First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) aims to be the best in the business, with an excellent team of colleagues and with customers at the heart of everything we do. Established in February 2011, FCHO is one of the largest employers in Oldham. We are committed to boosting the Oldham economy and providing excellent benefits for our employees.

A future-focused and progressive not-for-profit housing association, we want to make Oldham a place where people are proud to live and work. To deliver our promises to our customers we are looking for a highly motivated, customer-focussed individual to appoint to the following key position:

Project Manager – Business Transformation

Permanent, Full-Time

Salary: Circa £42,000

FCHO have set out an ambitious three-year Corporate Plan to review and redesign our customer facing services, internal processes, operating systems and culture. Each year, priority projects from this Corporate Plan will be identified and brought forward for delivery. To help the business to achieve this delivery, we are recruiting a new Transformation team, including two Project Managers – Business Transformation.

These Project Managers will take a Business Partner approach, which means you will be responsible for ensuring that the annual portfolio of projects is successfully achieved across the organisation securing sustainable changes in systems, processes, and culture at FCHO, and allowing for services to better shaped to meet customer needs.

You will make a significant and effective contribution to FCHO, ensuring it is well positioned to achieve both its current and future Corporate Plan aspirations and goals. You will be an ambitious project manager who appreciates that bringing out the best in people is the way to achieve our objectives.

About You…

You will be a highly competent project manager with strong technical skills and experience in delivering a change & transformation. You will have the tenacity and passion for continuous improvement, with a resilience to drive changes through supporting colleagues, partners and customers to embed them. You will have the aptitude to manage multiple projects, with highly developed verbal and written skills and the ability to build strong relationships within your team and with other key stakeholders.

In return you can expect a range of benefits including:

37 hour working week

 Attractive pension scheme - six per cent employer contribution

Free healthcare options - health cash plan for you and your dependents, including Employee Assistance

Holiday entitlement of 30 days and 8 public holidays, plus 1 shut down day determined by the company

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Enhanced occupational sick pay

Hybrid working

Discounted gym membership

Vouchers or cashback on holidays, shopping or days out

Death in Service Benefit

On-site cafe

If you have a passion and commitment for delivering excellent services with leadership and enthusiasm to deliver the best experience to our customers we encourage you to apply. We positively encourage applications from disabled people, women, young people, Veterans and serving British regular or reserve Armed Forces Personnel, the LGBT community and the BME community. Details of the application process are available on our website at following the link “Working with FCHO”

The deadline for completed applications is Fri 31 March at 10am.

Previous applicants need not apply. If we receive a large number of applications, we may close this advert earlier than the date and time above