Area Manager in London

Contract details: One year fixed-term or secondment.

The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities. Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.

Do you want to be part of the team solving London’s Housing crisis? The Area Teams lead the Mayor’s relationships with investment partners, including local authorities and London’s largest (and smaller) affordable housing providers. The teams negotiate complex investment models with developers to support new and scalable ideas to grow housing delivery.

You will join the team as we start to allocate to our new 10 year, £11.7bn affordable homes programme. We have exciting opportunities to join the area teams to help achieve the priorities set out in the Mayor’s Housing Strategy and London Plan by supporting the delivery of affordable housing. As an Area Manager, you’ll work closely with the GLA’s investment partners, utilising your problem solving and negotiation skills to deliver the affordable housing programmes. You’ll manage a portfolio of housing developments to achieve Mayoral targets for new homes; and ensure developments meet the Mayor’s requirements for design quality. You’ll be supporting your partners through the tail end of an existing programme and through the launch of a new one.

What your day will look like:

• Assessing and progressing funding bids from partners on GLA OPS and scrutinising financial information provided.
• Preparing reports to senior managers to inform decisions.
• Monitoring the delivery of existing schemes, supporting partners to deliver projects to time and budget, closely monitoring delivery challenges.
• Arranging and following up quarterly meetings with investment partners.
• Taking up opportunities to work on specific projects related to progressing a complex scheme or policy area.
• Collaborating with colleagues in other GLA teams on cross-cutting issues.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:

• Appropriate experience of programme or project management, ideally including the assessment of funding bids.
• Building and Managing Relationships (Level 2).

This role is based at City Hall, Royal Docks, Kamal Chunchie Way, London, E16 1ZE or London Fire Brigade’s Head Office (Union Street SE1 0LL).

If you have questions about the role, the hiring manager Virgil Rappa will be happy to speak to you.

Equality, diversity and inclusion:

London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.

Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme, they will automatically be invited to interview. Please note, should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible.

Additional Information:

Please note, all candidates will need to confirm that the information provided in this application form is true and correct. Should a candidate deliberately give false information, including the use of AI software, they understand that this would disqualify them from consideration.

GLA staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. In addition to a good salary package, you will be paid every four weeks, providing frequent salary payments. We also offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme.

The GLA is proud to be a Level 2: Disability Confident employer. We are committed to becoming a more inclusive and accessible organisation, and creating a truly inclusive and accessible workplace and culture for our disabled staff.