Tees Valley Homelessness Strategic Lead

About us

Tees Valley is where five distinct boroughs come together to make one exceptional destination in which to invest, live, work and visit.

The Tees Valley Combined Authority has made huge progress since its creation, taking on devolved responsibilities from Government for transport, infrastructure, skills, business investment, and developing local collaborations on culture, tourism and housing.

These powers are backed up by substantial funding, a ten-year plan (approved in 2019) outlines how £588million worth of spending will support the creation of 16,785 jobs and an additional £1.48billion to the area’s economic output.

The investment plan, which supports the delivery of the Combined Authority’s Strategic Economic Plan was first launched in 2017 and includes £20million for a major transformational project in each of the five local authority boroughs, and an indigenous Growth Fund of £50million to improve and revitalise towns and communities.

We’re proud of our historical impact across the globe – from celebrated explorers and introducing the first passenger railway to providing the steel that built the modern world.

That legacy lives on today in the area’s rail and engineering industries, our deep-sea port and advanced manufacturing heart. Tees Valley is also a dynamic business location for digital and creative technologies, and a leading destination for process industry and new energy companies.

We love our diverse region, the five boroughs and their unique strengths that make Tees Valley greater than the sum of its parts, where the industrial skyline impressively frames rolling green landscapes and beautiful coastlines. A place of cultural and economic growth.

About the team

The TVCA Investment Development team provides Economic Intelligence, Policy Development and Programme & Project Development including responsibility for delivering key housing programmes such as Brownfield Housing Fund and Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant (RSPARG). We are looking for a dynamic, creative, and knowledgeable person to join the team as Tees Valley Homelessness Strategic Lead.

We are a friendly productive team working in a fast-paced environment on a diverse work programme. Working in the TVCA Investment Development Team provides many opportunities to work on innovative approaches and develop your skills.

About the role

We are seeking an ambitious, collaborative, and experienced Homelessness Strategic Lead to drive a transformative approach to tackling homelessness across the Tees Valley through the development, implementation and monitoring of a five-year Tees Valley Homelessness Prevention Framework (TVHPF) in partnership with a range of key stakeholders that is based on a robust needs and demand assessment.

Funded through the Rough Sleeping Prevention and Recovery Grant (RSPARG), this role will play a pivotal part in delivering both local and national priorities to prevent and end homelessness. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership, partnership development and system-wide coordination to strengthen homelessness prevention, improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness, and support the delivery of regional priorities. Setting the regional ambition on homelessness, in partnership with local authorities, and developing regional structures to deliver these ambitions, the successful candidate will encourage a preventative approach to homelessness and rough sleeping. They will convene homelessness and rough sleeping partners, including in the voluntary, community and faith sectors, to strengthen services across the region, and, deliver appropriate, region-specific interventions that will enhance the statutory work of local authorities and relevant public sector partners with regard to homelessness and rough sleeping.

Hosted by the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA), the role represents a unique partnership approach across the region. The post will work closely with the five Tees Valley local authority housing and homelessness services, ensuring a coordinated and collaborative response across Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees.

Working with local authorities, housing providers, health partners, voluntary and community sector organisations, funders, government agencies and people with lived experience, you will help shape and deliver a shared vision for reducing homelessness and rough sleeping across the Tees Valley. The role will act as a key link between local delivery and regional strategy, identifying opportunities for innovation, collaboration and service improvement while maximising the impact of RSPARG investment.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and influence a Tees Valley-wide approach to homelessness and rough sleeping, supporting partners to deliver the Government\'s ambition to prevent homelessness wherever possible, reduce rough sleeping, improve pathways of support, and ensure that homelessness is rare, brief and non-recurring. Through strong partnership working and strategic leadership, you will help drive lasting change for some of the most vulnerable residents across the region.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Amanda Gallagher (Project Development Manager) via phone or email amanda.gallagher@teesvalley-ca.gov.uk 07500 723292

Role Requirements

This role is an exciting and varied role in a dynamic and fast paced working environment and offers the opportunity to play a part in the future of Tees Valley. The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic team player and hold a relevant Level 3 qualification, have a strong working knowledge of the homelessness landscape including local, regional and national legislation and funding steams, along with previous experience in a similar role.

You will be organised, adaptable and good at building strong relationships with partners. We are looking for someone with strong transferable skills and experience. The successful candidate/s will be enthusiastic, collaborative and focused with excellent attention to detail and the ability to support strategic solutions, working across multi-disciplinary teams.

If you have the passion to make a lasting impact on the Tees Valley then we would like to hear from you. The most important quality that we are looking for is a drive and commitment to be the best that you can be.

You’ll be joining the team with an opportunity to grow and develop alongside your colleagues. So, while you may not feel that you meet every single element of our person specification if you’re willing and passionate in this area, we would love to hear from you.

Our Benefits

• Hybrid/Flexible working


• 27 Days annual leave, increasing to 32 days after 5 years service


• Holiday Purchase Scheme


• Local Government Pension Scheme


• Access to Private Counselling Sessions


• Access to Physio Therapy Sessions


• Specsavers Eye-Care Vouchers


• Cycle to Work Scheme


• Car Lease Scheme


• Free Parking


• On Site Café with staff Discount & more!

TVCA is proud to hold Disability Confident Leader status and is committed to continuously developing best-practice approaches to inclusion. Applicants who consider themselves to have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role will be offered an interview. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know.

Should you need the application in an alternative format, please contact the HR Team at TVCAHR@teesvalley-ca.gov.uk or call 07469 918937 so we can discuss how best to support you.

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Additional information

To find out more about our employee benefits and to learn more about our organisation please visit www.teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/jobs

Please visit the Supporting Documents section for the Job Description, Competency Framework and Benefits Booklet. Applications should include a cover letter demonstrating alignment to;

Competency Framework

Leadership & Direction - Communication & Influence - Experience & Technical - Responsibility & Accountability

Visions and Values

Open > Collaborative > Empathetic > Focused