Business Support Officer - Affordable Housing Grants
Homes England
About the job
Job summary
Providing administrative support to the Assistant Directors of Growth and Delivery, and working with the Director’s Executive Assistant, you will play a key role supporting the Affordable Housing Grants team to work effectively and efficiently, helping to set up better ways of working and support engagement with our external partners (Housing Associations, Local Authorities and others).
We have ambitious plans to continue to invest the £7.4bn Affordable Housing Programme, to deliver much needed affordable homes across the country in the next few years and great communication across our teams, and with external partners is critical to this success.
Job description
The role will support organising and recording meetings, co-ordinate communication updates being sent out via email, help set up events with external partners and provide support to different pieces of work that all help get new affordable housing built. You will also need to deal with finance admin (e.g. purchase orders), people work (e.g. structure charts, inductions, pulse surveys), and work with the team to support investment and programme decisions.
The right candidate will be well organised, able to prioritise tasks, be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities, be able to work well in a team or by themselves completing tasks within set deadlines. You’ll have good written and IT skills, the ability to condense information into high quality summaries and excellent attention to detail to support the work of the team.
The role covers all of England meaning you will be working closely with all the Affordable Housing Grants sub-teams based across the country, providing support remotely through Microsoft Teams and be based in one of our offices.
We believe in delivering a first-class customer service, resolving delivery issues informally wherever possible, and taking an innovative and creative approach to building more affordable housing. The Affordable Housing Grants team culture is about working in a collaborative and flexible way, valuing diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making. This also helps us manage risks and solve problems within the team.
This is your chance to help us shape and implement an approach that recognises everyone’s contribution and improves communication across the teams and with external partners.
If you enjoy working in a fast paced, high performing team with a strong social purpose to build more affordable homes then we’d like to hear from you.
Person specification
Whilst the focus of the team’s day job is to increase the delivery of affordable homes we are looking for a confident self-starter to help us to deliver first class customer service not only to our stakeholders but across the AHG sub-teams.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as collaboration with the sub-teams within Affordable Housing Grants and the wider agency is essential. You will be used to working on multiple tasks at the same time, sometimes working at pace and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.
You should have experience of supporting at Director or Assistant Director level, or equivalent, and be able to demonstrate an interest in the affordable housing sector and in supporting Homes England’s mission.
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
How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Name: Recruitment Team
Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
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
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.