Internal Only: Enabling Officer

1 month ago


Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

**How you'll make a difference**:
***

Working within the Strategic Enabling Housing Team, you will make a difference by delivering much needed affordable housing and specialist housing projects across South Gloucestershire.

You will work with partner organisations, such as Housing Associations, to achieve aims and objectives from the Housing Strategy, and maximise funding opportunities for housing projects.
- This role is a limited term contract until November 2024. This can be offered as a secondment / acting up opportunity.**This post is restricted to permanentand temporary employees of South Gloucestershire Council only**

**What will you be doing?**
- You will work closely with Housing Associations to deliver additional affordable housing opportunities.
- To help determine how affordable housing is delivered, you will draft and agree the legal documentation required.
- Regularly, you will investigate and research new housing legislation and initiatives to help improve our service, feeding back to other colleagues where necessary.
- Working with the People Department, the Regeneration Team, and Property Services, you will project manage and support specialist housing initiatives for members of the community.
- You will also assist with housing delivery options such as joint ventures partnerships or procurement frameworks.
- Using your initiative, you will help develop a pipeline of projects to be prepared for funding bids.
- It will be your responsibility to collate information for funding bids, and draft bids to strict timescales.

**What we need from you**:
***
- It is essential that you hold a degree or equivalent specialist qualification and/or equivalent experience within a specialist field such as Planning, Housing or Land/ Property Management.
- We require you to have good working knowledge of the relevant Housing and Planning legislation, housing association development finance and regulatory framework for the provision of the service.
- You must have substantial experience of successfully negotiating and managing complex projects to timescales demonstrating excellent customer service.
- You will be able to demonstrate the ability to analyse and problem solve complex projects, influence customers, and make appropriate decisions in a timely manner.
- It is essential for you to have excellent negotiation skills.
- It is preferred, but not essential, that you have experience of staff management and/or supervision.

**How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different**:
***
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine **flexibility **to help them achieve that **work/life balance**.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our **training and development** offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive **generous annual leave** (pro rata), employee **wellbeing support** and you will have access to a range of **staff discounts**, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of
- We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
- We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it**
- Please note, this is an LTC or secondment opportunity until November 2024-
**Salary From**:

- £38,223

**Salary To**:

- £41,418

**Hours per week**:

- 37

**Vacancy type**:

- LTC

**Location**:

- Yate

**Team**:

- Housing

**Advertising End Date**:

- 12 Feb 2024


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