Assistant Director - Legal (Investment)

Assistant Director - Legal (Investment)

Application closing date: 27/04/2025 at 23:59

Interviews will take place: Week commencing 5th of May 2025.

About the role: Assistant Director, General Counsel’s Office

Working in a team with Head of Legal – Investment and three other senior solicitors, this is a senior management and leadership role where you will be given a rare opportunity to lead a team, growing your expertise and undertaking professional development with roles and projects that will put you at the heart of the housing and regeneration sector. 

The purpose of this role is to provide a proactive, professional legal service to Homes England in relation to a mixed caseload of transactional and governance advice relating to: 

• Development finance supporting SME developers and new entrants and infrastructure finance of loans up to £250m to support developers, master developers and landowners in unlocking strategic housing sites – including bi-lateral/syndicated loans and lending alliances.  

• Investments into joint venture and equity arrangements. 

• Grants and public funding allocations.

• Risk (legal, commercial, and financial) and mitigation strategies to maximise investment recovery. 

• Supporting projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team including demonstrating experience of debt recovery and turnaround. 

You should enjoy working in the transaction environment either directly offering advice or instructing external solicitors to ensure Homes England accesses the best advice and will be expected to be comfortable working with bank debt and secured lending.   

From day one, you’ll be encouraged, challenged, supported, stretched and listened to.  You’ll take ownership of projects to develop your skills and work with multi-disciplined teams where your advice matters and directly helps enable us to address the current housing market issues and help deliver the Agency’s mission to increase the delivery of new homes and regeneration of places.   

This is a rare chance to be part of a national organisation with real social purpose helping to deliver the Government’s ambitious housing and regeneration agenda. 

Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe. 

Full job description is attached.

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.