Head of Housing Strategy

This Head of Housing Strategy role will give you huge influence on Salford’s housing market and on the health, happiness and life chances of local residents. It’s your opportunity to be a driving force of positive change and real world impact and truly deliver ‘a good home for all’.

Salford has much to celebrate as a city, from new homes and employment opportunities to its vibrant cultural scene. Yet there is still huge potential to build on past successes – and find new and innovative ways to improve residents’ lives. Housing is a key priority. This role is the strategic housing lead for our authority – and comes with responsibility for new social and affordable homes in the city, strategy and policy development, contract management and for supporting the ambitions of the Council’s associated housing company, Derive. Your leadership talents will ensure we deliver both value for money and the desired outcomes of strategic investments and plans.

You will oversee the production and monitoring of all the city’s housing and homelessness related strategies, Tenancy Policy and the Council’s Allocations Scheme. You will also have a key role in the development of regeneration projects across the city, ensuring that the housing needs of residents in the city are reflected in the relevant masterplans and partnership agreements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Implementing and monitoring the service level agreement between the City Council and Derive.
• Continuing to maximise the delivery of affordable housing across the city including through grants, S106 and other funding opportunities.
• Ensuring housing contracts meet the requirements and the expectations of the client, users and stakeholders.
• Providing assurance that relevant regulatory and legislative requirements are being met.
• Overseeing the completion of the regeneration projects such as Pendleton and ensuring that the Pendleton PFI Contract is delivered in line with agreed contract requirements.
• Ensuring the requirements of Part IV, Domestic Abuse Act are achieved.
• Shaping housing and homelessness related strategies that take into consideration wider local, regional and national priorities.
• Developing and maintaining a workforce with the capacity to deliver goals.
• Fostering a people-centered and values-based culture learning culture that promotes innovation in service delivery.

About you

You will bring:

• A relevant qualification to meet the requirements of the Regulator of Social Housing’s Competence and Conduct Standard (support will be provided to meet any gaps and knowledge in learning).
• Operational and strategic management experience of delivering high quality housing services across the portfolio in a multi-agency context.
• Experience of policy development, implementation and successful evaluation of strategic and operational housing delivery in a local government context.
• Knowledge of the current strategic and operational landscape and its likely impact upon the design, development and delivery of housing services.
• Strong financial acumen and reasoning working with large complex budgets.
• Evidence of applying risk management in setting strategy and managing principal risks to achieve objectives.
• The ability to develop strong relationships with leaders from a range of public and private sector organisations locally, regionally and nationally.
• The ability to model and demonstrate the Council’s values and leadership behaviours.

As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this.

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