Wyca - Policy Officer (Housing)

2 weeks ago


Bradford, United Kingdom Bradford Metropolitan District Council Full time

**West Yorkshire Combined Authority**

**Policy Officer (Housing) PSC/E9ho**

**Grade K (SP1) - £38,951pa (pay award pending)**

**Permanent /Full time (37 hours pw)**

**Applications for Part time/Job share will be considered.**

**Location - Leeds City Centre (hybrid working)**
- Do you want to work for an organisation that values you as an individual?
- An organisation that will support your professional development?
- What about an organisation that has Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of everything that it does?
- How about an organisation that does all these things and more?
- Yes? Then look no further than the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Listen to what our staff say on our 'Life at West Yorkshire Combined Authority' webpage.

It is an exciting time to be joining the Combined Authority as we focus on programme development and delivery against the Mayors priorities. Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin was appointed in May 2021 and the Mayor's pledges include building 5,000 sustainable, affordable homes, tackling the climate emergency and protecting the environment, driving up living standards and making sure that the progress we make is fair and inclusive.

The Combined Authority brings together the five West Yorkshire local authorities with businesses via the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership to ensure that our work meets the needs of the people and businesses in the region, and we can achieve our vision to be globally recognised as a place with a strong, successful economy where everyone can build great businesses, careers and lives supported by a superb environment and world class infrastructure.

We are looking for several exceptional individuals to join the Policy and Development Directorate within the Combined Authority. The successful individuals will work on one of the following policy areas: digital; flooding; climate emergency.

**The Role**

You would be joining the Place and Environment Team within the Combined Authority. We are looking to recruit a Policy Officer, primarily to work across our housing policy portfolio. The housing policy team, work across a broad agenda, supporting the Mayor in her housing pledge to deliver 5000 affordable sustainable homes in West Yorkshire

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**Reporting into the Head of Housing your key responsibilities will include**:

- Leading, owning and developing policy proposals, appraising of strategy options, and coordinating of projects and initiatives in relation to the housing agenda
- Working closely with the Head of Housing to develop and implement a West Yorkshire Housing Strategy that will guide the organisations activity across housing to 2040 (aligned to the West Yorkshire Plan)
- Working with the Programme Development Lead, to support the implementation of the Homes England/West Yorkshire Strategic Place Partnership
- Working closely with internal colleagues, District partners and other relevant stakeholders to influence and shape their activities and gain their input to support the delivery of Combined Authority ambitions.
- Leading and developing businesses cases for programmes and projects across our housing agenda ensuring their seamless transition into delivery.
- Identifying and leading thinking to be at the forefront of changes in one or more of the listed policy areas.

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**About You**

**You will have the following skills, attributes, education and experience**:

- Strong understanding of policy development and experience of working within a housing setting (for example within one of the following areas social housing, development, homelessness, local authority housing delivery)
- Experience of policy and strategy development within a complex organisation, translating policy objectives into programmes and delivery.
- Excellent communication, partnership working and negotiating skills to lead on working with a range of key partners.
- Familiarity with the principles of developing good quality business cases within the public sector (including an overview of the Greenbook 5 case methodology) is desirable.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills able to relay complex information to a range of senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- A demonstrable commitment to EDI

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**Our Offer**

**Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including**:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Generous employer contribution pension scheme
- Fully funded travel in West Yorkshire on bus and rail with the MCard
- Flexible working practices with health and wellbeing initiatives to ensure you achieve the best work / life balance and career goals.

We have also recently undergone a major office refurbishment and have bright, airy, modern office space, with all latest technology, and just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station. We also have agile working options too if you would rather work from home, or anothe


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