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 Team Administrator to join us. You will be responsible for providing administrative coordination and support to ensure the smooth running of affordable housing projects. You will report into the Senior Team Administrator and will work alongside Development Managers (DMs), Project Quality Managers (PQMs) and internal stakeholders to support the successful and timely delivery of the projects that they manage. 

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for dealing with incoming service requests through our centralised inbox and close these out within our Service Level Agreement 
• Supporting to the DMs and PQMs in collating information required for Audit purposes 
• Supporting DMs and PQMs in running mini tenders and relevant appointment of consultants. Issuing appointment letters to successful consultants, coordinating responses and filing signed documents as appropriate
• 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 of a similar administration role in a technical professional team
• Microsoft Office including  PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, video conferencing
• Experience in housing, construction, or project management sector preferable
• Excellent planning and organisation skills with the ability to prioritise your workload
• 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    
• 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 group and major global investor, 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 aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming 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.

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