Senior Geospatial Solutions and Engagement Manager

Job summary

As Senior Geospatial Solutions and Engagement Manager, you will play a leading role in helping Homes England unlock the value of geospatial data, analysis and technology. Acting as a primary link between the Geospatial team and colleagues across the agency, you'll build strong relationships, understand business challenges and identify opportunities where geospatial intelligence can improve decision-making and support delivery outcomes.

Job description

This is an outward-facing role that combines stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking and geospatial expertise. You'll work closely with teams across Homes England to understand their priorities, shape innovative solutions and ensure geospatial capabilities are embedded into the way we work. You'll also lead engagement with key internal teams and delivery partners, ensuring effective collaboration across the systems, services and capabilities that underpin Homes England's geospatial function.

Alongside this, you'll act as product owner for a range of geospatial products and services, ensuring they remain focused on user needs and continue to deliver value. Working with technical specialists, you'll help shape and prioritise improvements, champion innovation and support the continued growth of geospatial capability across the organisation.

Person specification

You'll be a strong relationship-builder who enjoys working with people, understanding challenges and identifying opportunities for improvement. Comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels, you'll be able to translate business needs into practical solutions and demonstrate how geospatial intelligence can help teams achieve their objectives.

You'll have a good understanding of geospatial technologies and the value they can bring to organisations, along with the ability to work effectively with technical specialists to deliver successful outcomes. Equally importantly, you'll be curious and, looking beyond immediate requirements to identify opportunities where geospatial capabilities can create wider organisational benefit.

You'll be an excellent communicator with strong problem-solving and influencing skills, capable of bringing together technical and non-technical audiences around a common goal. Experience leading people, developing others and fostering a collaborative team culture will also be key to success in the role.

We're looking for someone who can act as an ambassador for geospatial across Homes England, championing its use, building strong partnerships and helping ensure geospatial insight continues to play an increasingly important role in delivering our mission. If you're passionate about connecting people, technology and data to drive better outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

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?

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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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