Lead - Digital Resourcing and Capability in Birmingham

The Digital Resource and Capability Lead will play a key role in shaping how we plan, secure and develop the people and skills needed to deliver our Digital strategy. The role sits at the heart of our Digital function, supporting both day‑to‑day operations and strategic change by ensuring we have the right capability, capacity and resourcing approach in place.

You’ll be joining a small but highly motivated team that supports the smooth running of Digital and helps create the conditions for successful delivery. It’s a varied and rewarding role, with scope to influence workforce planning, capability development, recruitment activity, financial oversight and continuous improvement across the directorate. The team are committed to creating an inclusive, collaborative and flexible working environment where people can do their best work.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders, Heads of Profession and corporate teams including HR, Finance, Legal and Procurement, building strong relationships to help solve complex resourcing and capability challenges in a practical and forward‑looking way. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of Digital resourcing and capability in a national organisation with real social purpose.

You’ll help ensure that our Digital teams have the right mix of skills, capacity and support to deliver services and change effectively, while also influencing how we build capability for the future. The role will lead on key activity across resource planning, capability development and people data, helping to identify risks, model options and support informed decision‑making. You’ll also contribute to strategic initiatives such as workforce planning, professional capability development and improving the processes, tools and insight that underpin effective resourcing across Digital.

You’ll be comfortable working with complex resourcing and capability challenges, bringing structure, insight and sound judgement to support good decision‑making. You’ll have strong experience in resource planning, forecasting and reporting, along with a good understanding of digital delivery, service teams and the Digital, Data and Technology profession.

Delivering on a mission as ambitious as ours isn’t always easy. You’ll be resilient, organised and confident working with senior stakeholders, balancing operational delivery with longer‑term improvement. You’ll be someone who can influence, challenge constructively and build credibility quickly, while staying focused on practical outcomes and the wider impact of your work.

As an experienced professional, you’ll understand how to work across teams in a collaborative and inclusive way, and you’ll be motivated by the opportunity to improve how Digital plans, develops and supports its people. Experience of working with capability frameworks, workforce planning, recruitment processes or budget and headcount management would be particularly valuable in this role.

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency believes that affordable, quality homes in well‑designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

We form long‑term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

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. Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

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.

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. 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.

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