About the job

Job summary

The Assistant Director for Affordable Housing Delivery will play an important role in the Affordable Housing Grants team. Working closely with the Director of Affordable Housing, you will be joining a large and highly experienced team, who are committed to the delivery of more affordable housing.

 

Job description

You will lead a team responsible for the delivery and contract management of multi-billion-pound affordable housing grant programmes and ensure that delivery is managed to target and within programme parameters. You will work flexibly and collaboratively to drive successful performance and take a considered, innovative and creative approach to complex programme and delivery issues. 

 

You will manage a significant volume of relationships with delivery partners and the housing sector, working closely with both cross Agency and Government departments. As part of the Affordable Housing team you will be part of culture that values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making, problem solving and inclusion. You will balance day to day delivery whilst also supporting the development of the Affordable Housing offering to the sector.

This is a huge opportunity to be involved in the delivery of Affordable Housing in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.  

Person specification

You’ll bring significant experience of leading large and diverse teams and projects across a range of work streams, working in a collaborative and inclusive way. With this you will have strong background in delivery and programme management and a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes.

 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing diverse stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational requirements linked to affordable housing delivery. You'll be comfortable supporting the sector with complex issues, aiming to support partners deliver their programmes.

 

You will enjoy working within a fast-paced environment, turn around objectives with efficiency and accuracy and handle changing and expansive portfolios. You will also be an excellent communicator and be able to negotiate and persuade with confidence. 

 

You will have significant experience and expansive knowledge of the affordable housing sector and possess a sophisticated understanding of the diverse range of partners involved in the delivery model particularly their development function.

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.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Interview based approach with OPQ.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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.