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Senior Housing Development & Supply Officer x 3
Hounslow (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
No DBS check required
£51,093 - £54,129 Grade: PO6
36 hours per week
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these on our website.
About the Role
Senior Housing Development and Supply officer x 3
We are looking for candidates with the skills and experience to contribute to the delivery of the Council’s ambitious 1000 new Council homes. If you have a proven track record in delivery of new housing with an enabling or construction background, strong organisational skills in project management and have excellent time and communication skills, then we would love to hear from you!
Senior Housing Development and Supply officer (pre-planning) x 1
The post holder will work closely with the Programme Delivery Manager to support Registered Providers gain planning permission, through to completion of units. You will be required to have excellent project management and the organisation skills to ensure sites are delivered within deadlines. Communication skills are essential to present progress to senior managers and Councillors. It would be desirable for the candidate to have experience delivering complex small sites.
The post holder will be responsible for securing affordable housing through negotiation on developer led sites. Candidates should have extensive knowledge of the planning process and affordable housing policy, from a national to a local level. Candidates should have experience in reviewing s106 agreements working closely with solicitors.
Senior Housing Development and Supply officer (post-planning) x 2
We are looking for candidates with the skills and experience to contribute to the delivery of the Council’s ambitious 1000 new Council homes. Located within our Housing Delivery Team you will have the opportunity to project manage a range of new initiatives from inception onto to completion and final account. If you have strong organisational skills in project management and have excellent time and communication skills, then we would love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project manage scheme from inception through to planning approval.
2. Project manage post contract Council development sites and manage project budgets effectively.
3. Negotiating delivery of affordable housing through the planning process and s106 agreements.
4. Working in collaboration with other Council departments, and senior management to ensure that services are joined up and are delivered to meet the housing needs of the Borough.
In your application, please specify if you are interested in the pre-planning or post planning-role.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
The Housing Development and Supply team has a proven track record and long-standing commitment to the delivery of affordable housing and is at the of the new era of building new Council Housing. With the Housing Delivery Plan 2022-2026 outlining a pledge to build 1,000 new Council homes and a goal to bulk purchase an additional 1000 homes for Council housing, we are looking to recruit x3 positions to help deliver our ambitions.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love for you to put in an application:
1. Experience of project managing delivery of new housing, preferably within a social housing context
2. Strong communication and negotiating skills
3. Self-motivated with a ‘can-do’ attitude
4. Comprehensive understanding and experience of good housing design, development and planning issues such as Affordable Housing policies.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Job Description.
Professional qualifications:
Planning/Planning policy/Development background is essential.
We value diversity in its broadest sense. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves, give of their best and reach their full potential. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to better understand our communities and deliver the best services for our residents. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background. We want to harness the mix and ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes. We will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.
This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.
When Interviews Will Be Held and Who to Contact
If you would like an informal conversation regarding the above roles, please contact Sukhi Randhawa - Principal Development Manager or Geraint Nutt – Programme Delivery Manager.
Sukhi.Randhawa@hounslow.gov.uk
Closing Date: 13 September 2024
Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams week commencing 30th September 2024.
Role Profile - Senior Housing Development & Supply Officer.pdf
