Full Time / 37 hours / Permanent
Join our Housing Development Team, put your project management skills to best use and become a key part of our service.
The Housing Development Teams primary objective is to secure additional affordable housing in Leicester. Your role will be to project manage proposals to achieve this, including newbuild council homes, acquisitions, working with a range of partners to secure/enable their new supply and to investigate all possible options to deliver new affordable housing in the city.
We would love you to bring your project management experience and can do attitude to our team, to help us to address Leicester’s need for more affordable homes.
You'll be working agilely from home, however you will also use touch down desks at various locations across the city, including in the city centre at City Hall as and when required.
This is a full time role working 37 hours a week Monday to Friday.
Whilst this is a career graded post, we are, on this occasion, looking to appoint only to the top band within the career grade.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll provide decisive and effective leadership to project teams ensuring the best delivery of new affordable housing in the city, either as new council housing or in partnership with other providers and implement the Council’s key strategic priorities to provide more new affordable housing ensuring a pipeline of opportunities for the future supply of new affordable housing. To help achieve this, you’ll be assessing the development potential of existing properties and sites available for the provision of affordable housing and project managing delivery from inception to completion across a wide range of sites throughout the city.
Using your excellent communication skills, you’ll be giving developers pre-planning advice in terms of affordable housing, along with negotiating and commenting on planning applications on behalf of the Director of Housing and also identify and secure investment for affordable housing provision in the City with strategic partners, including bidding for funding packages.
What you’ll need
A background in Housing, planning, urban regeneration or a construction related discipline and your substantial experience of project management, coupled with significant relevant experience or a relevant degree or professional qualification as well as a significant amount of experience in housing development activities.
You’ll also need experience in leading and motivating project teams to initiate and deliver newbuild council housing projects and also the acquisition of private housing for use as new council homes. With excellent communication and negotiation skills you’ll explore, assess and advise on new initiatives and opportunities, including preparing and presenting reports, business cases and presentations when appropriate.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
If you would like a chat about this post, please feel free to contact
Rob Grewcock on 0116 454 1629 or on email rob.grewcock@leicester.gov.uk