Housing Delivery Officer

Housing Delivery Officer

**Salary: £41,511 - £45,718 pro rata, per annum**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Hours: Part-time and Full-time contracts available**

**Location: Hybrid - You can work from home and from one of our office bases in Harrogate, Selby, Richmond, Scarborough, Malton, Northallerton, Skipton**

**Our team**

The Council’s Planning Services play a fundamental role in managing the natural and built environment, ensuring that the future development needs of the area can be accommodated to make it a better place in which to live and work.

The Delivery and Infrastructure team is focussed on unlocking and delivering strategic and local plan development sites across North Yorkshire, developing relationships with funding partners and infrastructure providers and ensuring that monies are levered in from new development to support our place shaping ambitions.

**Role summary**

The Site Delivery Account Manager will play a key role accelerating the delivery of new homes, working actively to remove barriers to delivery, including identifying opportunities where the Council can intervene to unlock sites. You will need to build strong and effective working relationships with the development industry, working collaboratively to monitor site delivery and support timely delivery.

You will develop creative and tailored solutions and interventions and drive forward new initiatives to accelerate site delivery. The post holder will co-ordinate and prepare funding bids, and where successful manage these projects through to successful completion, working collaboratively with internal and external partners.

**Duties and responsibilities**
- Develop and maintain an effective system for proactively monitoring progress on housing sites (including allocations, sites moving through the development management process and sites with planning permission).
- Work collaboratively to maintain accurate records of how sites with planning permission and Local Plan allocations are progressing relative to the housing trajectory and to identify potential barriers.
- Engage with site promoters and developers to monitor progress and to encourage timely delivery.
- Identify opportunities for the Council to intervene in order to unlock/speed up the delivery of sites.
- Work collaboratively with Policy Planners through the preparation/review of the Local Plan to engage with promoters and feed in knowledge of site delivery and during the drafting of housing related strategy and policies.
- Where potential barriers to housing delivery occur (e.g., in relation to a particular site, multiple sites or a certain site typology), evaluate options for overcoming these barriers and recommend a preferred solution.
- Keep abreast of best practice and successful initiatives elsewhere in the country and recommend/implement new initiatives/ways of working to help the service to deliver its housing delivery ambitions.
- Ensure that the Council is proactively meeting its duties in respect of bringing forward self-build and custom build sites.
- Prepare/coordinate quality bids in response to external funding opportunities and commissioning external support for projects/sites.
- Where successful bids are made, ensure that the project is successfully delivered (e.g., through coordination with others, project group, as lead officer, by ensuring the end recipient receives the funding).
- Feed into the preparation, implementation, and review of the Site Delivery Action Plan.
- Build and maintain regular dialogue across the service into the account management process.
- Work closely with officers in Housing & Property to ensure a coordinated Council-wide approach to housing delivery and to make sure opportunities for direct delivery of housing are fully explored.
- Engage external specialist expertise/consultants where necessary to bring sites forward (e.g., viability, urban design/master-planning).
- Prepare regular briefings on progress with account management to present to Members and Senior officers, as necessary.
- Take responsibility for own work, performance, development, and behaviours; using own initiative to ensure that expectations are met for the benefit of the Council, our customers, and our colleagues.

**Experience / Qualifications**:

- Strong track record of effective programme management and experience of managing multi-disciplinary projects and processes.
- Experience of negotiating with a range of bodies and individuals.
- Experience of proactively leading and delivering change and improvement initiatives.
- Working across organisational boundaries, developing effective relationships in order to deliver Service projects and priorities.
- Experience of working closely with the development industry and building proactive and successful relationships between the public and private sector.
- Development and delivery of successful business cases to secure external funding/investment.
- Experience of effective communication using a variety o