Assistant Director of Housing

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Tempting Recruitment Full time

Tempting Recruitment are working alongside our client, a LOCAL AUTHORITY, who are looking to recruit an experienced Assistant Director of Housing to join their team based in the London area.

**JOB DETAILS**
- PAY RATE: £652.90 per day Umbrella
- WORK TYPE: Temporary
- WORK PATTERN: Full Time
- LOCATION: London

**JOB SUMMARY**

The Housing Service continues to face major operational challenges, notably its HRA finances, repairs service, lack of digital interface with residents, and need to invest in its stock.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
The duties and responsibilities of the role will include:

- Build and maintains effective services, ensuring tenant satisfaction is at the heart of continuous improvement in Housing.
- Develop the full range of managerial and professional skills and knowledge to satisfy the requirements of the post.
- Support and develop partnership working, including acting as an effective ambassador and advocate across the Council and with external organisations.
- Be fully conversant with relevant statutory provisions and take a strategic view of the Council’s constitution, processes, and procedures.
- Ensure timely and relevant advice and information is given to Members generally and build effective working relationships with the Leader and relevant Portfolio Holders.
- Take individual and collective professional responsibility for championing the Council's diversity agenda, proactively implementing initiatives which secure equality of access and outcomes and commit to continually developing personal understanding of diversity.
- Be prepared to attend evening and weekend meetings (e.g. committees & events within the borough) and from time to time work hours required to meet pressing deadlines that may exceed contracted hours.
- To support the business to deliver the proposed future structure and operating model for housing services to ensure efficiency and contribute towards the overall HRA savings/income target by April 2025.
- HRA Budget Management Work closely with Finance and Economy colleagues to ensure that HRA income, spending and efficiencies is suitably forecasted, and that necessary savings are prioritised and made.
- Ensure alignment to MTFS and support the HRA budget task and finish group.
- Project manage the most substantial lines including service charge equalisation, renegotiated internal charges, and fundamental review of capitalisation.
- Ensure that full briefing and deliverability on service charge equalisation is available.
- Ensure consultancy advice on efficiency opportunities from the savings plan is aligned to the delivery plan Housing Management
- To support the business to review out-of-hours contract arrangements to eliminate failure demand and to provide a more reassuring and responsive service.

**THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE**
- Educated to at least first-degree level or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience leading design and delivery of complex corporate policy that align and support organisational strategy.
- Expert understanding of the key issues facing local government, the wider public sector and partners and of local, regional and national policy.
- Ideally experience of working with enterprise-level PMO or demonstrable ability to become a leading expert for the Council.
- Strong leadership skills and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams, identifying priorities, objectives, timescales and resources and be responsible for its performance and outputs.
- Demonstrable ability to influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed managed organisation, building strong relationships across organisational boundaries to drive change.
- Driven and self-motivated to complete work to deadlines and independently while also being integral to the team.
- Exemplary written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to analyse information and data to present complex information and recommendations clearly.
- Understanding of established project management lifecycles, methodologies, governance and frameworks. You may have a qualification in recognised methodologies e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, P3O, M_o_R, APM, Praxis etc.
- Project, programme and portfolio management experience including reporting on robust governance arrangements, gate processes, risks & issues management and financial information.

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