Job Details:
Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: x2Permanent
Closing date: 3 November 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 10 November 2025 About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE. Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work. Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles. Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data. More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs. Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.The Role:
As a Fire Risk Assessments (FRA) Programme Coordinator, you too can make a powerful contribution. You’ll be pivotal to ensuring the safety of our residents. Support the Fire Safety Team by managing report data, assigning actions to delivery teams, tracking progress, and ensuring all evidence is uploaded to maintain a clear audit trail. You’ll monitor and ensure regulatory compliance with housing fire safety legislation, including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the Building Safety Act 2022, and guidance from the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS). You’ll turn to innovative thinking to manage operational risks, solve on-site issues, and streamline processes for better safety, quality, and delivery. Plus, you’ll maintain accurate records of Fire Risk Assessments (FRA) across all housing stock, ensuring assessments are up to date, actions are tracked, and remedial works are monitored through to completion. This will entail keeping accurate data on communal alarms, emergency lighting, fire doors, smoke detectors, and more. Whenever there are remedial works, you’ll liaise with the relevant teams to ensure these are completed swiftly. You’ll champion a coordinated approach to fire safety compliance. We’re keen to improve our data reporting, help us to do so by identifying operational insights, reporting gaps and through reaching out to internal teams to check that data is accurate, actionable and aligned with programme needs. You’ll share your data insights with senior leadership teams, contractor performance management, and through staff training. Plus, you’ll produce periodic statistical reports and be the main point of contact for documents on processes and procedures. Communication of fire safety information to residents is key, whether it be fire evacuation procedures, safety notices or works impacting fire systems. Support us in getting information out there, quickly and clearly. Learning from incidents and near misses is essential. You’ll help us to do this by conducting post-fire investigations, maintaining comprehensive reports and analysis of instances across the borough. Occasionally, you’ll conduct site visits to assess quality issues first hand, engaging in constructive and sometimes challenging conversations with contractors so that safety and compliance standards are always met. This is your opportunity to be proactive about reducing risk, ensuring compliance, and driving improvements in a massively important area for the residents of Westminster. Please refer to the Job Description for more information. About You:
To be a good fit, you’ve previously worked in a compliance data coordination role, preferably within a local authority or housing provider environment. This has given you a good understanding of compliance safety and data requirements. You’re ready to analyse data, derive insights and patterns, build dashboards from compliance output actions, and create system reports. Backed by a good understanding of data governance, management, analysis and problem solving. Specifically, you’ve either managed or supported the management of fire safety compliance data, including fire risk assessments (FRAs), remedial actions, and certification tracking across residential housing stock. You are skilled in the use of compliance and asset management systems, such as Shine or Orchard. With confidence, you can extract, validate and present data. You’re experienced at preparing clear reports, dashboards and summaries for internal teams. As well as becoming familiar with WCC’s internal fire safety procedures and data standards, we’d like you to have a working knowledge of relevant fire safety and housing legislation, including the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the Building Safety Act 2022. A clear and confident communicator, you’re able to work closely with senior managers and a wide range of stakeholders, using a variety of methods. At times, you’ll be asked to represent the organisation professionally. You’re able to display sensitivity, tact and diplomacy in all situations – reacting flexibly to rapidly changing circumstances. Other skills that will be useful include strong organisation skills with an excellent eye for detail. As well as proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office suites, including the use of pivot tables, lookups, and basic automation to manage and present data effectively. Plus, you’re comfortable prioritising workloads, managing competing deadlines, and setting targets. No formal qualifications are necessary to apply, as our focus will mostly be on your experience and skillset. Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
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