Growth Manager (D1811N)
Homes England
About the job
Job summary
You will be working with Andrew Kyle, our Senior Affordable Housing Growth Manager, and a small, dedicated team based in Northstowe and as part of a larger national team. The Growth Manager will play an important role in supporting the team and working with partners to develop and deliver a pipeline of new high quality affordable housing schemes to meet our ambitious plans to invest the £7.4bn Affordable Housing Programme, to deliver up to 130,000 affordable homes across the country.
This is a fixed term opportunity running to 7th April 2025 to join our highly experienced and motivated team focused on supporting the sector to increase affordable housing delivery, maximising opportunities for investment and meeting local ambitions. It is a great opportunity to develop key skills and knowledge of the sector.
The focus of engagement for the Northstowe hub is delivery across South East England, excluding London. The role involves both desk based technical grant application assessment work and outward facing engagement with our delivery partners and local authorities, requiring travel across the region, but particularly Surrey, Sussex and Kent. No two days are the same.
Job description
The team believes in delivering a first-class customer service, resolving challenges informally wherever possible, and taking an innovative and creative approach to building more affordable homes. The team works in a collaborative way, valuing diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving.
This is a rare chance to shape the future delivery of affordable housing in a fast growing, national organisation with a strong social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional Grants team you will ensure efficient, consistent and compliant affordable housing grant bids are assessed and taken through to a final decision, helping to create much needed affordable housing. You will be dealing with multiple schemes with multiple partners at a time, giving you a diverse workload and opportunity to work with many organisations.
Person specification
Our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders and you will be responsible for increasing the supply of affordable housing in collaboration with a range of key delivery partners. You will be used to spinning several plates at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.
You will have excellent communication and negotiation skills. You will be comfortable presenting information to internal stakeholders, local authorities and external housing delivery forums leading to targeted affordable housing delivery that responds to market and partner analysis. You will also have strong numeric and analytical and skills, with a good understanding of housing development and in particular the affordable housing sector, including funding models and scheme appraisal.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing and working with a broad range of stakeholders. Your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an affordable housing and investment team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
As an experienced housing delivery specialist, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues’ expectations, and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of multi-functional teams in a collaborative, inclusive way.
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, some of the key benefits include:
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.
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.
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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.
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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.