About the job

Job summary

The Assistant Director for Affordable Housing Programme Management 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. 

 

You will lead a large team responsible for the strategic and operational framework for grant investment in affordable housing acting as the guardian for the programme. You will provide stewardship internally and externally to drive successful programme and performance management. You will work flexibly and collaboratively, taking a considered, innovative and creative approach to support the programme to deliver successfully.  

Job description

You will hold a key influencing and engagement role with Government departments, business stakeholders and the wider housing sector. You will be a confident and strategic communicator and be highly skilled in building close collaborative relationships. As part of the Affordable Housing team you will be part of a culture that values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making, problem solving and inclusion. 

 

This is a huge opportunity to be involved in the design and delivery of key strategic projects. The role will allow you to make a significant contribution towards shaping the future of affordable housing delivery in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.  

 

Person specification

 

You’ll bring significant experience of strategic programme and performance management with the ability to manage large budgets and multiple projects.  You will be able to show your strong leadership skills in both people and project management and be able to balance multiple and changing workstreams often to tight deadlines. You will be a strategic thinker being able to design and develop new initiatives and swiftly operationalise them. 

 

You will have a strong background in business development and planning being able to progress ideas to action with excellent project management skills and produce high quality business and delivery plans. With this you will be able to manage a large volume of internal and external stakeholders at a senior level and be able to navigate both organisational and Government priorities.  

 

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 strong understanding of the key current policy issues effecting affordable housing and regeneration in England. You'll be comfortable supporting the sector, both new and existing partners, with the operational requirements linked to grant funding and with complex delivery issues. 

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

Interview process including OPQ

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.