Head of Strategic Affordable Housing Delivery

Connected Local Government; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in the United Kingdom is seeking a professional to lead and accelerate the delivery of affordable homes in the borough. This role involves shaping a housing delivery framework through partnerships, evaluating models for sustainable development, and ensuring compliance and quality in projects. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record in housing development, strong communication skills, and an understanding of the funding and legislative context. Join us to make a real impact on living standards.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of enabling the development of new homes.
• Grounded appreciation of affordability requirements.
• Experience in local government or housing association.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate the delivery of affordable homes in the borough.
• Evaluate different models of delivery for sustainable housing.
• Ensure compliance and quality in housing delivery.

Skills

Communication and relationship building

Programme management

Innovative approaches to housing delivery

Understanding funding and legislative context

Job description

Redbridge is one of the most dynamic and diverse boroughs in London. It’s also a place of great contrast – where fantastic opportunities and deeply rooted challenges persist. It’s this complexity that makes this role such a great professional opportunity. It’s your chance to make a real impact and see generational change in enhancing living standards and giving people better access to affordable homes and enhanced economic opportunities.

The availability of good quality, affordable housing is an essential strategic element of our ambitions for people and place in Redbridge. This is your opportunity to accelerate the delivery of affordable homes in the borough – shaping a housing delivery framework through partnership working with the GLA, Homes England, registered providers and developers. You’ll help to unlock sites that can support sustainable development - identifying funding to make these commercially viable and identifying the right partners to deliver homes that meet the needs of our residents.

You’ll evaluate different models of delivery in pursuit of innovative approaches to sustainable and affordable housing delivery and ensure that a robust approach to programme management ensures pace of progress alongside close attention to issues of quality and compliance. A strategic perspective will be vital to enable you to make connections across the full place and regeneration agendas.

We expect that you will already have a proven track record of enabling the development of new homes as well as a grounded appreciation of affordability requirements and the challenges of meeting these in today’s market. You should have a good appreciation of the political attention and scrutiny that comes with such a role and the communication and relationship building skills required to navigate this. It’s likely that you are already working in a local government or housing association setting, with a detailed appreciation of the current funding, legislative and policy context in which we operate.

Or you can contact Steve Guest or Amy Billington at Solace in Business on 020 7976 3311 for a confidential discussion.

Closing date: 19th January

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