A bit about the role...

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Place, Partnerships and Capacity team – part of the national function within Homes England’s Markets, Partners and Places (MPP) directorate. Working with our Assistant Director, Jackie Rigby, and team heads, Jamie Dumas, Lisa Cattanach and Lucy Lovatt, you will play a critical role supporting colleagues to shape how Homes England partners with local leaders across the breadth of the country to ensure they have the right skills, capacity and resources to deliver their housing and regeneration ambitions – a key element of the government’s growth mission.

As part of the team, you will be involved in important and varied pieces of work. These might include:

• Helping to shape how Homes England implements the ambitious approach to devolution set out in the English Devolution White Paper.

• Supporting the roll out and strengthening of our flagship partnership model – Strategic Place Partnerships – to Mayoral Strategic Authorities across the country, as well as bespoke partnership arrangements with other local and strategic authorities.

• Supporting the Agency’s ambitious programme of change, with a focus on enabling our transition to a more regional and place-based operating model.

• Bringing together senior colleagues from across Homes England to coordinate priorities, pipeline development and delivery on a regional footprint – through our Regional Delivery Forums.

• Delivering an annual prioritisation and regional business planning exercise to ensure the Agency targets its activity in line with national and local priorities.

• Supporting monthly performance reporting and ensuring senior leaders are well briefed and kept abreast of the Agency’s place-based activity and related policy developments.

• Supporting the continued development and roll out of the Agency’s capacity and capability offer to local government partners.

Across these and other workstreams, you’ll be working with influential stakeholders, experienced leaders and technical experts to drive lasting change – as part of an organisation with real social purpose which is uniquely positioned to shape the future of place-based housing delivery and regeneration.

A bit about you…

We are looking for someone who is passionate about housing and regeneration and who understands the role of devolution and place-based delivery in enabling national and local ambitions. An understanding of how government works and previous experience working in a housing or related policy area is helpful but not essential.

Supported by the team, you will need to be comfortable working in a fast-changing and complex environment and dealing with uncertainty and change. You will be self-driven and have the ability to cut through complex information to identify what needs doing to support senior colleagues – and you’ll be confident getting stuck in to get things done.

You will also need to be confident engaging widely with a wide variety of stakeholders at different levels of seniority within Homes England and our key partners, including at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – to ensure we have the right information and relationships to deliver our priorities.

You’ll also be committed to ongoing learning and development of your own skills and those of the wider team.

Key Skills & Experience

- Ability to draft and deliver high quality reports, briefings and communications – you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to present material clearly and concisely, with high attention to detail.

- Strong analytical skills and a strategic focus – you will be able to analyse data and cut through complex information to focus on what’s important. You’ll have the ability to identify and drive key activities in line with this focus.

- A motivated self-starter – you will have the ability to identify what needs doing to support the team, responding to a complex and changing environment.

- Ability to work at pace and manage competing deadlines – you will be able to manage and prioritise your workload effectively and focus on getting things done.

- Creative thinker – you will have the ability to identify improved ways of working to achieve our objectives. This might include increased adoption of existing or emerging technologies and better use of data.

- Stakeholder engagement and relationship building – you will be confident engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders at all seniorities, within Homes England and our key partners, to achieve our objectives.

- Working group coordination and management – you will be confident bringing together relevant colleagues to progress key workstreams, managing meetings and coordinating offline work effectively.

- Team player – you will be comfortable working as part of a flexible team adapting to changing requirements and stepping in to help out others as needed, and you’ll have a strong focus on maintaining a strong and collaborative culture both within our team and more widely.

You will also need to have a degree level or equivalent qualification.

We appreciate you may not have all of the skills and experience listed in the job description. This shouldn’t be seen as a barrier to applying if you think you fit the overall role profile, and there will be opportunities for development in the role.

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 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.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. 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.

Your application needs to be in your own words, reflect your personal understanding and experience, and must not have been generated by AI tools such as ChatGPT.

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