Residential PEEPS Assurance Officer in Sittingbourne

Secondment/Fixed Term Contract until 31st of March 2027. Sittingbourne, Maidstone or Farringdon hybrid working available. Southern Housing is looking for a Residential PEEPs Assurance Officer to help ensure our Residential Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (RPEEPs) framework is effective, compliant and sustainable. Reporting to the Head of Fire Safety Risk, in this new role you will provide specialist assurance, governance oversight and professional support for the organisation's RPEEP approach. This role focuses on the background assurance rather than product delivery, ensuring design and implementation of reporting data framework, funding management, compliance and alignment with fire safety legislation, operational practice and building-level fire strategies.

What you will be doing:

• Establishing and overseeing a clear business as usual reporting system for RPEEPs, effective internal and external reporting processes to ensure compliance with the Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025.
• Auditing and reviewing the RPEEP data and process, identifying risks, trends and improvement actions through reporting.
• Working with internal stakeholders such as Housing and operational teams to support the management of complex or high-risk cases, and Transformation and Technology teams around data.
• Supporting training, guidance and competence development for colleagues involved in the process.
• Producing reports, briefings and compliance updates for senior leaders and governance forums.
• Manage RPEEP-related expenditure across the business, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with government grant assurance requirements.

This role is offered on Secondment/Fixed Term Contract until 31st of March 2027 (extension is subject to additional governance funding) and can be based at one of our main offices in either Farringdon, Croydon, Isle of Wight, Maidstone or Sittingbourne. This is a hybrid working role with office attendance 1-2 days per week. Home working days will be agreed with your line manager.

What you will need:

• Experience working in building safety, fire safety, social housing compliance or a related regulatory or assurance environment.
• Very good technical skills in Excel, data validation and visualisation tools.
• Strong understanding of governance, quality assurance and compliance-based approaches.
• Experience providing professional advice, guidance or second-line oversight rather than direct service delivery.
• Ability to analyse data, audit findings and compliance information and present them clearly to senior audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and assurance activities.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above seven criteria providing real examples.

Closing date: Wednesday 10th June 2026 at 23.59pm. Shortlisting date: from 11th June 2026. Interview dates: w/c 15th June 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

About us: At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives. A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you:

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion and Diversity: We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.