Regional Development Director
Homes England
About the job
Job summary
As a Development Director, you will lead performance and manage the delivery of an ambitious business plan across the South region to achieve the successful delivery of a major portfolio of complex programmes to de-risk, develop and dispose of land, to drive infrastructure development and enable delivery of homes across England that drive housing delivery at significant scale.
Job description
Reporting into the National Development Director, you be accountable for programme delivery through the successful leadership and coordination of multi-disciplinary teams of technical and professional specialists. As part of your role, you will oversee local strategy to work with regional markets, regeneration schemes, technical, land acquisition teams and delivery partners to identify/support solutions to operational risks aligned to strategic priorities.
A key part of the role will involve effective management and delivery of annual targets within a designated region as part of the strategic business plan to ensure that they are achieved in budget and to the required timescales.
Person specification
You will have extensive experience of working at senior level in the housing sector, with significant knowledge of technical, legal, design and sustainability standards, risk and health and safety requirements. Having a relevant degree/qualification or equivalent professional experience is essential for the role.
You'll be comfortable supporting a large team with complex project delivery issues, aiming to keep to programme and attain business plan targets. You will be proficient in working with multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
As a Development Director, you will have demonstratable interpersonal skills, with an ability to form robust and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders with professional credibility, resilience and integrity. Furthermore, you will utilise these skills to influence and shape how you collaboratively work with colleagues at all levels across the Agency, to embed the values and behaviours that underpin Homes England.
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
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Security
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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.