Senior Manager - Affordable Housing Grant

Job summary

Working in the Affordable Housing Grants directorate, you will join a team led by Caroline Cormack, Assistant Director, Client Management. You will play a key role in improving the systems and processes that support Affordable Housing Grants, working closely with agile, multi-disciplinary project and Digital support teams.

With a particular focus on Strategic Partnerships and the wider grant management lifecycle, you will work with internal and external users to understand challenges, develop practical solutions and contribute to the design of improvements and new features. Using your knowledge and experience, you will help ensure solutions are realistic, effective and aligned to business needs.

Job description

You will be joining a friendly, talented team dedicated to improving systems and streamlining business processes to drive transformation across Affordable Housing Grants. Your work will contribute directly to the successful delivery of the new £27bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP), helping Homes England to manage grant funding effectively, improve user experience and strengthen oversight across current and historical grant funding.

Working collaboratively across all parts of the Agency and with external stakeholders, you will bring together diverse perspectives and experience to continuously improve processes, influence system design, and help foster a positive, inclusive culture.

This role will also be responsible for keeping relevant colleagues across Affordable Housing Grants, regional teams and the wider agency informed and engaged in this process to ensure that solutions take into account, and benefit from diverse perspectives.

Person specification

You will use your experience and knowledge of affordable housing grant funding systems and processes to provide a valuable contribution the delivery of affordable housing now and for the future.

You will be able to understand how digital solutions affect the business, particularly the impact of any new systems or processes on Affordable Housing Grants colleagues.

In addition, you will be able to offer the benefit of your experience when exploring solutions to any issues raised by users or through the development of new functionality.

You will have project management and collaborative working skills and an ability to establish productive relationships quickly, whilst maintaining existing key relationships within the business.

Caroline values respect, honesty, and high quality communication, believing these are essential to building strong relationships and resolving issues quickly when they arise. She is committed to collaborative ways of working and values diversity of experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within the team.

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

How to apply?

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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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Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further i