New Developments Manager WCC623984 in Westminster

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 36.

Contract type: Permanent.

Closing date: 20 May 2026.

Interview date: Week commencing 8 June 2026.

About Us

Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work. An example is Kate, who manages housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. She has gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles. Today, we depend on her analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes. Kate's committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders.

The Role

As a New Developments Manager, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. You'll play a central role in making sure new homes are brought into the Housing Directorate in the right way – smoothly handed over, properly set up and ready to work as part of business‐as‐usual services from day one. Working across Housing, Housing Management and Regeneration and Development (R&D), you'll help shape how new homes are specified, designed and prepared for long‐term management.

You'll collaborate with colleagues to ensure design specifications and maintenance requirements align, and that homes are delivered to the right standards, within agreed timescales and budgets. Using performance data and insight, you'll help ensure homes transition properly into systems and processes for ongoing asset management, reducing the need for future changes, bespoke maintenance arrangements or avoidable costs.

You'll also help strengthen how the service works behind the scenes, including shaping digital onboarding, supporting asset data assurance and helping develop systems and processes that improve reporting, compliance and long‐term management. Taking a lifecycle approach, you'll work with Finance, Programme and Project teams to build scenarios, set targets and ensure standards continue to improve over time.

The role involves being the link between different teams and priorities. You'll represent Housing in conversations with external teams while ensuring R&D projects are understood internally across Housing in good time. You'll provide expert advice on housing matters, highlight risks early and help ensure new homes can be integrated into the portfolio in a practical and value‐for‐money way.

Alongside this, you'll contribute to innovation in how homes are delivered, support the integration of BIM principles, and act as the new homes lead for asset data assurance. You'll also help identify investment opportunities, contribute to bids for grants and additional funding, and provide clear reports and audit trails to support senior decision‐making.

You'll bring experience of working collaboratively across teams and directorates to shape requirements for new homes, balancing resident need with the realities of ongoing repairs, servicing and maintenance. An assets‐based background in social housing will be important here, along with a good understanding of asset management standards, assurance approaches and the wider challenges facing local government.

You'll be comfortable using technical knowledge to sense check proposals, test their validity and develop alternatives where needed. Understanding component information, financial data and value for money will come naturally, and you'll be able to use appraisal techniques, business cases and scenario modelling to frame choices clearly – including whole‐life value, risk and wider social or environmental impact. A strong grasp of building safety and compliance is essential.

You'll understand the statutory and regulatory framework that shapes the sector and have experience monitoring performance against legal, regulatory and best practice requirements. You'll also bring practical experience of Building Information Modelling, including Exchange Information Requirements and BIM Execution Plans, using these to support strong asset data management and digital delivery.

Working with data will be a key part of how you think. You'll be able to work with asset, repairs and compliance datasets to define the right questions, validate inputs with specialists and turn evidence into useful insight. Keeping systems and records up to date, and making sure portfolio changes are accurately reflected in reporting, will feel like a normal part of the role.

You'll also be confident acting as an intelligent client – commissioning specialist surveys or consultancy where needed, managing contracts and projects effectively, and keeping clear, auditable decision trails. Preparing reports and briefings for senior leaders, residents and partners will be something you're comfortable with, and you'll know how to explain complex information in a way that is balanced, accessible and easy to follow.

Just as importantly, you'll bring a positive and supportive leadership style. You'll have experience leading change, working through uncertainty and taking a cross‐organisational approach in politically sensitive or similarly challenging environments. You'll be someone who can coach others, build capability and encourage continuous improvement, while bringing strong communication skills, good IT skills and an innovative approach to problem‐solving and achieving value for money.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual‐heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' background.

If you are from a Global Majority background you can self‐declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three‐quarters‐of‐a‐million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster, where our communities are at the heart of our decision‐making.

By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe. At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.

We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

To find out more about how we do this visit Equality Duties.

As a forward-thinking Council, we appreciate that people work in different ways; therefore, our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.