Housing Regulation and Partnerships Manager

Client

Local Authority

Job Title

Housing Regulation and Partnerships Manager

Pay Rate

£28.01an hour PAYE

Hours

36 Hours a week (Mon-Fri)

Duration

Initial 3 Month Contract

Location

This is a hyrid role which requires attending the office(Hounslow House) a minimum of 3 days a week

Description

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

*You will lead the development of relationships with housing partners across our borough, including private registered providers of social housing, co-operatives, charities, and other key stakeholders: to ensure that we jointly deliver our core functions in accordance with regulation; and realise our shared goals.

*You will have a broad and detailed knowledge of all aspects of housing services, from homelessness and allocations to maintenance and repairs, and in particular the requirements of the Social Housing Regulation Act 2023 in relation to housing management.

*You will line-manage directly one Housing Partnerships Assistant Service Manager and through them a team of project, delivery and improvement officers.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

*Be fully accountable for the management, planning and coordination of strategic relationships with key housing partners, delegating operational tasks to the assistant service manager, as necessary. Represent the service corporately and with partners, deputising for your manager and head of service as required.

*Establish a creative and innovative approach to building relationships, setting appropriate objectives and performance targets to define your success, using benchmarking and feedback from peers within partner organisations to reflect on your practice and learn from others.

*Lead, motivate and develop your team to build strategic partnerships with key housing stakeholders, providing analysis, diagnostic, advice and support for strategies and working practices that improve joint outputs and outcomes for residents, and provide quality assurance and evidence of efficiency and value for money for participating organisations.

EXPERIENCE:

• You are an expert in housing with significant knowledge and experience of preparing and implementing housing policies, procedures, formal reports and presentations in a local authority or registered provider setting.
• You have excellent partnership working skills, are able to navigate problem solving within large and complex organisations, taking a collaborative approach to finding solutions, while operating effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources, with experience of managing or supervising staff.

* You communicate effectively with a range of internal and external audiences, including tenants, elected members and colleagues of all levels; you will have experience of both resident engagement and engagement in a business-to-business setting.

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