Senior Housing Strategy Officer

4 weeks ago


Wokingham, United Kingdom AWD online Full time
Job Title: Senior Housing Strategy Officer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Housing Strategy Officer to join our Strategic Housing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of housing strategies, policies, and affordable housing delivery programmes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead on the development of housing strategies, including homelessness and rough sleeping strategy and action plan, young persons housing strategy, and older persons/specialist housing strategy.
  • Lead on affordable housing policies, enabling the organisation to secure affordable housing provision through development management.
  • Justify affordable housing policies at planning appeals, inquiries, and hearings.
  • Lead on affordable housing enabling across the Borough, negotiating with developers for both onsite and offsite affordable housing, and liaising with Registered Providers.
  • Act as a link person in the strategic housing team on key issues such as homelessness and domestic abuse.
  • Lead on the project management of commissioned housing projects, including specialist housing schemes and community-led housing schemes, including developing robust business cases, taking projects through from implementation to completion.
  • Deputise for the Head of Service when required.
Requirements:
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, or have the equivalent experience of working in housing.
  • Partnership working and negotiation skills.
  • Financial modelling to support the development of business cases for commissioned housing projects.
  • Demonstrable experience of the development of successful external funding bids for housing projects.
  • Demonstrable experience of project management models, including target setting, monitoring, and evaluation.
  • Excellent organisational skills and workload management skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with senior officers, Elected Members, managers, staff, colleagues, and partners.
  • Self-starter, team player, highly organised, and driven individual, with a strong ability to negotiate and achieve results.
  • Excellent, written, oral communication skills, and IT literacy.

We offer a range of benefits, including 31 days annual leave (rising to 36 after 5 years continuous local government service), a local government pension, flexible working arrangements, an Employee Assistance Programme, sport and leisure discounts, access to an onsite gym, a range of employee discounts, and a salary sacrifice car scheme.



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