 8. Permanent.
Role
Glasgow West Housing Association Ltd is a voluntary, not for profit organisation and a registered charity. With history dating back to 1978, we have a vision of shaping thriving communities. With over 1500 rented properties: Homes are our purpose, service and sustainability is our priority.
Following a recent restructure of our Services and Technical Departments, we have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Technical Officer. We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals who can demonstrate their commitment to delivering high quality projects to an excellent standard.
Located in the heart of Glasgow’s West End, you will be a key member of Technical Team, supporting our ambitious procurement and investment plans across Net-Zero initiatives, component replacement, Major Repairs, and Cyclical Maintenance projects with a view to ensuring Scottish Housing Quality Standards compliance, enhancing the quality of our homes, ensuring resident satisfaction; and improving our neighbourhoods.
The ideal candidate will have experience delivering a range of planned and ad-hoc major work, common repairs and investment initiatives, with sound working knowledge of preparing procurement business cases, work specifications and tenders. A relevant professional or vocational qualification (HND/SCQF level 8 or above) would be desirable.
A summary of key tasks include:
- Preparing procurement business cases in compliance with procurement strategy, ensuring timely preparation of work specifications and tenders, and contributing to tender evaluations, to meet project planning and governance objectives.
- Development of relevant consultant appointment service level agreements, appointment documentation and rolling performance monitoring / management.
- Delivering a range of planned / ad-hoc major works / common repair, Net-Zero, and investment initiatives including cyclical, SHQS & EESSH compliance projects, and component replacement as directed.
- Property inspections / reporting to assess compliance with SHQS / EESSH , to inform investment strategy.Pre and Post Contract administration in line with GWHA procurement strategy (including but not limited to preparing / contributing to tender documentation, tender evaluation, issuing instructions, ensuring contractor compliance).
- Assessing and addressing contractor performance in respect of quality and performance across all functions.
In return, GWHA offer generous EVH Terms and Conditions including:
- 25 days annual leave and 15 public holidays
- Flexible working practices including flexi time, home working, enhanced occupational maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Ongoing professional development & training opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Specific GWHA benefits including; annual service commitment award, long service award and additional festive leave
- Death in Service Benefit
Post subject to satisfactory Disclosure Check.
Application notes
Closing date: 31 July at 12 noon.
If you are interested in applying for the role, please send a covering letter and CV to recruitment@glasgowwestha.co.uk
For an informal discussion, please email recruitment@glasgowwestha.co.uk in the first instance to arrange a call.
We reserve the right to close this job at any time, therefore early application is recommended to ensure you do not miss this fantastic opportunity.
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Top job! Head of Finance and Corporate Services / Depute Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £64,075 – £67,295
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 23rd July 2024
Cadder Housing Association is a registered social landlord based in Glasgow which owns and maintains 697 homes for affordable rent and provides factoring services to over 400 private homeowners. Our values are respect, integrity, people focused and excellent outcomes, and these are embedded in everything we do.
We are seeking a qualified and experienced finance professional to join the Association. This is a key role within the organisation, you will work closely with and deputise for the Chief Executive Officer and be a Senior Management Team member delivering our vision, values and strategic objectives for our customers.
This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to join Cadder Housing Association as we bring our financial accounting back in-house. In this role you will provide leadership, management and support to the finance and corporate services team in the delivery of effective financial management, treasury management, governance and compliance, human resource, IT and the corporate services function of the Association.
We are looking for a positive, experienced leader to drive forward change and to build a strong team and a customer- focused culture across the organisation. You should have a proven track record in the delivery of an excellent finance service.
An exciting opportunity has become available at Wellhouse Housing Association for a Director who will work with the Management Committee and staff team to lead the association and ensure the continuation of a high quality service to tenants.
In 1990, a tenants’ steering group was set up to seek the transfer of 335 homes from Glasgow City Council to community ownership. Their success led to the creation of Wellhouse Housing Association, registered as a social landlord in 1994. A second successful stock transfer from Glasgow Housing Association in 2010 resulted in all the social rented homes in Wellhouse being owned by the housing association. The association has worked hard to transform the local area and build new homes. We now own 798 good quality rented homes and factor a further 52 on behalf of other owners. We are a financially strong, well governed community-controlled association with an ambitious Business Plan in place.
We are now looking for an outstanding candidate to move us to our next stage of organisational development, including reinvestment in our stock, environmental improvements and our ambitions for land purchase and development of new social housing.
As our new Director you will be an experienced housing professional and senior manager with full knowledge of social housing in Scotland’s regulatory framework. You will be experienced in working closely with a governing body and will understand the current challenges facing communities like ours. You will be an inspirational leader for our staff team, including our 3 senior managers, and the community of Wellhouse.
In return, we offer a pleasant working environment and excellent terms and conditions of employment, including a generous defined contribution pension scheme.
Property Services Officer (Factoring)
- Full time
- £39,087 – £42,910
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 1st July 2024
Queens Cross Housing Association is seeking an experienced Property Services Officer (Factoring) to join our subsidiary, Queens Cross Factoring Ltd. The role involves ensuring that the 2,700 properties we own and manage are maintained to the highest standards.
The purpose of this post is to provide a knowledgeable repairs service to our clients. The successful applicant will lead confidently on major repairs schemes that involve voluntary tenement repair schemes, liaising with surveyors and Glasgow City Council for grant assistance. Organising cyclical and planned programmes of works and having the ability to understand complicated specification of works and read through and dissect relevant information within survey reports.
The post will also require the person to respond to technical questions and understand major works projects and confidently present to owners at evening meetings. The role will also require an understanding of title deeds, Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011, the Code of Conduct for Property Factors and the Written Statement of Service to ensure our legal obligations as factor are adhered to.
Please find the full job description and person specification on our website for further information on the role.
Essential criteria:
• A minimum of 3 years working in a property management environment or relevant experience in a property related environment.
• Practical understanding of common repairs and property management.
• Understanding of (1) health & safety, (2) repairs and maintenance, and (3) title deeds/ deed of conditions.
• Ability to build confidence and long-term relationships with our owners, as we are maintaining their asset.
You will:
• be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and committed to excellent customer service.
• have excellent communication and organisational skills.
• be adaptable with the ability to manage competing deadlines.
• be calm under pressure and work to achieve a positive outcome for customers.
We will:
Provide a generous pay and reward package, including 40 days leave per year, 7% or 4% employer pension contribution, agile working options, green initiatives, family friendly policies, health & wellbeing commitment and much more. Read all about our benefits and commitments on our website.
Queens Cross Housing Association is looking to recruit a Finance Manager to the Business Services Team which supports the group’s subsidiaries Queens Cross Workspace and Queens Cross Factoring.
The Finance Manager plays a key business role for the subsidiary companies, setting and managing budgets, treasury management, analysing financial information, preparing management and annual accounts. The subsidiaries are medium-sized businesses in their own right and have their own separate property and financial management systems and software. Currently, the turnover for Workspace is £950k and Factoring is £2m and both companies are growing and developing.
The post-holder will report to the Business Services Manager and will line manage a small team of two Credit Control Assistants and one Finance Assistant.
Essential criteria:
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in finance role.
• Experience of setting and managing of budgets.
• Experience of managing staff to achieve high performance.
• Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures.
• Advanced knowledge of arrears management processes.
• Knowledge of Scottish law and court processes.
• Excellent IT skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, CSV files, and Powerpoint)
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to effectively deal with difficult customers in a calm and professional manner.
You will:
• Take responsibility for service delivery, demonstrating high levels of accuracy and attention to detail and numerical proficiency.
• Be confident in making key decisions and resolving disputes.
• Maintain the ability to perform under pressure, manage a substantial workload, and meet competing deadlines.
Please find the full job description/ person specification attached below for further information on the role.
We will:
Provide a generous pay and reward package, including 40 days leave per year, 7% or 4% employer pension contribution, agile working options, green initiatives, family friendly policies, health & wellbeing commitment and much more. Read all about our benefits and commitments
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