Engineer Grade I – Service Delivery and Development Team (3-Year FTC)
About Your New Employer
- Cuan is Ireland’s newly established statutory agency addressing Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (DSGBV) since 2024.
- As a central part of Ireland’s Third National Strategy on DSGBV, Cuan is responsible for co-ordinating, monitoring, and delivering both policy and direct services to support victims nationwide.
- You will join a forward-thinking, impactful organisation committed to equality, evidence-based transformation, and collaboration with government, housing, and community partners.
About Your New Job
As Engineer Grade I in the Service Delivery and Development Team, you will:
- Lead, project manage, and coordinate a national pipeline of domestic violence refuge and safe home accommodation projects, ensuring delivery against ambitious government targets—including doubling refuge capacity and expanding safe home provision.
- Oversee programme delivery from project planning to completion, including stakeholder engagement across the Department of Justice, Housing, Local Authorities, NGOs, and Approved Housing Bodies.
- Develop and implement robust reporting frameworks, Key Performance Indicators, and risk management strategies while managing budgets and cost controls.
- Collaborate with and support local project teams, ensuring projects reflect the needs of victims and service providers.
This role includes blended working (typically 2 days onsite), and national travel is required.
What Skills You Need
- Degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Significant construction project management experience in social housing, ideally within the local authority sector and across multiple authorities.
- Demonstrable background working with government agencies, local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, community organisations, and NGOs—ideally on DSGBV or social housing projects.
- Strong familiarity with the Irish planning, housing regulatory landscape, Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF), and Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS).
- Excellent relationship-building, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Computer literacy including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, with willingness to upskill as needed.
- Willingness and ability to travel.
Desirable: Experience in policy development or implementation, leading teams at an appropriate level, and working with senior executives or boards.
What's on Offer
- Salary: €86,644–€104,449, with increments in line with Civil Service policy.
- Benefits: 30 days annual leave, blended working arrangements, flexible/family-friendly policies, civil service pension, training and development support.
- Career Path: Contribute to an important national strategy, with unique project variety and the opportunity to influence policy and service standards at a new national agency.
What's Next
Apply now by completing the official application form via Cuan's online portal (see closing date and process in the competition booklet). For queries, contact publicsector@sigmar.ie.
Closing date for applications: 8 June 2026 at 3pm.
