About Us Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that “everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well”; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare, and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living. Job Title: Senior Development Manager Location: London, Farringdon Salary: £77,307 - £81,376 Key Responsibilities and Outcomes: Timely and Budget-Conscious Delivery: Ensure schemes are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards, meeting all HE/GLA contractual obligations. Audit Compliance: Take responsibility for scheme audits (internal, external, GLA, HCA) and ensure audit compliance. Cost Control: Maintain strict control over all scheme costs, ensuring all transactions are properly recorded, checked, and authorised. Contract Monitoring: Oversee contract variations, ensuring costs remain within the contract sum, and highlight any changes to the Head of Delivery. Tendering Procedures: Ensure adherence to tendering procedures and proper execution of contracts and development agreements in line with Standing Orders. Cashflow Management: Regularly update cashflows, exercise excellent budgetary control, and report variances as necessary. Reporting: Prepare and deliver reports to clients or Head of Delivery as required. Consultant Management: Manage external consultant teams through planning, design, and construction of new projects, ensuring high standards and robust reporting. Reporting and Presentation Skills: Provide exceptional report writing and presentation skills, and comfortably present to senior management. Skills / Experience / Knowledge: Degree Qualified: Ideally in a related field. APM (PMQ) Qualification: Or equivalent construction related qualification, desirable. Track Record: Minimum 5 years senior delivery level proven track record of managing delivery of complex, multi-tenure schemes, on time and within budget. Communication Skills: Excellent client-facing communication skills. Analytical Abilities: Strong intellect with the ability to analyse project situations reaching well-formed conclusions swiftly. Negotiation Skills: Excellent negotiation and influencing skills. Reporting and Presentation: Exceptional report writing and presentation skills. Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship. What’s in it for you? Our benefits include:- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9% Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year Life assurance cover 3 x your salary Cycle2work scheme Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation About us We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH. Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing. We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:- Gender Ethnicity LGBTQ+ Disability Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together! We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.