Dublin City Council advertises jobs with new unit to rejuvenate city centre, with salaries starting at €79,000
Dublin City Council (DCC) is hiring six people for a new project management unit as it sets about trying to rejuvenate the city centre.
The council is looking for a range of positions on two-year contracts, sitting under the city co-ordination office, to drive the revitalisation of the city centre.
Roles include a programme manager, whose job it will be to establish and develop the unit, along with a senior executive architect and a communications and marketing manager.
The council is also hiring a senior executive planner, head of finance and project manager, with salaries starting at €79,000 and stretching to just under €110,000.
The unit will deliver placemaking projects in advance of the establishment of a council-owned specified purpose vehicle (SPV) company as the project is scaled up.
According to DCC, the new roles represent the “first step” in the realisation of the government’s roadmap for the capital, based on the findings of the Dublin City Taskforce Report.
The forthcoming SPV is in the vein of a similar initiative set up by Limerick City and County Council, which has driven regeneration across the city since its establishment in 2016.
It was proposed as part of sweeping changes to DCC’s dereliction-tackling mechanisms proposed by a council working group that aimed to tackle vacancy, dereliction, and rejuvenation issues in the capital.
These plans were approved by councillors at the end of September, and involve a three-year pilot to map, plan and revitalise North Frederick Street and Middle Abbey Street.
The SPV, set to be legally incorporated in 2026, will then scale up these solutions city-wide. Ongoing and completed projects will be transferred to the new body in 2027 and 2028.
Once the SPV is in place, it will acquire and redevelop vacant and derelict sites throughout the city. It is envisioned that council oversight will ensure that its activity remains in the public interest.
On top of rejuvenating existing buildings, the SPV will also act in a ‘placemaking’ capacity, taking on mixed-use redevelopment projects that encourage wider regeneration.
To finance its activities, it will use what is known as a ‘revolving fund’ model, recycling the proceeds of one project – for example, rent from a house that had been derelict – to fund other rejuvenation projects.