Are you looking for a new role, a new start, a new challenge? We are looking for a Junior Consultant to join our growing consultancy team.
This is a full time, permanent role with a base salary up to £30,000 dependent on experience, and significant growth potential through our consultant development pathway.
Depending on your skills and experience, you will join our consultant development pathway, delivering a range of client facing projects, and supporting the development and delivery of new business streams to meet client needs.
Alignment with our values and a can-do attitude are most important to us. We don’t mind if your background isn’t in one of our core specialisms or sectors, we will support you with everything you need to excel.
About this role
Pennington Choices is a UK wide consultancy and surveying company working across the built environment. We have a unique opportunity to join our established Consultancy team, as we embark on our next five year growth strategy.
Our Consultancy team provide specialist advice, assurance and support to our clients across the built environment including building safety, property compliance, regulatory compliance and governance, asset management, net zero and sustainability, organisational change, and health and safety.
Depending on your skills and experience, you will join our consultant development pathway, delivering a range of client facing projects, and supporting the development and delivery of new business streams to meet client needs.
This is a unique opportunity to develop your career surrounded by the very best people. We value practical hands-on experience, and our team is made up of consultants who have held executive and operational positions in housing associations, local authorities, ALMOs and contractor businesses. They have faced (and solved) the same problems as our clients.
Our consultants develop meaningful relationships with each and every client, working side-by-side with organisations to help achieve their objectives. We are also supported by our in-house technical experts, meaning we can provide end-to-end solutions for our clients.
We are committed to growth and improvement. We invest in and nurture our teams and individuals to ensure we learn and develop together and can provide real value and impact for our clients and the wider sectors we work with.
Our consultants gain significant experience and exposure through working with a wider range of organisations and sectors, driving real change and making measurable impacts.
Role objectives
- Consultancy projects – support delivery of consultancy projects across a range of clients and sectors, activities to include document and data reviews, data analysis, delivery of workshops and interviews to gather information, project and resource planning, progress reporting, report writing, triangulating evidence and presenting findings.
- Data analysis – interrogating, appraising and evaluating data as part of consultancy projects or wider business activities.
- Client engagement – building client relationships and developing strong networks with stakeholders across our core sectors. Writing high quality reports that meet client needs, and presenting to a range of stakeholders.
- Research and knowledge management – supporting research projects including scoping, planning and analysis.
- Business development – supporting the delivery of sales and marketing to secure a strong pipeline of projects, for example, development of bid proposals, participation in podcasts and webinars, and blog writing.
- Quality assurance – deliver in line with our quality assurance framework and support quality assurance audits of work carried out, to support continuous improvement and learning.
- Performance management – ensure the achievement of all agreed operational and commercial business objectives and key performance indicators (for example, team utilisation and financials).
- Personal development – take ownership of your own development pathway (with appropriate support).
Key skills and experience
Alignment with our values and a can-do attitude are most important to us. We don’t mind if your background isn’t in one of our core specialisms or sectors, we will support you with everything you need to excel.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong IT skills.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with high attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills – writer and oral.
We are willing to consider candidates who may need development in one or more of these areas.
About you
We are looking for someone that:
- Is bright, driven, high-energy, dynamic, robust and action oriented – someone who makes things happen at pace.
- Values honesty and integrity, with a strong work ethic.
- Is an analytical thinker with a strong attention to detail and high level of planning and organisational skills.
- Is a problem solver, with a can-do attitude, driven by setting challenging personal goals and wanting to succeed, combined with enthusiasm, self-motivation and determination.
- Is a team player, being open and curious and valuing people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Is customer focused, delivering successful outcomes and service excellence.
- Delivers high performance consistently, always striving to learn and improve, both personally and for the team.
Benefits and package
- Base salary up to £30,000 dependent on experience, and significant growth potential through our consultant development pathway.
- We believe that great work starts with great people and are committed to nurturing and developing our people through bespoke talent management programmes.
- When you join us, you will work alongside an incredible team of like-minded individuals who are passionate about making a difference.
- We offer flexible and remote working, alongside a range of great benefits that can be enjoyed with family and friends.
About us
Pennington Choices provides property surveying and consultancy to organisations nationwide, delivering a range of projects, technical survey services, and consultancy. Having worked with over 500 public and private sector organisations across social housing, NHS, education, and rail over the past 23 years, we’re committed to continuing our journey of growth and expansion.
The business has already been through a period of substantial growth, concluding its current 5-year business plan in April 2024 which will achieve a turnover of £17.5m. A further 5-year plan through to 2029 is being developed with a projected growth to £40m.
At the heart of what makes Pennington Choices special is our people. We live by our values of being fun, resilient, brave and treating each other with respect. We also know there’s more to life than work, which is why we will encourage you to stay active, nurture your mental health, and create a fulfilling work/life balance.
