Senior Manager - Community Engagement

Job summary

Community engagement and social impact have never been more important at Homes England. It’s a key part of the Homes England Strategic Plan and a crucial part of our approach to sustainable placemaking.

This exciting senior role will help us to achieve more impact with more partners in more settings, supporting increased housing delivery hand in hand with delivering locally relevant outcomes.

This role will support the Senior Manager – Stakeholder & Community Engagement in providing consistent and credible community engagement and social impact support into a growing number of complex and nationally significant housing and regeneration delivery projects right across the country. It will support with refreshing our existing approach to engagement and social impact. It will develop new thought-leadership and improve existing national tools and techniques to support regional delivery. It will play a pivotal role in ensuring residents, partners, and stakeholders are fully involved throughout the development process for new settlements, major urban extensions, and regeneration schemes, helping to shape places and deliver meaningful social value outcomes.

Job description

Working within the National Town Planning and Community Engagement Team, the role will have day-to-day responsibility for line managing 2 x Community Engagement Managers, along with planning and meeting the team’s annual performance targets. With oversight from the Senior Manager – Stakeholder and Community Engagement, the role will have responsibility for updating the existing community engagement framework, toolkits and guidance. The role will develop shared learning, including the embedding and dissemination of best practice, and should have in-depth knowledge and practical experience of the planning and development process.

The role requires an expert knowledge and experience of creating and delivering new approaches to engagement and social impact linked to the planning, housing and regeneration process. As a strategic role, it will need to update and create new credible approaches that can be applied consistently into a wide and growing range of project settings – all at different stages in the development process. It will require exceptional, high performance and the proven ability to support team members in delivering high performance and reporting evidence. Collaboration and innovation are key attributes in very fast-paced, complex and demanding settings where a clear passion and commitment for engagement and social impact will need to be demonstrated.

Person specification

If you believe that engagement and social impact should be at the heart of all housing, regeneration and planning projects early on and throughout this could be the role for you.

If you are a high performing individual, with a long track record in creating new and improving existing approaches to engagement, social impact and sustainable placemaking, please consider applying.

You'll need to be competent in directly managing staff, supporting and motivating them to achieve their own and the wider teams performance targets. The ideal candidate will also have experience in procurement and management of specialist consultants, and an ability to anticipate and respond to policy changes that influence engagement and placemaking strategies throughout the project lifecycle.

You’ll bring and apply your examples of where you have created and delivered impactful approaches to engagement and social impact on complex, fast-paced housing and regeneration delivery projects. Collaboration, innovation and evidence of going above and beyond every day will be a clear expectation. A strong awareness of best practice engagement methods, political sensitivities, and the ability to measure and report on impact will be essential.

You’ll have experience of improving existing approaches to engagement and social impact and creating new ones. You’ll represent Homes England in internal and external settings promoting engagement and social impact to colleagues and partners. A great communicator and advocate you will be able to work across the country and be experienced in reporting and capturing performance achievement and impact in a flexible, yet credible way.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level, and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a community engagement team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced engagement professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative and inclusive way.

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

Artificial intelligence

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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.

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 : Recruitment Team
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk