About the job

Job summary

Homes England is evolving to become an agile, service-focussed Agency with a strong social purpose supporting some of the highest priority work for the government’s agenda to improve lives and level-up society.  
Our vision is to digitally enable how Homes England delivers its priority outcomes which can adapt and respond to the changing needs of our users, the sector and partners we work with.  We are committed to transforming the services we provide and improving the experience for our internal and external users.   
We are also investing in our technology. By modernising our estate and reducing our legacy and technical debt to make services sustainable, we will transform the way Homes England uses technology, data and digital to deliver great services.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Digital leader with a proven track record in driving change to own our digital portfolio and support the Agency to deliver user-centred products and services. 
As part of the Digital leadership team, this role is crucial in shaping our digital future. You will be leading a large team of enthusiastic and talented people who are committed to making positive change in how services are delivered at Homes England. 
We believe in delivering first-class services by taking an innovative creative approach and working in a collaborative way to foster good decision making. 
This is a rare chance to shape the future of Digital in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.

Person specification

You will be able to shape direction from a place of ambiguity and emerging maturity by working at pace and managing competing deadlines to deliver high quality outcomes. 
By demonstrating strong leadership and coaching you will be able to build a team with the right skills and capabilities for our digital future. 
With high levels of emotional intelligence, you will provide the right conditions to empower your team to deliver successful outcomes. 
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 Team Digital.

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 process including 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.