Senior Business Manager - Chief Property Office
Homes England
About the job
Job summary
As Senior Business Manager to the Chief Property Officer, your primary focus will be to aid the acceleration of Housing and Regeneration in England.
Working in the Development directorate, you will ensure the directorate is run within budget, resourced with the right skills, in the right teams, to achieve our ambitious business plan targets and deliver upon the strategic objectives set within the Strategic Plan.
Job description
You will be responsible for dealing with a diverse range of activities including, people, risk, recruitment, communications, finance, and briefings.
Working with the Chief Property Officer, managing their workload, liaising with the Senior Leadership Team and whole directorate, to communicate priorities, commission new requests and share key stakeholder insight which may affect current plans.
You will play a critical role ensuring the business of the Development directorate operates smoothly and in line with policy, process, and governance.
In addition, you will also be responsible for co-ordinating and contributing to the delivery of several ongoing change projects which will influence and enable better ways of working to support how the Development Directorate contributes to the Agency's mission.
Projects will often be cross-cutting in nature, the post holder will be required to take a proactive and collaborative approach across the Directorate, Agency, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and stakeholders across the housing industry.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of Homes England’s biggest delivery directorate, Development, with over 300 colleagues, is a national team, working regionally, driven by social purpose and duty to create more homes.
Person specification
The Chief Property Office team’s principle aim is to ensure the Chief Property Officer and their SLT are prepared and ready to accelerate housing delivery. You will be a confident multitasker, able to move through tasks at pace and forward plan, innovating our ways of working.
You will likely come from a business operations, Government private office or built environment background and are looking for a new challenge.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours is not easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good level of emotional intelligence and empathy with an understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as the Chief Property Office. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun, and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
You will understand the importance of people, how to efficiently manage and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, equitable and inclusive way. Always demonstrating best practice as a wider leader, representing the Head of and Chief Development Officer in several forums.
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.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
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.
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.