Housing Renewal Officer

Application closing date

01/12/2025

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Salary

Salary: G £12,988 - £14,250 a year actual salary (£33,143 - £36,363 a year full time equivalent)

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Job category/type

Housing

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Job description

Role: Housing Renewal Officer – INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

Salary: G £12,988 - £14,250 a year actual salary (£33,143 - £36,363 a year full time equivalent)

Location: Council House

Hours: 14.5 hours a week

Closing Date: 26/11/2025

Contract Type: Permanent

WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM EXISTING DERBY CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES. CERTAIN AGENCY WORKERS MEETING CRITERIA UNDER THE AGENCY WORKERS REGULATIONS MAY ALSO APPLY

We have a part-time vacancy within the Housing Renewal Team providing supervisory and financial/administrative support to the Strategic Housing Division in a variety of areas of work.

The post has supervisory responsibility for the Right to Buy Service in the Division, Handyperson Service and administrative support in the Disabled Facilities Grant Service and support service. In addition, the post assists with providing a wide variety of financial tasks for the Division including the set-up of new suppliers, preparing Purchase Orders, receipting invoices, payments, accruals and ensuring that accounts are accurate, particularly at financial closedown.

You will need to be flexible, proactive and creative to deal with the work variety and be able to prioritise your work accordingly.

The Opportunity

In the role of Housing Renewal Officer, here's an example of what you'll be doing to make an impact:

The post-holder will be required to provide a wide range of supervisory support to a number of services within the Strategic Housing Division. In particular, the post is responsible for providing supervision for Housing Services Assistants in the Disabled Facilities Grant Team and and Financial Service the Right to Buy Service and the Handyperson Service.

The post-holder will be required to answer queries directly from our customers.

About You

To be successful in this role, you'll ideally have…

Experience of dealing with queries from internal and external customers

Knowledge of the Right to Buy process

Experience in financial processes within the Council

Experience of maintaining and updating records

Experience of using Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel.

to prepare reports, spreadsheets and maintain databases, update systems and process Purchase Orders

GCSE Maths and English at Grades A-C or equivalent.

Next Steps

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 1 December 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held: TBA. Held at the Council House

Applications are to be made via CV. Please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to along with your CV. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to , however this is optional and will not affect your application.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we'll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it's all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on Relay UK or