Housing Engagement Manager

Housing Engagement Manager

London Borough Of Waltham Forest

Salary: £45,834 - £48,819

Location: Waltham Forest

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, 36 hours per week.

Closing Date: 14/03/2021 at 23:30 PM

Reference: RS/21/143330

2019 winners Municipal Journal Local Authority of the Year; 2019 1st London Borough of Culture; Pilot borough Connecting Communities.

Bursting with culture, innovation, energy and opportunity, Waltham Forest is a place people want to live, raise a family, start a business and work. The pandemic has meant that delivering fantastic local services are more important now than ever, over this past year we have risen to new challenges through the adoption of new ways of working and innovation in service delivery, enabling us to continue to make a difference for our residents. Public service has been at the heart of our response to Covid-19 and our new strategy sets out how we will continue to change our ways of working to become a more modern, efficient and responsive organisation, and we want to build on the success of recent years our local response.

Housing is central to our future plans and our priority is to ensure everyone has a decent roof over their head. Now is an exciting time to join our Housing Services department as we seek to rebuild from the pandemic and take advantage of further opportunities to grow and innovate. We are looking for the right people with the initiative and commitment to make our ambitious plans a reality!

The Housing Engagement Manager will lead on developing and implementing the Resident Involvement Strategy and spearheading our work on resident involvement in building safety.

The successful candidate will have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and an excellent track record of delivering an outcome focussed resident involvement service to meet regulatory requirements.

You will be highly skilled in consultation and engagement techniques including digital engagement and have experience in community development. You will be responsible for managing a small team of housing engagement officers as well as have overall responsibility for our housing community facilities including the Priory Court Community Centre.

Apply link: https://ats-walthamforest.jgp.co.uk/vacancies/view/143330?ga_client_id=5f8c0990-4eaf-d17a-85c2-5f0fdeb769cc