Deputy Director, Housing, Planning and Cities

Are you interested in making life better in the country's least prosperous places? Do you think the Treasury has a part to play in enabling everywhere to prosper? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Housing, Planning and Cities team are responsible for overseeing the spending for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This involves working with MHCLG on policies to accelerate housing building, make housing more affordable, regional economic growth and devolution. As well as MHCLG, we work closely with many other teams in HMT, No10 including No10 North, and other departments. We are responsible for over £10 billion of public spending each year, including housing, homelessness, planning reform and regional growth.

We are a friendly and inclusive team of around 18; we welcome people from all backgrounds and support flexible working patterns. Come join us!

About the Job

We’re advertising for an exciting role at the heart of the Treasury’s work on economic growth and spending. The Treasury’s role in crafting economic policy and its oversight of public spending makes it an outstanding place to make a tangible impact on these issues. This role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to work on some of the Government’s biggest domestic priorities, with keen interest from the Chancellor and other Ministers.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Playing an active role in the leadership of the Public Services Group through membership of the Group Management Team. This will include leading on key corporate projects and playing a visible role connecting the Group with colleagues across Treasury.
• Leading the Housing, Planning and Cities team, building capability and The team includes 3 G6s, 7 G7s, and 7 HEO/SEO. This is a priority for us, and you will set direction for the team, provide development opportunities and coaching, and pastoral support to build an outstanding team.
• Fostering excellent relationships with senior partners in MHCLG; No 10 including No10 North; external regional growth and housing specialists; MSAs and local government; think tanks; and developers. We are an outward looking team and part of this will involve supporting your team in developing wider links with external stakeholders in order to provide the best advice possible to HM Treasury Ministers.
• Developing and articulating HM Treasury’s strategy on housing and planning, including for the Spending Review - this will involve developing a strong understanding of the housing market and planning system, and how to best support economic growth, working with others in HMT to ensure it continues to be an important part of our wider growth strategy. You will develop the HMT view on where HMG should focus its efforts on housing to boost growth and deliver on the government’s housing ambitions, as well as how we can get best value from the money we spend on housing for vulnerable people, including homelessness and rough sleeping. This will include working with MHCLG and CO on options for reforming the system to make it more sustainable, effective and better value for money.
• Developing, articulating and working with MHCLG and No 10 North to implement HMG’s regional growth strategy, including at the Spending Review - this will involve developing a strong understanding of regional growth, and how we can best use HMT’s policy levers to drive it. You will work closely with the Local Government and Reform team to set direction across HMT, to ensure regional growth is at the heart of our wider economic growth strategy, and lead policy development ahead of SR27 on the future of local growth funding, in the context of fiscal devolution and filling in of the devolution map.