Health and Safety Property Project Manager

Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Chief Operating Officer Group works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The group is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Communications, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Private Office, Security, Estates and Information.

The HOPS Health, Safety and Fire Management (FM) Team provides professional health and safety policy, guidance, advice, expertise, and support to Home Office staff based in the UK and Europe. The risk profile of Home Office buildings means we are looking for someone who has the ability to think innovatively and test the normal understanding of risk and compliance.

Job description

The Property Project Manager role supports the Home Office Property Services (HOPS) Health, Safety and Fire (HSF) Team by delivering property health and safety advice across the Home Office estate.

You will report to a G7 Health and Safety Technical Lead, and contribute to ensuring legal statutory compliance with H&S legislation, providing technical input to project teams and facility managers by supporting the assessment of facilities management and construction project documentation.

You will act as a subject matter expert in health and safety and have a strong technical understanding, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across a varied property portfolio. You will support operational effectiveness through expert advice, guidance, and oversight of compliance, legislation, and property-related risk.

The role will involve advising and influencing FM teams, project leads, and a range of internal stakeholders across pan-Home office to embed H&S best practice, meet legal obligations and implement safe processes.

You will also work closely with FM and project delivery teams, engaging with suppliers where necessary, to ensure statutory CDM and H&S responsibilities are understood and met.

You may also be part of project groups or members of communities of practice within and external to the Department.

Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing expert health and safety guidance and advice to facilities management teams and project leads including translating complex regulatory and compliance issues into accessible guidance.
• Triaging property and project related queries, answering non-complex technical questions and seeking advice on complex or highly technical questions from senior technical leads in order to provide specialist feedback.
• Supporting project delivery and FM contract oversight from a health and safety perspective providing specialist input and review.
• Interpreting test results, statutory compliance certificates and schedules, risk assessments and audit findings, to provide clear insights to operational and strategic teams.

Working pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.

Travel

There will be a requirement to travel frequently to a range of different locations over a large geographic area to fulfil the role successfully and effectively. Some overnight stays may be required. As not all Home Office locations are easily accessed via public transport holding a valid UK driving licence is preferable.

Please note candidates will be expected to hold or be working towards, or willing to work towards, Chartered Membership of IOSH.

Person specification

Essential criteria

You must be able to demonstrate:

• A strong understanding and operational application of building-related health, safety and fire legislation and statutory compliance; including relevant legislation and British Standards, such as Constructions Design and Management regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), Building Safety Act 2022, Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH)/ Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) L8 and British Standard BS55000/BS55001.
• The ability to prioritise tasks effectively in order of risk, manage a fast-paced workload and meet stringent deadlines.
• The ability to prepare reports and make well-reasoned recommendations.
• The ability to exercise good judgement, analyse situations and factor in awareness of external drivers such as the estates and health and safety strategy, and customer requirements.
• The ability to mitigate between different agendas and keep health and safety statutory compliance at the forefront of building design and use.

Desirable criteria

• Proficient in the use of IT systems, including Microsoft Word and Excel, with the ability to analyse data and present information clearly.

Qualifications

Minimum level 3 NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

1. Application – by 13th July 2026.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

• a CV.
• Personal Statement (maximum 1,000 words).
• Evidence of the Behaviour Making Effective Decisions (maximum of 250 words).

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.

For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

2. Sift – 15th July 2026.

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement, CV, and the lead Behaviour Making Effective Decisions.

Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of all the remaining elements submitted (CV and lead Behaviour). Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the initial sift will not have their remaining submitted elements scored and will only receive a sift score for that assessed at the initial sift.

3. Interview – 5th August 2026.

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviours (as listed in the job advert) based questions. All Behaviours listed in the selection process will be scored at the interview.

The interview will take place via MS Teams.

For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

Problems during the application process

If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.

Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.

Further information

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotlandon your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.

If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

Location preferences

You can select up to threelocations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred locations and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.

Reserve lists will be held for each location. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location.

Breaking Tied Scores

The behaviours have been ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores.

Standards

All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.

Additional Security Checks

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. The level of Criminal Record Check required for this role is Basic. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs

• Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
• Email : HORCCampaignTeamCorporateEnablers@homeoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Attachments

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