Graduate / School Leaver Opportunities
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The Vacancy
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-Time (37 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Friday 21 July 2023 (Noon)
Exciting career opportunities for college/university leavers in summer 2023!
Salaries:
- For university entrants - £25,871 per annum on entry (or higher depending on prior experience).
- For sixth form/college entrants - £21,309 per annum on entry
All entrants will receive accelerated career and salary progression up to £40,666 per annum subject to satisfactory performance. These roles attract a competitive pension and benefits, lifestyle rewards discounts and full funding towards a degree or masters’ qualification. Through our employability team we also offer partial funding towards driving lessons if you do not currently have your license.
The opportunities
We’re looking for confident and highly creative sixth form/college/university graduates who have the potential, drive and personal credibility to join our talented team of professionals at Livin.
In addition to the skills, knowledge, experience and academic ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, our ambitious candidates will be passionate about our local communities and ready to make a career-defining contribution to delivery of our Plan A business strategy.
Our Livin team is a close-knit working community of diverse people with social hearts who make a real impact on the lives of our tenants every day.
These three posts are excellent opportunities to embark on a career in social housing at the heart of County Durham.
About us
We are an award-winning not for profit housing association that currently owns over 8,600 homes across County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our places. We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, sustainable and adaptable, while meeting tenants’ current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into work and training and increase their financial confidence and stability.
There is no Plan B. There is no Planet B either. Now in the third and final phase of our nine-year Plan A, our strategy for 2022-25 and beyond requires us, our suppliers, partners, and customers to raise our game with a primary focus on supporting sustainable places. To achieve this our new build and acquisition programme, regeneration work and home improvement programme will all be focused on improving lives through sustainable homes and places.
About the roles
You’ll be welcomed by the Livin team as one of several new entrants to our business in a diverse range of roles that have been designed to grow our future leadership capability.
Assistant IT Solutions Engineer
Assisting with the implementation, development, and support of applications to streamline internal and external processes, you will support the business in creating and maintaining an insight-based culture, improving services and performance by developing fit for purpose business intelligence dashboards and reporting. You will also contribute to the operation of an efficient IT Service Desk, providing users with an exceptional experience.
Governance Adviser
You will work with the Executive Director of Corporate Services and other senior managers to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and our adopted code of governance and continuously improve governance within Livin.
The role will also provide an advisory, monitoring and assurance function for a range of core governance functions, including risk management and compliance and knowledge and information management, and support the legal and equality, diversity and inclusion functions as required.
Policy and Strategy Analyst
You will provide professional advice and support to the Chief Executive and other members of the Executive Management Team, undertaking high-quality research, preparing briefings and communicating effectively with key stakeholders. In addition, you will play a key role in the development and delivery of the business strategy through proactively analysing the operating environment, assessing and mitigating risk, maximising opportunities, translating strategy into policy and action and monitoring progress and impact.
Each role has been structured to build your skills and knowledge with exposure to a diverse range of activities that support our core business as well as receive targeted experiences on transformational projects designed to meet our strategic objectives. All of this whilst obtaining a degree or masters qualification.
You will:
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Receive targeted learning and development opportunities with support from experienced professionals in their area
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Participate in change programmes where you will support the delivery of our strategy and key business priorities.
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Work collaboratively and build trusted relationships across the organisation.
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Support our day-to-day operations, showing creative flair and bringing a fresh perspective to existing processes and methodologies.
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Your ideas and perspective will be invaluable to us in challenging existing ways of working and building for the future.
About you
To be successful in these roles, we are looking for:
Governance Adviser and Assistant IT Solutions Engineer:
A university leaver with high potential evidenced by a first or upper-second class degree in a relevant discipline.
Policy and Strategy Analyst:
A university leaver (all roles) with high potential evidenced by a first or upper-second class degree in a relevant discipline.
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Sixth form/college leavers) with high potential evidenced by A*/A or B grades in all subjects. Typically, the subjects studied at A Level or equivalent Level 3 will preferably include Business Studies, Politics or other Social Sciences.
Don’t be put off if you have changed your career goals after your studies!
Although IT qualifications are critical for the IT post, for the Governance and Policy/Strategy roles if you have studied other subjects but now want to pursue a career in social housing and have transferable skills, we will be keen to hear from you and find out about you and how you can benefit our organisation.
The role and person profiles for these roles detail the skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours we are looking for. If you feel inspired and see yourself when you read these then you may have found your perfect career.
Benefits
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Find out more:
For an informal discussion about each role please send an email to arrange a call to:
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Assistant IT Solutions Engineer - Dan Evans (Head of IT) – dan.evans@livin.co.uk
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Governance Adviser - Paul Stephens (Executive Director of Corporate Services) - paul.stephens@livin.co.uk
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Policy and Strategy Analyst - Helen Darby (Executive Lead Transformation) - helen.darby@livin.co.uk
The Company
We are an award winning not for profit housing association based in County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our communities.
We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, efficient and adaptable, while meeting your current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into employment and qualifications and increase their financial confidence and stability.
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