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.
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