47 jobs found in Basildon

We are currently recruiting for a Commercial Estates Asset Manager for a Local Authority to work on a initial 3 month contract. The main purpose of the role will be to: Provide day to day operational leadership for the non-housing property portfolio Ensure effective estate management, income protection and risk management Lead a team of x2 estates management surveyors Oversee property management Support the business in achieving the service plan Oversee landlord and tenant matters including rent reviews, lease renewals, re-gears, terminations, licences, assignments and enforcement actions. Ensure effective instruction and management of external professional advisors (agents, valuers, solicitors), controlling costs and quality of advice. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in Property Management, Asset Management and Estates Management across the non-housing sector. This role will require 2 days in the Grays office per week. £74.32 per hour paid via a...

Local authority in Essex currently requires a principal estate surveyor for an initial period of three months ( likely to be ongoing ). Purpose of the role: Manage the day-to-day operation of the Council�s non-housing property portfolio, ensuring assets are managed efficiently, compliantly and in line with Council policies. Line manage estates Surveyors, including workload allocation, performance management, appraisals, professional supervision and quality assurance of outputs. Oversee landlord and tenant matters including rent reviews, lease renewals, re-gears, terminations, licences, assignments and enforcement actions. Ensure effective instruction and management of external professional advisors (agents, valuers, solicitors), controlling costs and quality of advice. Act as the primary operational point of contact for tenants, internal services and external stakeholders on estate management issues. Manage and prioritise competing workstreams, responding to urgent or...

Our client is currently seeking a Service Delivery Manager on a 6 month contract. The Service Delivery Manager will have worked in a Senior of Lead capacity with a strong background in Incident and Change Management. The Service Delivery Manager will ensure the production of Monthly Service Review packs, ad-hoc Incident and Major Incident Reports and relevant Management Information reports as required on a day to day basis to support customer expectations. This is a hybrid based role with the need to be in the office in Kent 2 days per week. Key Responsibilities for the Service Delivery Manager Support the Technology Service Delivery Management team to maintain a strong service relationship with business stakeholders through regular engagement, ensuring continued buy in, transparency of decision making and evangelising the continued value of the Service Delivery capabilities. Ensure that board reporting is transparent, accurate and positively reflected with the appropriate...

Assistant Finance Manager Opportunities - Capital & Treasury 📍 Hybrid | 3‑Month Contract | 36 Hours (Mon-Fri) 💰 £500 per day (Umbrella) 🏢 Office: Dockside, Newham - 2-3 days in office per week Are you an experienced finance professional ready to step into a leadership-focused, high‑impact role within a forward‑thinking local authority? Two exciting Assistant Finance Manager positions-one in Capital and one in Treasury-are now available on an initial 3‑month contract. These roles are ideal for candidates with strong technical accounting skills, a solid understanding of public sector finance, and the confidence to support complex strategic decision-making. 🔎 About the Roles As an Assistant Finance Manager, you'll support the Finance Manager in delivering high-quality financial insight, oversight and guidance across your designated area. These are hands-on leadership roles, managing up to 22 FTE (including matrix/project teams) and directly line-managing up to 4 staff....

Are you an experienced customer service leader with a passion for delivering exceptional customer service? We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Contact Centre Team Leader with our public sector client based in Newham, East London! If you're ready to take on a dynamic role where you can make a real impact, we want to hear from you! Employment Details: Contract Type: Temporary (initially for 3 months with the potential for extension) Location: Newham, just 5 minutes from Abbey Road train station Pay Rate: £22.79 per hour PAYEAbout the Role: As the Team Leader, you will play a crucial role in guiding a dedicated team of customer service advisors. Your mission? To ensure our frontline services are top-notch and that we uphold our "first-time right" ethos. Here's what you can expect: Lead with Purpose: Manage and motivate a team of customer service advisors to deliver the best in class service. Operational Excellence: Collaborate with the Customer Services...

Head of IT Shared Services About the Role We are seeking an experienced and strategically minded Head of IT Shared Services to lead the delivery, performance, and continuous improvement of shared IT operations. This senior role oversees IT support teams, ensures service excellence aligned with ITIL best practice, and manages a portfolio of suppliers and contracts to achieve high-quality, cost-effective outcomes. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic leadership for shared IT services across the organisation, ensuring reliable, secure, and customer-focused service delivery. Manage and develop IT support teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continual service improvement. Oversee the full lifecycle of ITIL-aligned processes, including Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Level Management. Lead and manage an annual IT operational budget exceeding £1 million, ensuring effective forecasting, cost control, and value for money. Manage relationships...

We are seeking to recruit a Deputy Debt Manager for 6 months with the possibility of a further extension. Essential Requirement: * Have significant experience of billing and debt recovery within sundry debt, preferably for a local authority * Have experience of recovering various debt types but especially Adult Social Care * Working knowledge of Civica for billing and recovery * Experience of supervising staff * Able to engage with a variety of stakeholders, internal and external * Able to learn quick and work independently To be responsible to the Debt Manager – Sundry Debt for: Assisting with the management of a team, raising and recovering sundry debts. Overseeing the team’s business as usual operations and undertaking the more complex work. Assisting the Debt Manager in ensuring the on-going operation of an effective and efficient service, deputising for the Debt Manager where required. The rate is £22.54 PAYE per hour, and the working arrangements are...

Nurture Fosttering is a small, family-owned Independent Fostering Agency based on Lewisham High Street. We are seeking an experienced and motivated Team Manager to join our service on a maternity cover basis, providing strong leadership and support to a dedicated team of social workers. Working in close partnership with the Registered Manager, you will play a key role in maintaining high-quality practice, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving outcomes for children and young people in our care. Key Responsibilities Lead, support, and manage a team of social workers, promoting a culture of reflective practice and continuous learning Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements Maintain a strong focus on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in care Work collaboratively with the Registered Manager to deliver the agency’s vision and objectives Proactively identify opportunities to enhance service quality and outcomes Build and...

We are working with a well-established Managed Service Provider (MSP) based in Bromley who are looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to join their Project Management Office. This role is initially a 3 month fixed term contract to cover a period of sabbatical, with a possibility of becoming permanent. This is an excellent opportunity for an IT Project Manager with MSP experience who enjoys delivering a varied portfolio of projects such as cloud migrations, customer onboarding and infrastructure refreshes. The Role You will be responsible for planning, executing and closing IT projects for a range of clients, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, quality, budget and timescales. Reporting into the Head of Projects / PMO, you’ll work closely with technical teams, account managers and customers to ensure successful outcomes across multiple concurrent projects. Key Responsibilities * Define and document project scope, objectives, deliverables and success criteria in...

Portfolio Credit Control is proud to be partnered with a distinguished public sector seeking Deputy Debt Manager a to join their dynamic finance team. This is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career within a thriving, well-established business renowned for its commitment to employee development and a supportive work environment. Job Purpose: To be responsible to the Debt Manager - Sundry Debt for: Assisting with the management of a team of up to 6 staff raising and recovering sundry debts. Overseeing the team's business as usual operations and undertaking the more complex work. Assisting the Debt Manager in ensuring the on-going operation of an effective and efficient service,deputising for the Debt Manager where required. Responsibilities: Responsible for the management and delivery of the day to day operational aspects of the Corporate Debt Team; debt raising, account management and maximising the council's income. Responsible for performance management to ensure...

Project Manager (HE Sector) Rate - £400 (a day) Location - London (Hybrid) Duration - 6 Months (initially) Ir35 - Outside We're supporting a higher education client in hiring an experienced Project Manager to lead high‑impact digital transformation initiatives across a large, complex organisation. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in modernising services, improving user experience, and delivering technology‑enabled change at scale. The Role You'll manage end‑to‑end digital and IT projects-introducing new systems, data capabilities, and user‑centred digital services. Working closely with Digital/IT teams, technical specialists and third‑party suppliers, you'll ensure solutions are secure, scalable and deliver genuine organisational value. What You'll Lead Delivery of key digital transformation projects from business case through to go‑live. Implementation of modern platforms, cloud solutions, and digital services. Stakeholder engagement across a multi‑faceted...

Our client, a well established fintech business is looking for a Product Manager for a 6 month contract, working on a hybrid basis. This Product Manager will drive the expansion of an Invoicing API platform, enabling merchants and partners to access scalable invoicing capabilities through APIs. The role focuses on execution, API capability development, and developer experience, in close partnership with engineering, risk, documentation, and partner teams. The Product Manager will take ownership of an active roadmap, assess gaps, prioritize work, and deliver API enhancements that unlock new merchant and partner use cases. This is a hands-on, execution-driven role suited for Product Managers who are experienced in delivering platform products in complex environments. What you will do in this role: You will own the delivery of invoicing API capabilities across an active roadmap You will define requirements, sequencing, and dependencies in close partnership with engineering teams...

We are looklng for an immediately available Tax Manager, this is a hands-on, high-impact role at the heart of a dynamic media business. As Tax Manager, you'll be responsible for projects, automation, tax compliance, governance, advisory and reporting across the group. As part of a capable in-house team, you will play a key role in supporting the business with practical, well informed tax input across a broad range of issues-whether it's helping shape a commercial deal, navigating new tax rules, or identifying opportunities for automation or other efficiencies. Key Responsibilities Core Tax Operations & Governance (40-60%) Deliver UK corporate tax compliance in-house-this is not currently an outsourced model. You'll manage complex submissions and ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of all deliverables. Deliver tax provisioning and support the year-end close process, working closely with Group Finance under tight reporting deadlines. Maintain and enhance internal...

Occupational Therapist – Deputy Team Manager - Adult Social Care  A South London local authority is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join their Adult Social Care Contact Team as a Deputy Team Manager. This is a frontline, fast-paced service that promotes independence through early, effective Occupational Therapy intervention. The service is strength-based and person-centred, supporting adults to remain safe, independent, and well within their own homes and communities. Main Duties: Provide day-to-day operational leadership within the Adult Social Care Contact Team Oversee Occupational Therapy service provision, including management of the generic OT inbox Quality-assure OT referrals, contact assessments, and equipment recommendations Allocate OT work on a weekly basis and monitor team workloads Provide professional OT guidance, supervision, and clinical oversight Authorise straightforward OT equipment following assessment (excluding major adaptations) Support...

SHORT TERM CONTRACT - 6 MONTHS - IMMEDIATE START CATEGORY MANAGER – Fixtures, Fittings & Equipment LOCATION – Central London, EC1V PACKAGE – Basic salary £60,000 – 70,000 plus benefits My client specialises in the running of luxury hotels, currently operating 16 hotels, ranging from 2 airport ‘express’ to a selection of high specification hotels in Central London. Focused on providing an exceptional stay for their guests, they have a 12 person procurement team that sources all food, products, equipment and services for the group. The Role: The purpose of the role is to support all strategic sourcing activities including tender execution and supplier negotiations, contract implementation, supplier relationship management, contractual compliance and risk mitigation for the Fixtures, Fittings and Operational Spend Equipment categories. Focused on supporting key projects delivering new properties, refurbishing existing hotels and repurposing current spaces. They will play a...

James Stevens Associates are working with a North London based Housing Association that are now looking for a Complaints and Information Manager. · Complaints and Information Manager · 12 month Fixed Term · £50,000 - £60,000 · North London / Walkable via London Underground Station · 2 days per week in office X 3 days from home · The role will be covering coordination of complaints, Ombudsman, members enquiries (MPs and councillors), SAR, and FOI. The role manages a small team of officers to coordinate the administrative processes for Stage 1 and 2 complaints, members’ enquiries, Ombudsman enquiries, Freedom of Information requests, and Subject Access Requests. Make complaints count. Turn insight into impact. Lead service excellence. We’re looking for an experienced, values-driven leader to take ownership of complaints, information rights, and member enquiries across The organisation and its subsidiaries. This is a high-profile role where you’ll lead a central Complaints...

Your new role Senior Credit Controller Working for a government organisation, you will be reporting to the Accounts Receivable Manager. Duration - Until 31st March - possibility of extension from 1st April (ongoing contract) Rate - £165 - £185/day Start Date - ASAP Working Pattern - Hybrid - 1 day/ week in the office (Thursday), 4 days from home Location- Offices based in East London Key Responsibilities Lead and coordinate all project‑related activities within the region, ensuring effective allocation, management, and monitoring of workloads across the Accounts Receivable (AR) team so that all project deliverables are completed accurately and on schedule. Manage and support a team of credit controllers and other project stakeholders, driving high performance, compliance, and timely delivery across all assigned activities. Enhance Order‑to‑Cash (O2C) processes, with a strong focus on improving cash application, collections, account reconciliations, and month-end close tasks...

DIGITAL PRODUCT MANAGER - 1 YEAR CONTRACT - HYBRID WORKING - NO SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE Job Description Our client are looking for a Digital Product Manager to join their team on an initial 1 year contract. In this role, you will be instrumental in managing and designing proprietary digital products, including their mobile app and website. You will work on technical product initiatives and go-to-market strategies in a diverse, multi-market environment, serving as a central resource for design, process, analytics, and product teams. Responsibilities Assist in developing business cases for new products or features. Support research of regulatory developments and provide input on potential implications in a multi-market global domain. Document product processes for management, enhancements, and standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and document product requirements, ensuring timely delivery of product features using agile methodologies. Act as the primary...

Senior Project Manager – Retail (Contract) On behalf of our client; Rapid Resource are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager (Contract) with a strong background in retail programme delivery to take full ownership of a high-profile retail client account. The position is on a 3-month contract basis with the opportunity to roll on. Working from home with Client site visits when required. Day Rate: £475 This role is suited to a senior contractor with hands-on experience delivering complex programmes within large retail organisations, including multi-site store environments and retail technology. You will act as the senior delivery lead, accountable for all programmes and projects delivered to the account from concept through deployment. Key Responsibilities * Own and lead end-to-end delivery of all programmes and projects for one major retail account * Manage multiple concurrent retail initiatives, including multi-site store rollouts and enterprise retail solutions *...

Job Title: Marketing and Communications Manager Duration: 6 months Location: London/Hybrid (three days per week in the office) Salary: Competitive Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. Are you a dynamic marketing professional with a passion for financial services? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to make a real impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Our client, a leading organisation in the banking sector, is seeking a Marketing and Communications Manager to join their innovative team. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Development: Drive the UK Marketing Strategy, ensuring alignment...