Senior Manager Growth

Job summary

Job purpose

This role will:

1) Contribute to the national level engagement across the sector on growth, new business and engagement who will be responsible for increasing the Affordable Housing (AH) supply across the country, in collaboration with delivery partners (such as housing associations, Local Authorities, specialist and community providers and private sector property developers) to:

• Lead innovation and delivery of AH, including attracting new entrants, lead SAHP relationship with regional Growth teams and the operationalisation of new initiatives and commissions from Government.
• Increase housing supply ( in line with Government priorities for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme) by working with new and existing providers to meet housing targets
• Translate the affordable housing strategy into targeted delivery that responds to market and partner analysis
• Support the AH sector and business development colleagues with intelligence and evidence from partners
• Working with a Head of Affordable Housing Growth, be the sector lead with national representatives, public bodies and industry bodies for AH, supporting the AH lead on national engagement
• Provide AH expertise to Investment and Development teams, including being part of multi-disciplinary teams where required to increase housing supply.

2) Support the development of the single pipeline with opportunities for affordable housing across the country working closely with the wider regional teams and national teams particularly the wider Affordable Housing team, the strategy team, Markets, Partners and Places (MPP) and MPP Place.

Key relationships

• All affordable housing delivery partners including Registered Providers (RPs), Local Authorities (LAs), Specialist and Community providers and private sector
• Local Government (Local Authorities and Combined Authorities)
• Industry bodies representing affordable housing providers (e.g. NHF, CIH etc.)
• Private Sector Developers
• New entrants who have the potential to deliver Affordable Housing
• Investors
• Community Land Trusts
• Rural housing providers
• Health and Social Care bodies
• Homelessness network

Job description

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Responsible for driving growth and new business to increase affordable housing supply, including identifying new entrants to increase market resilience.
• Responsible for building the AH delivery pipeline across the country to increase housing supply, taking a strategic approach to delivery and need, based on market opportunity and intelligence, including specialist and community provision.
• Maximise the opportunities identified by colleagues to increase affordable homes and overall housing supply.
• Identify and work with regional and national industry bodies, public bodies and affordable housing providers across the country to remove barriers and unlock capacity to increase and accelerate delivery.
• Prepare and present new investment bids within delegations and governance, providing Growth Managers with leadership and technical expertise on larger and more complex proposals. Make recommendations to Head of Growth.
• Provide technical AH expertise to the business, including exploring options on land and investment products to increase supply.
• Understand the current affordable housing priorities, how this relates to places and partners, their appetite to deliver and respond to Homes England ambitions building relationships with this sector to develop investable propositions to secure
• Ambitious about exploring and implementing new approaches, demonstrating industry best practice and value for money.

Person specification

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• Knowledge of the AH sector, with an extensive network of contacts with delivery partners and industry leads.
• Understanding funding models of affordable housing delivery partners, including specialist providers and experience of AH delivery.
• Understanding viability and development appraisals, including local and regional housing markets.
• Degree level and/or professional qualification in a relevant field and/or relevant senior leadership experience in a delivery role.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Be able to work collaboratively, developing strong and effective relationships internally and externally focused on the wider mission and objectives of Homes England.
• Demonstrate positive engagement and collaborative solutions with partners and stakeholders adopting a multidisciplinary approach.

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

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Selection process details

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

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 infor