Housing Development Officer - 13150_1768987469

We have an exciting opportunity for a Housing Development Officer to join the Housing and Homeless Commissioning and Contracts team. The successful applicant will support our Commissioning and Contracts Officers to procure, contract manage and support process development and payment of several suppliers and providers working to deliver the outputs and objectives of key strategic plans such as the City of Edinburgh Council's Local Housing Strategy and Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan.

The post holder is crucial to support delivering the key objectives of the service and prevent homelessness in Edinburgh. You will have the opportunity to work with internal and external multi-disciplinary teams to find the best solution through local and national contracting agreements to deliver for our front-line services.

A large part of the successful applicant's workplan will be focused on supporting the Housing contracts team to embed new processes and procedures in relation to invoicing and payments for our contractors and providers. The successful candidate may also be expected to support their peers in the delivery of the service workplan in relation to capital works, repairs and homelessness commissioned service delivery.

We are looking for candidates who can be innovative in their approach and have a desire to assist and support providers to meet the needs of our council tenants and landlords whilst meeting the statutory requirements of the Council. The successful candidate will have the relevant qualification(s), have knowledge or ability to learn end-to-end contract management processes and procedures.

The successful candidate would be suited to the role with a good understanding of contract administration, public sector business support or experience of banking and payments services. You should be confident in working with colleagues from our procurement and finance teams and will have the ability to work collaboratively with suppliers and providers if needed.

If you are someone who enjoys new opportunities and are interested in working in a fast-paced environment supporting front line services and promoting best practice, we would love to hear from you. We strongly encourage any interested applicant to contact the hiring manager in advance to seek further understanding of the day-to-day role.

You must also have strong skills demonstrating our behaviours - respect, integrity and flexibility as well as experience of maintaining and contributing to a high performing culture, driving change and supporting service delivery.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring our behaviours of respect, integrity and flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on our behaviours web page.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Happy to talk flexible working.