Housing Development Officer in Leicester

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Would you like to put your project management skills to best use? Do you want to make a difference and one you can see? Then come and join our Housing Development Team as a Housing Development Officer. We'd love you to bring your project management experience and 'can do' attitude to Leicester, to help us to address Leicester's need for more affordable homes. The Housing Development Team's 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.

You'll have flexibility in hybrid working being both office based, at City Hall or working remotely from home to suit your needs. However, under our New Ways of Working Policy you'll be required to work from a non-home location a minimum of two days a week.

As Project Manager, you’ll provide decisive and effective leadership to project teams, ensuring the best delivery of new affordable housing in the city via new council housing and in partnership with other providers. You’ll implement the Council’s key strategic priorities to provide more new affordable housing and lead on site appraisals to ensure a pipeline of opportunities for the future supply of new affordable housing.

Your role will include identifying, investigating, and assessing the potential of existing properties and sites available for the provision of affordable housing and giving developers pre-planning advice in terms of affordable housing. Using your excellent communication skills, you’ll negotiate and comment on planning applications on behalf of the Director of Housing, whilst identifying & securing investment for affordable housing provision in the City, with strategic partners, including bidding for funding from Homes England.

With your substantial experience of project management coupled with significant relevant experience and/or relevant degree or professional qualification, you’ll use your significant experience in housing development activities to lead and motivate project teams in initiating and delivering newbuild council housing projects and the acquisition of private housing for use as new council homes.

Your excellent communication and negotiation skills will see you exploring, assessing and advising on new initiatives and opportunities, including preparing and presenting reports, business cases and presentations when appropriate. Your background in Housing, planning, urban regeneration or a construction related discipline, and your knowledge of problem solving, and analytical skills will enable you to assess sites and innovative proposals.

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.

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.