Contracts Officer

Are you passionate about fostering strong relationships between residents and contractors? We're seeking a proactive and empathetic individual to ensure resident needs are met while maintaining clear communication and coordination across all stakeholders.

If you have experience in resident liaison, excellent communication skills, and a dedication to delivering outstanding customer care, this role is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on housing services and community engagement.

MMP Consultancy are looking to recruit Resident Liaison Officers to work for a local authority based in South West London.

Pay Rate: £30.99 Per Hour

Responsibilities:

• Effectively liaise between the Council, residents and contractors to ensure that resident requirements are met and any issues are promptly and suitably addressed.
• Providing support to any vulnerable residents, you will work with carers and other relevant advocates to ensure that specific needs are taken account of and any issues are resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
• Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships, facilitate communications and coordinate activities to streamline operations, public communications, incident response and conflict resolution.
• Deliver effective resident consultation and engagement, providing assurances at all levels that our buildings are compliant to all legislative requirements.
• Developing and delivering effective communication with residents, liaising closely with contractor staff to assist in the smooth running of the programmes and the ongoing building management

Skills & Experience Required:

• Previous experience of working as a Resident Liaison Officer or Coordinator
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills
• Proven experience of delivering excellent customer care
• Experience of handling challenging and complex situations
• An effective communicator at all levels, you will be able to work proactively and independently to deliver on tight timescales

MMP Consultancy are looking to recruit a Resident Liaison Officer in Merton. This will be on a temporary ongoing role.

Pay Rate: £25.38 Per Hour


Responsibilities:

• Effectively liaise between residents and contractors to ensure that resident requirements are met and any issues are promptly and suitably addressed.
• Providing support to any vulnerable residents, you will work with carers and other relevant advocates to ensure that specific needs are taken account of and any issues are resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
• Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships, facilitate communications and coordinate activities to streamline operations, public communications, incident response and conflict resolution.
• Deliver effective resident consultation and engagement, providing assurances at all levels that our buildings are compliant to all legislative requirements.
• Developing and delivering effective communication with residents, liaising closely with contractor staff to assist in the smooth running of the programmes and the ongoing building management

Skills & Experience Required:

• Previous experience of working as a Resident Liaison Officer or Coordinator
• Excellent written and interpersonal skills
• Proven experience of delivering excellent customer care
• Experience of handling challenging and complex situations
• An effective communicator at all levels, you will be able to work proactively and independently to deliver on tight timescales

MMP Consultancy are looking to recruit a Homelessness Prevention Officer on a Temporary basis for a Local Authority based in North West London.

Duties:

• Managing a caseload of people who are currently experiencing a housing crisis and provide a service that seeks to minimise the duration of that crisis.
• Understanding the complex, multiple needs as well as strengths of those individuals and develop trusting, non-dependent relationships to improve their confidence and motivation to progress towards their next step in housing.
• Empowering individuals to find their own solution to their housing crisis, drawing on the assistance provided by the Housing Options Team.
• Create individual Personal Housing Plans (PHPs) for everyone in housing need to sustain existing accommodation and/or find new housing, taking account of their personal circumstances and keep the plan under review.
• Carry out all agreed actions in the PHP that the Council is to take in a timely manner and update the plans promptly.
• Helping people to understand the rented housing market, keeping up-to-date with Local Housing Allowance, benefit changes, and opportunities.
• Providing some support for individuals through the resettlement process when moving to a new home.
• Helping tenants with preparing defence forms for section 21 and other relevant court proceedings

MMP Consultancy are looking for an experienced Procurement Officer to work for a Housing Provider in North London on a Permanent basis.

The purpose of procurement is to obtain competitive prices for supplies, delivering the most value for money for the organisation throughout the procurement lifecycle. This must be done within the applicable legislative framework.
A Procurement Officer is a central part of the procurement department, and you'll liaise with key stakeholders to ensure Procurement requirements are understood and comply with internal governance and procurement policies.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to support delivery of Procurement objectives
• Identify and document risks, issues and opportunities.
• Lead assigned sourcing initiatives, which vary in terms of scope and scale.
• Build relationships with key suppliers.
• Adhere to the corporate standards and applicable legislative frameworks, including using the defined sourcing tools and processes in delivery of sourcing initiatives.
• Promote compliance with business processes.
• Support organisation in the preparation and publication of applicable notices (as per Procurement Act 2023) and other applicable legislation.
• Manage procurement systems, as required.

Essential skills:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills
• An appreciation of Procurement Processes and challenges
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and work under pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Project Management and problem solving skills.
• Good user-level knowledge of MS Office programmes, particularly Excel and Word

MMP Consultancy are working with a fantastic organisation to recruit Neighbourhood Officer to join them on a temporary basis, based in Kent.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage tenancies across all tenures to provide excellent tailored services that sustain tenancies and make best use of our homes.
• Tailor new customers relationships according to need, maintaining the most appropriate ongoing contact with customers to enable them to understand and fulfil the expectations of their tenancy agreement.
• Make the best use of our homes by supporting customers to be in the right home whether through use of registers, mutual exchanges, transfers, decants and under-occupation.
• Help customers to understand their responsibilities as tenants and how to sustain their tenancy.
• Build safe communities with proactive and consistent service delivery to reduce and respond to reports of anti-social behaviour, hate crime, domestic abuse, safeguarding and other tenancy breaches.
• Undertake appropriate activities to prepare cases for legal action and deliver successful outcomes on legal cases for the organisation.
• Manage environments where we have homes and identify new opportunities to improve estate and scheme conditions to create places where people want to live.
• Provide technical and professional housing/tenancy management advice.
• Effectively audit homes to identify and prevent tenancy fraud.
• Promote and signpost tenants to opportunities for training and employment to meet their aspirations and maximise their income in support of our Income Protection and Financial Well Being strategies.
• Build and maintain partnerships with internal and external customer, statutory agencies and referral-based services to support excellent local area delivery.
• Continuously support the development and use of ICT to provide an efficient, modern and responsive service to customers.

MMP Consultancy is currently seeking a Technical Lead for a programme of works in a Local Authority based in South London. £400 - £450 per day (Inside IR35)

Office working required minimum 3 days with on site visits.

Details

Title: Technical Lead (M&E)
Rate: £400 - £450 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: Interim
Location: South London

Key Duties:

Be the responsible person for M&E and Technical related queries in delivery of a Major programme within the Property Services department of a local authority.

Understanding of high rise buildings and compliance related data and surveying information.

Recognise patterns and quality of information as well as be the accountable person for quality of delivery through contract management and internal / external stakeholder engagement.

Manage on site team for quality assurance.

Management of work flow and deliver to contractual obligations.

Remain consistent and communicate effectively, produce updates and progress reports as required.

Experience Required:

• Must hold a relevant qualification (Compliance, Mechanical, Electrical)
• Holds experience in a similar role for circa 5 years
• Social housing experience.