Salary: £78,750 per annum plus excellent benefits
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week
Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you an experienced senior leader in Housing? Then this may be the role for you.
Goodman Masson are proud to be exclusively partnering with whg to recruit their next Assistant Director of Housing. In this role you will lead our brilliant Community Housing, Community Safety and Neighbourhoods teams. In this role you will be accountable for ensuring that services meet our legal and regulatory responsibilities, achieve key performance indicators, drive continuous improvement, deliver key strategic priorities and ensure effective collaboration across the organisation and externally with partners to achieve our aims and objectives.
Sound like the role for you? Then keep reading...
Main job responsibilities:
Be an effective senior leader within the Housing Directorate; support the Director of Housing and Customer Services and work closely with the Assistant Director of Housing - Customer to ensure services are aligned and challenges are dealt with quickly and appropriately.
Lead and be accountable for continuously improving the strategic approach to Community Housing, Community Safety and Neighbourhoods.
Lead and be accountable for ensuring that the key principles of the Community Housing Model are embedded and delivered; use robust data analysis to proactively identify where the model might not be being delivered as intended and act promptly to remedy.
To lead and support the implementation of key strategic business change initiatives, such as Customer First. Use data to effectively oversee and manage the change.
Ensure resources are managed effectively; flex resources between and within teams where appropriate and in response to emerging priorities. Be able to demonstrate through the use of data the effectiveness of all areas of operation
Be accountable for meeting all targets and continually drive improvements; be alert to changing external factors which could impact adversely on our ability to meet our targets and proactively plan our response to these threats.
We're looking for someone who has:
- A qualification to degree level and experience of managing a housing team at a senior level.
- Level 5 certificate in Housing
- Knowledge of Statutory and Regulatory requirements, relevant to housing management.
- A proven track record of delivering value for money, delivering cost reductions whilst improving service delivery.
- Demonstrable experience of successfully implementing change and efficiency programmes in the housing arena.
- Experience of developing strategies and policies.
- Proven leadership skills that get the best out of colleagues.
- Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively.
- Strong influencing, advocacy and negotiation skills.
- Self-awareness, empathy, respect and integrity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
What's in it for you?
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.
We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.
About us
It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.
We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.
We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.
Closing Date: 16th August 2024
Interview Date: 3rd September 2024
For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com
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In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.