Officer - Projects Support

Job summary

Closing Date 14th October

Interviews from mid-week commencing 19th October

2 Year Fixed Term Contract/Secondment

We are recruiting for Officer- Projects Support to join the Help to Buy Equity Loans Transformation Programme, one of Homes England’s most significant service transformation initiatives.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in a high‑profile, fast‑paced programme reshaping how one of the country’s largest residential loan portfolios is operated. You will be part of a collaborative team focused on strengthening service integrity, reducing operational and financial risk, and improving customer outcomes.

Job description

As a Officer - Projects Support you will be responsible for applying robust PMO controls, strengthen programme discipline, improve delivery control and enable informed decision making across a multi-year transformation. You will maintain the structures, data, and processes that enable effective governance, assurance, risk management, reporting and decision‑making.

You will work closely with colleagues across the Programme, as well as external delivery partners, helping ensure the programme is well‑coordinated, evidence‑based, and value‑for‑money focused.

Person specification

You will provide high‑quality PMO and delivery support across the programme, enabling effective governance and reliable decision‑making.

You will be:

Highly organised, detail‑oriented and structured in your approach.

Proactive in identifying issues, risks and opportunities for improvement.

Comfortable handling multiple priorities and working at pace.

Able to analyse information, spot inconsistencies, and communicate implications clearly.

Confident working with a broad range of stakeholders and maintaining positive working relationships.

Skilled at maintaining order using templates, processes, registers, logs, documentation and controls.

A strong communicator, both verbally and in writing, with good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 tools.

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.

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