Senior Team Administrator

Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Legal & General Affordable Homes - we're on a mission to tackle the UK's housing landscape and address the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the UK head-on! With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector. 

As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. Now, we are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes. 

Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, Legal & General Affordable Homes is creating positive, economic and social impacts on the regions and communities in which we work. We strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes. We've already started to make a real difference, but we can't do it alone. 

We’re recruiting for a Senior Team Administrator to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. You will be coordinating and supporting the activities of the Development Team Administrators who support the Acquisitions and Development Teams in the delivery of affordable schemes from legal contracting of the opportunity to practical completion, snagging and handover to customers. 

What you'll be doing:

• Line Managing a team of Development Team Administrators
• Managing the incoming workflow tasks, disseminating work to direct reports and all team activities, ensuring items are dealt with accurately and promptly
• Managing own workload and contributing to the efficient processing of workflow tasks
• Establishing and maintaining project files, setting up and maintaining electronic files of key scheme data. Administering the requisitions and payments process in relation to each project
• Supporting the Project Teams in obtaining and reviewing compliance paperwork to include, but not limited to Gas and Electrical certificates, Fire Risk Assessments etc. ensuring delays in achieving Practical Completion are mitigated
• Establishing, developing, and maintaining effective working relationships with all work colleague
• Maintaining and monitoring the relevant databases relating to legal and contract work
• Always ensuring compliance with the Group’s Health and Safety policy and compliance with all health and safety legal responsibilities.

Who we're looking for:

• Experience in the housing, construction, or project management sector
• Experience of managing a team of administrators and overseeing their workload whilst delivering the expected outcomes of the team
• Microsoft Office including  PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, video conferencing.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise your workload.
• Experience of complex CRM platforms
• Experience of Financial Accounting software used for processing PO requests, unit accounting and goods receipting
• Able to communicate positively and effectively with internal and external teams.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart  

Legal & General is a leading financial services organisation, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.  

We’re one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurers. Connecting to form a unique business model which drives value for our customers and society. And enabling our people to create impact through work that is meaningful and valued.  

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.  

We strive to be open, mindful, and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose. 

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.