Regeneration Manager

**Regeneration Manager**

**Location: Walsall, West Midlands**

**Salary: £51,889-£54,474 per annum plus excellent benefits**

**The Vacancy**

**Contract: Full Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week (hybrid working minimum 3 days in office)**

**Closing Date: 13 March 2023**

**Interview Date: 24 March 2023**

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Regeneration Manger, interested?

whg has a varied asset portfolio that includes a large number of disused garage sites and pockets of need or opportunity within existing estates that provide regeneration or densification development opportunities. Our aim being to ensure that regenerationneeds are addressed and that we maximise unused assets to create more affordable homes with optimum social impact. In order to support the delivery of this emerging but ambitious programme, we are looking for a skilled and experienced Regeneration Managerto join the team. This role will be responsible for the effective management of schemes from inception to entering into a build contract.

**Main job responsibilities**:

- You will manage the delivery of three workstreams - 1) small sites, 2) estate-based needs and 3) any adhoc site assembly (with regeneration needs) from local authority partners.
- Ownership of the commercial aspects of the schemes from inception to completion.
- You will collate information that will support the identification and selection of developable sites (obtaining survey information, reports on title, constraints and other factors).
- You will lead customer engagement and consultation needs with support from our Customer Voice and Community Housing teams.
- You will be conversant with the requirements of Homes England’s Capital Funding Guide and ensure compliance, as appropriate, thereof.

**We're looking for someone who has**:

- Recent and relevant experience in similar regeneration and / or project management role(s).
- A good knowledge and understanding of Homes England’s Capital Funding Guide.
- Experience of using ProVal and Sequel.
- PRINCE 2 or equivalent qualification in project management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce and present reports.
- A good technical understanding of residential design.
- The aptitude to be flexible and responsive.
- Ability to coordinate numerous projects and to deliver to set deadlines.

**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 colleagueshave a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

**About us**

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, 'Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’.The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to makea difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

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 willencourage 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 makeit 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 conditionenabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.