Assistant Director of Regulatory Engagement

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 308409**Salary**:

- £93,025 - £103,257**Job grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- RSH - Regulation Operations**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B2 4BH : Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS1 4AP : Manchester, North West England, M1 4BTAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are looking for a number of Assistant Directors of Regulatory Engagement to join us, leading the regulator’s multi-disciplinary frontline regulatory teams.

The recently passed Government Social Housing Regulation Bill gives us additional powers and responsibilities around the importance of safe, decent homes for social housing tenants and on landlord transparency and accountability. We have a key role in delivering these outcomes through an expanded, proactive consumer regulation function.

You will play a key part in this, taking a responsibility for managing an assigned portfolio of registered providers, and ensuring engagement with those providers. You will be responsible for ensuring an effective assessment of providers’ compliance, and that their work promotes effective governance, management of strategic risks, good service delivery outcomes, transparency and accountability.

**Job description**:

- Taking on a key leadership role in the planning of the work of the directorate, you will be responsible for building capacity within the team to ensure the regulator continues to deliver regulation which supports the regulator in achieving its purpose and objectives. You will be lead a team of multi-disciplinary staff, supporting and developing your team and taking responsibility for overseeing the delivery of planned and reactive inspections of registered providers, and for leading reactive engagement with providers, covering governance, financial viability, service outcomes, accountability and value for money.**Person specification**:
You will have experience of dealing with issues within the principles of good corporate governance, and the ability to evaluate how an organisation has applied those principles to your work. You should also have excellent analytical evaluation skills, with the ability to exercise sound professional judgement to reach evidence-based conclusions, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills for a range of audiences.

**Benefits**:

- We offer a range of excellent benefits:

- Holiday - The Regulator of Social Housing offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Working Flexibly - At the Regulator of Social Housing we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
- These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.
- Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
- Professional Development - At the Regulator of Social Housing we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
- We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
**Interviews**
Interview dates are **in the week commencing 18 September **and will be held via Microsoft Teams.

**Application process**

For more information on the role, please see the attached Role Profile.

Anonymous shortlisting - We carry out anonymous short listing for all of our vacancies as part of our commitment to Equality and Diversity and ensuring a fair and consistent approach to recruitment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss o