Senior Manager - Historical Grants (4325)

Job summary

Closing Date: 21st July

Interviews from week commencing 3rd August

Reporting in to Sammy White, Head of Provider Services Operations and working alongside Alison Binalle, Senior Manager in the Historical Grants team, you will join a small, experienced team of seven who are committed to the long-term stewardship of historic capital grant that supports thousands of affordable homes all over England. The team is part of the Homes England Affordable Housing Grants directorate, responsible for delivery of 1,000s of affordable homes every year.

This is a vital role that ensures our grant is always put to good use through recycling it into new affordable homes and, when applicable, that the correct grant is recovered by Homes England to be used again to deliver the homes needed. An annual review is undertaken of the previous financial year's grant transactions, which requires close working with registered providers, completing reconciliations and undertaking analysis to be reported to the Senior Leadership Team.

Job description

Working closely with the Senior Manager and Head of Provider Services Operations, you will be responsible for a varied caseload, which includes examining business proposals put forward by providers of affordable housing. The role can be fast paced, working closely with our internal delivery and legal teams, as well as externally, with lawyers and our providers; ensuring Homes England has the appropriate safeguards over its grant funding.

The post holder must have a strong operational focus as well as the ability to highlight matters that have strategic implications for grant recovery and grant recycling, contributing to solutions, escalation and presenting recommendations. Team-working is vital so that our partners get a true end-to-end service, working closely with key stakeholders across the whole of Affordable Housing Grants.

You will hold line management responsibility and are required to support and develop team members with process, policy and regulation implementation, in an ever-evolving regulated sector.

You will help to deliver a first-class customer service and make positive changes to the quality of data held and how it is used. Working in a collaborative and flexible way that values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

Person specification

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 in the historical grants team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

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, inclusive way. You will have great attention to detail and a natural curiosity to investigate historic policy and programmes. Due to the complex and challenging case load, you will need to be a confident communicator, attending in person meetings, presenting cases to key internal stakeholders and consulting with solicitors.

Your ability to analyse data from various sources is key, as is accuracy and quality of work. You will be able to demonstrate your analytical and problem-solving skills and be a fast learner with a “can do” attitude towards work and overcoming challenges.

The historical grants team are based in a number of Homes England offices. Therefore it is essential that they must be able to travel, to ensure their team are supported.

A legal qualification is not required but it is essential that the postholder has prior experience within the housing sector and operationally managing high-value and high volume. You will have a good understanding of Affordable Homes grant and the importance of the long-term stewardship and security of public funds.

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.

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Selection process details

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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

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.

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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

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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

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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