About the Role
Sheffield City Council is one of the UK's biggest social landlords, with a housing stock of around 40,000 tenanted and leasehold properties. At the heart of our growing and vibrant city, our housing service has a big role to play in the continued flourishing of the city.
If you want to help shape the future of Emergency Accommodation in Sheffield, look no further! We're looking for a skilled Project Officer to join our Housing Voids team within Housing Services. This role offers the chance to help deliver a high-profile project that will improve outcomes for customers.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to see the tangible impact of your work, this is the opportunity for you.
The role will be working on a pilot ensuring that temporary accommodation void properties are quickly turned around from empty to occupied. You will be working alongside our operational teams within our Homelessness and Supported Housing Service, to ensure system issues and barriers are identified and resolved to enable sustainable change. This will ensure efficient use of stock and significantly shorten and reduce the length of stays in bed and breakfast accommodation for families.
Key Priorities:
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more here New job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council | Sheffield City Council
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Sheffield City Council is one of the UK's biggest social landlords, with a housing stock of around 40,000 tenanted and leasehold properties. At the heart of our growing and vibrant city, our housing service has a big role to play in the continued flourishing of the city.
If you want to help shape the future of Emergency Accommodation in Sheffield, look no further! We're looking for a skilled Project Officer to join our Housing Voids team within Housing Services. This role offers the chance to help deliver a high-profile project that will improve outcomes for customers.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to see the tangible impact of your work, this is the opportunity for you.
The role will be working on a pilot ensuring that temporary accommodation void properties are quickly turned around from empty to occupied. You will be working alongside our operational teams within our Homelessness and Supported Housing Service, to ensure system issues and barriers are identified and resolved to enable sustainable change. This will ensure efficient use of stock and significantly shorten and reduce the length of stays in bed and breakfast accommodation for families.
Key Priorities:
- Improve performance on temporary accommodation void turnaround
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders.
- Provide clear reporting and updates to senior leadership teams/boards.
- Ability to build effective relationships, influence others, negotiate solutions, and sustain stakeholder commitment.
- Ability to think flexibly, creatively and search for new and innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Good organisational skills - ability to manage competing demands.
- Ability to meet targets, milestones, and deadlines, ensuring projects stay on time and within budget while identifying risk at an early stage
- Substantial experience of the following Microsoft packages: Outlook, Word and Excel (experience of working with PowerPoint, and Power BI apps is desirable but not essential as training in these can be provided)
- Confidence in using project management tools and methodologies (however previous experience of working in a project delivery environment is not essential).
- Initial Assessment: Based on our standard application form, assessing relevant skills, knowledge, and experience.
- Interview: Standard interview format with a panel of 3 Council officers.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more here New job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council | Sheffield City Council
Team Leader