Senior Manager - AH Delivery

Job summary

Working in the Affordable Housing Grant directorate, and closely with the Head of Strategic Partners, the Senior Manager will play a pivotal role in the delivery of affordable housing grant funding programmes.

You will be responsible for a portfolio of Strategic Partners delivering new affordable homes through the Strategic Partnership funding route across England, working collaboratively with them to support delivery of their affordable housing development pipelines.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing and experienced team, dedicated to partnership working to secure delivery of affordable housing across England. The team is committed to a pragmatic, creative and solutions focused approach.

Job description

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of affordable housing delivery in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional affordable housing team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of delivery challenges and will identify opportunities to increase affordable housing supply.

You will also support wider team operational activities, working closely with other teams within Affordable Housing Grants and across Homes England. There are some exciting cross cutting projects to get involved in and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day today delivery while implementing innovative solutions to unlock affordable housing supply.

Person specification

Our day job is to ensure excellent stewardship of our grant funded programmes, making sure delivery is compliant with funding conditions and supported by robust performance reporting and risk management. To do that, you’ll need to be used to spinning several plates, responding quickly where challenges arise and shape solutions.

The Head of Strategic Partners believes in working in a collaborative way and values diverse thinking to foster better decision making. You will be an enthusiastic and proactive individual, able to work across teams and with external partners to build strong relationships and deliver at pace. A curious mindset and a focus on continuous improvement and innovation are essential.

Ideally, you will have experience of affordable housing delivery as part of a development team in a Registered Provider, developer or local authority setting. You will have a good understanding of the development process from land acquisition through to planning approval, construction and scheme completion. You will also have experience of delivering or managing grant funded affordable housing projects and/or programmes and will be confident in contract and performance management. You will be comfortable supporting the Head of Strategic Partners with complex affordable housing issues to maximise affordable housing supply.

This role is a great opportunity if you are looking to gain a national level and strategic perspective of affordable housing delivery, drawing on your own experience to identify new investment opportunities and new ways of unlocking affordable housing delivery.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level, grounding your discussions in a clear understanding of both commercial and operational impacts. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging team environment and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an affordable housing professional, you’ll understand how to bring people with you and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

As part of the job role there is an expectation that some travel may be needed to attend internal meetings and external meetings with partners.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

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Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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.

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 : Deborah Bates
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk