Assistant Director- Special Projects

Assistant Director – Special Projects – Homes England

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Base pay range

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Working in a team led by Shahi Islam, our Director of Affordable Housing, the Assistant Director will play a critical role in shaping the future delivery of the flagship Social and Affordable Homes Programme as well as our wider grant management responsibilities. You will be working across our enthusiastic and highly skilled affordable housing team, who are committed to making positive change in the availability for a safe and secure home for everyone.

Shahi is dedicated to ensuring he oversees an inclusive and engaged team, resolving issues informally wherever possible and working in an open and collaborative way, valuing diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within his team.

We are seeking an experienced leader with a proven track record of working on change programmes and strategy development in the public sector. The successful person will be accountable to the Director of Affordable Housing in leading the successful delivery of an end-to-end transformation review. The team has just received one of the biggest settlements for the Programme to be delivered over 10 years. The scale, ambition and length of the programme alongside wider Agency changes to a regional model requires a deep dive into the current way of working.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of affordable housing delivery in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders across the directorate and the wider agency, you will be responsible for leading a transformational root and branch review of the programme’s systems and processes.

A bit about you…

You’ll have considerable depth and breadth of experience in leading business change reviews and delivering highly complex change programmes in the public sector.

As an experienced change professional you’ll understand how to engage with teams across a range of disciplines and communicate difficult messages with empathy. You’ll be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an affordable housing team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Public Relations and Project Management

Industries

• Housing and Community Development

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We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home-based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.