Housing Growth Manager

Contract Type : Permanent Salary : Grade I. Scale 35 - £46,142 to Scale 39 - £50,269 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £48,226 Hours Per Week : 36 hours Base Location : Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne Closing Date : 08 / 12 / 2025 Assessment Date : To be arranged The Role Tameside is perfectly positioned for growth. With a wealth of culture, history and heritage to draw on and proud foundations that make it unique. Located just 12 minutes from Manchester City Centre yet nestled in the foothills of the Peak District; we’re gifted with urban opportunity and rural tranquillity offering an ideal location for easy access to both the city and countryside. With some of the largest pockets of land in the Greater Manchester area available for development, it really is a fantastic canvas for regeneration and growth with the aspiration, vision and ambition to match. We are all about creating the right environment to attract investment, jobs, homes and infrastructure to continue to make Tameside a great place to live, work, invest and visit. Investment is underway through substantial major regeneration and capital projects across the borough. Bringing significant affordable housing development, substantial infrastructure investment to improve our connectivity across the region and beyond, alongside the revitalisation and re-imagination of our town centres. Reporting to the Housing Growth Lead you will be responsible for driving forward housing growth projects and programmes within the Development and Major Programmes team. About You You will be educated to degree level. You will have experience in facilitating successful delivery of housing projects and co-ordinating and submission of funding bids to unlock housing growth. You will be able to work effectively in range of multi-agency and partnership settings to support delivery of housing growth schemes. You will be able to work at pace with enthusiasm engaging with and influencing stakeholders. About Us At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be. This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria : Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND Professional standards practised to the highest expected level. If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application. Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship. We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria. Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please click here for more information on our guaranteed assessment scheme. For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on Mike.Reed@tameside.gov.uk #J-18808-Ljbffr