Housing Contract Support Officer

Housing Contract Support Officer (AO)
Location: Huntingdon (RAF Wyton, Druce Ave), PE28 2EF

* Pay rate: £15.21
* Grade: AO
* Working pattern: Full-time, Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30, hybrid working (60% office attendance). Full office attendance for training (approx. 2 weeks)
* Clearance: Basic DBS
* Assignment: until 31/03/27, with possibility of extension
* Interview process: via MS Teams

If you're organised, confident with people and keen to support high-quality housing delivery, this is a great opportunity to step into a varied contract support role within a Government environment. You'll work closely with experienced leaders, help keep performance on track, and ensure queries and processes run smoothly.

What you'll be doing:
* Support the Housing Contract Manager and Deputy Housing Contract Manager with day-to-day delivery of housing contract elements
* Help ensure contractual compliance and that key performance standards are met in line with relevant schedules
* Assist with oversight of Defence Accommodation Stores (DAS) provision to Service Family Accommodation, including handling related queries and escalating concerns where appropriate
* Monitor and manage budget and stock information using spreadsheets
* Use assurance and governance approaches to support progress/performance monitoring, and help provide management information when needed
* Support responses to stage 2 complaints and lessons learned, including coordination with complaints colleagues where required
* Manage a multi-user mailbox-responding to queries promptly and professionally or raising them appropriately
* Support administration, including meeting room bookings, capturing minutes/actions, and coordinating visitor arrangements
* Help the wider Housing Delivery Services team with emergent tasks, including cover for the Deputy Housing Contract Manager when required

What you'll bring:
* Experience working in a customer service environment
* Strong communication skills, with confidence when dealing with people and stakeholders
* Solid negotiation and influencing ability, with the ability to lead through others
* Analytical mindset-able to resolve issues independently and review performance trends
* Strong relationship-building skills across multiple stakeholder groups
* Confident working with Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
* Ability to stay organised and adaptable in a fast-paced, changing environment
* Proactive, results-oriented approach with excellent time management
* High integrity and professionalism

If you're a quick learner with confidence, strong MS Office skills (especially Excel) and excellent communication, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now-our client is also happy to review CVs from recent graduates who can demonstrate a strong willingness to learn.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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