Working in a team with our Heads of Housing & Infrastructure Funding Portfolio Management, members of the Housing & Infrastructure Grant Portfolio Management team will play a critical role in managing a range of complex grant investments. You will be joining our experienced, multi-disciplinary team, who are committed to making positive changes in supporting housing and infrastructure delivery and unlocking hundreds of thousands of homes across England. Our Senior Managers look after some of the largest funding investments Homes England makes (up to £350m at a project level), with significant complexity, political interest and stakeholder management responsibilities. Therefore, we are looking for a mixture of technical skills, experience, stakeholder management and a calm, professional approach to getting the job done.

We are a flexible, national team that works locally; with Homes England moving to a regional delivery model, we now form part of Chief Regional Delivery Officer’s directorate’s central technical team. A key part of the role will involve working collaboratively with regional Homes England colleagues primarily across the North, as well as external partners, to drive forward our housing and regeneration priorities locally.

The Team believes in delivering a first-class customer service, resolving project delivery issues informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach. They believe in working in a collaborative and flexible way to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of infrastructure and housing delivery in a national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of complex contractual and delivery issues directly helping to create new communities.

The role will support partners and the delivery of key strategic projects around England. There are some ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance contract management with day-to-day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the funding required to unlock housing.

A bit about you…

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable supporting the Housing & Infrastructure Grants business with complex project delivery issues, aiming to ensure that projects are performing in line with expectations. You will be proficient in project and portfolio management, assurance and monitoring in the built environment with a background in capital projects and programmes in the housing and infrastructure (e.g. funding projects with viability challenges, transport, utilities, public buildings, land assembly, site remediation, communications and green/blue infrastructure) sectors and hold a relevant professional qualification.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced housing & infrastructure professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Who are we?

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.

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 that stage.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.

What we offer...

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly 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 top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.