Assistant Director

Application closing date:
15/12/2025 at 23:59

Interviews:
Week Commencing 05/01/2026

Contract type:
24-month Fixed-Term Contract

Location:
Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle or Northstowe.

A bit about the role...

Working within a team led by the Delivery Director, the Digital Change Assistant Director will play a critical role in leading technical delivery as part of a complex transformation programme. You will be joining a large and talented team committed to making positive change in how we successfully deliver the digital and technological components of Homes England's strategic and ambitious multi-year transformation programme.

The Delivery Director promotes first-class customer service, resolving blockers informally wherever possible, and taking an innovative and creative approach to transformational and supplier issues. They encourage collaborative and flexible working to foster strong decision-making and problem-solving within the team, maximising business impact while operating within affordability constraints.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future — building the culture, capacity and capability needed to enable successful delivery at pace within a fast-growing national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders ranging from Ministers and Executive-level sponsors to digital and business change delivery teams and SMEs, you will lead a professional technical team to ensure effective supplier management and accountability. You will underpin successful digital delivery, aligning the approach with Homes England's strategy, meeting relevant digital standards, and providing the technical expertise needed to inform delivery plans.

The role will support the design and delivery of the strategic integrated change programme. There are some ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the digital offering. This is a key leadership role that is suited towards an experienced technical leader who has led on the delivery of large scale digital changes within Government.

A bit about you…

You'll operate with, and lead Digital resources embedded in within the Programme's workstream – ensuring overall coherence and effectiveness of delivery. Having excellent stakeholder management skills, acting as the point of technical / digital leadership for the Programme. An experienced digital leader equipped to work on large scale digitally enabled change programmes within Government, managing an eco-system of suppliers and permanent staff, to ensure the programme delivers to time, cost and quality. You must be experienced in the digital lifecycle including the management of transition and end of life risks, able to understand cyber risk and balance complexity with business impact. Understanding of the government functional standards and capable of managing relationships across a wide-ranging network is essential.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a change team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced digital change professional, you will understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people's lives. As the government's housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we're accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we'll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you'll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We're a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.

Your application needs to be in your own words, reflect your personal understanding and experience, and must not have been generated by AI tools such as ChatGPT.