About the job

Job summary

Working in a team with Ken Glendinning, Director of Acquisitions and Partnering,  the Assistant Director of Acquisitions role will play a critical role in Development. You will lead a small team of talented and experienced people, who are committed to making positive change across England.

Job description

Ken Glendinning is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, taking an innovative and creative approach to housing and brownfield issues. He believes in working in a diversity, experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

The Assistant Director role supports the agency's development expertise to manage the complexities of large-scale growth and brownfield regeneration projects. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact for the Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land (BIL) programme and contribute to its success by providing leadership, expertise, and support across key areas of operation.

As one of four Assistant Directors within the Acquisitions & Partnering leadership team, this role has a national BIL related remit as well as local relationship with the regional management teams, each comprising around 6-10+ full-time employees. The position holds joint responsibility for managing BIL acquisition budget and supports the implementation of Homes England’s land acquisition strategy. This involves efficient use of budgets, resources, and land to meet the Government’s goals of increasing new home supply. The Assistant Director manages BIL acquisitions of both national portfolios, land assembly and single sites, ensuring seamless coordination between other acquisitions and delivery functions.

This role will not be programme specific and will operate flexibly to ensure agility in response to BIL's needs and the wider needs of the agency. 

Person specification

You'll be comfortable supporting the wider Development team with complex site and relationship issues, aiming to convert new and existing pipeline opportunities to create homes and jobs. 

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

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.

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.

These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.

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.

If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.

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Selection process details

One stage interview process

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.