Assistant Director - Housing Management

Full Time, Permanent

£75,717 - £82,145 Per Annum

Closing Date: 12 June 2022

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we’re all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city, but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 8,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority’s main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Your New Role

The post holder will report directly to the Director of Housing Neighbourhoods and Building Services and form part of the council’s senior management team. In this role the post holder will lead the Housing Management services for Portsmouth City Council, delivering responsive and effective services our customers. This includes the delivery of statutory functions related to housing and safeguarding.

The role will include leading from the front to inspire and give confidence to both colleagues and customers, whilst developing a regional and national presence working with other social housing providers to collaborate on areas of mutual interest and to shape and inform national housing policy. This role will include leading on working with Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities, Home Office and other government departments on relevant areas, as well as acting as the landlord for the council’s housing stock of approximately 14,000 properties and 2,000 leasehold flats.

This will also include the oversight of the budgets related to the service areas and working with the director, finance, and assistant directors to address budget pressures and the long-term viability of the HRA 30-year business plan.

What you need to succeed?

You will have experience in senior management and have extensive experience ideally in a multi-disciplinary housing environment either in the social or private housing sector.

The role will be a blend of strategic and operational activities therefore will require a breadth of knowledge, including ability to review services using the systems thinking method, a track record of service improvement using an evidenced based approach, extensive knowledge of housing policy and legislation, ability to build and develop effective relationships, as well as managing complex budgets.

What you’ll get in return

As well as highly competitive pay you will receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, which ranges from flexible working hours to a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return. Annual leave starts at 26 days going up to 30 days and staff discounts for travel and local shops. We wish to support all our staff’s development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement within the on the job apprenticeship scheme we will work together to drive your career.

What next

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We look forward to speaking with you soon.