X 3 Senior Projects and Policy Officer

**Key information**:
**Salary**:£58,217 per annum

**Grade**:9

**Contract type**:Permanent, Fixed Term, Secondment

**Reference**:1754

**Contract details**:1 x permanent, 2 x fixed term contracts (12 months from the first day in post). We are willing to consider secondments for the FTE posts.

**Interview date**:early/mid August (exact dates TBC)

**Application closing date**:Tue, 22/07/2025 - 23:59

**Housing and Land**:
This is an exciting time to join the GLA’s Housing and Land directorate to deliver programmes and services for specific groups of Londoners facing multiple barriers to accessing housing and support.

We are recruiting for three posts - one permanent post supporting capital delivery of specialist and supported housing and two 12-month fixed term posts working on rough sleeping programmes focusing on women homelessness or migrant homelessness.
The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities. Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.**About the team: Specialist Housing and Services**:
The Specialist Housing and Services (SHS) Team delivers the following areas of work:

- Rough Sleeping: delivering the Mayor’s work to tackle rough sleeping in London. The team commissions a wide range of frontline services, manages a variety of different projects aimed at reducing rough sleeping and oversees the revenue element of programmes which deliver more accommodation for this group of Londoners. **Find out more**.
- Specialist and Supported Housing: managing capital investment programmes to deliver specialist and supported housing for groups of Londoners who may be marginalised by the housing market. People experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic abuse, adults with learning disabilities and older people are just some of the groups the team supports. **Find out more**.
- Housing Mobility: delivering two services which support particular groups of Londoners to move home either within or outside of London, according to their needs. The homes freed up as result of these moves are used to meet other Londoners’ housing needs, including by preventing and alleviating homelessness. Find out **more** and **more**.
- Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: working in partnership with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to deliver the Mayor’s duties under Part 4 of the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act to support victims/survivors of domestic abuse and their children in relevant safe accommodation. This includes commissioning and grant funding a range of services and providing capital funding to deliver safe accommodation. **Find out more**.

**About the roles**:
The roles will support the development and delivery of housing and support-services in line with the strategic outcomes set out in the **Mayor’s Rough Sleeping Plan of Action**, **Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Strategy**, Housing Strategy and associated plans. This will include putting in place plans and partnerships to ensure the delivery of those policies, projects and programmes, and to support the Mayor in directing the use of London’s capital and revenue funding to better meet the needs of Londoners marginalised by the housing market.

The permanent post will focus on overseeing the Mayor’s capital investment programmes to deliver specialist and supported housing.

One of the 12-month FTE posts will have a specific focus on coordinating and delivering activities at a strategic level to help ensure that rough sleeping for women can be prevented where possible and where it occurs is rare, brief and non-recurrent. The other 12-month FTE post will have a specific focus on contract managing specialist rough sleeping services for non-UK nationals, such as immigration advice services for migrants sleeping rough, as well as other wider rough sleeping responsibilities.

**What your day will look like**:

- Driving forward projects and services to deliver on the Mayor’s priorities to tackle rough sleeping and meet the diverse housing needs of Londoners.
- Engaging, and coordinating engagement, with central and local government partners as well as charitable partners on issues affecting people sleeping rough.
- Monitoring the delivery of existing schemes, supporting partners to deliver projects to time and budget, closely monitoring delivery challenges and identifying lessons learned
- Working in partnership with government bodies to advocate for and develop new funding programmes aligned to emerging needs of Londoners.
- Collaborating with colleagues in other GLA teams on cross-cutting issues;
- Taking part in procurement activity and overseeing the development and assessment of new schemes via the GLA’s capital and revenue funding programmes.

**Skills, knowledge and experience**:
The following are essential crite