South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Housing Growth Manager
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Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent Full Time
Salary: Grade 11 £51,357 - £54,495
Location: Sheffield (This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office)
Are you ready to play a key role in supporting the delivery of housing growth across South Yorkshire, including working with our partners and Government to drive up the level of social housing delivery?
SYMCA is growing its Housing Strategy Team. To help drive and deliver against SYMCA's housing growth ambitions, we are recruiting a Housing Growth Manager.
Now is an exciting time to join SYMCA's Housing and Infrastructure Team. As an Established Mayoral Strategic Authority (EMSA) with a devolved housing growth budget and a robust regional housing pipeline, we are ready to deliver on SYMCA's housing growth ambitions and the Government's drive for everyone to have a secure home, including "the biggest council house building programme since the post war period".
Reporting directly to the Head of Housing Strategy, you will:
- Lead on enabling SYMCA's Housing Growth ambitions, including 9,000 new affordable homes over the next five years.
- Work in collaboration with our colleagues at Homes England and other key stakeholders, such as the South Yorkshire Housing Partnership, to maximise place-based housing growth and social housing delivery across the region.
- Have a lead role in supporting the four South Yorkshire local authorities in bringing forward housing schemes, including the identification of public sector intervention where appropriate.
- Manage and develop the South Yorkshire Housing Pipeline.
Applications must be accompanied by a cover letter to detail how you meet the criteria as detailed within the role profile. (please see role profile attached). Please note, all applications should be made directly via our careers portal.
Interviews for this role are expected to take place Monday 7 September.
About The Role
As Housing Growth Manager, you will play a leading role in driving housing growth across South Yorkshire and supporting the delivery of major housing development programmes.
You will manage and develop the South Yorkshire Housing Pipeline, working closely with local authorities, Homes England and other partners to maximise investment opportunities and bring forward new housing schemes. You will support the development of business cases for housing programmes and help secure public and private sector funding to enable delivery.
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The role involves building and maintaining strong partnerships across the region, providing project management support for complex housing initiatives, and ensuring housing growth aligns with wider priorities around regeneration, economic growth and place-making.
You will also provide advice and briefing material for senior leaders, the Mayor, the MCA Board and key partners, ensuring housing growth activity is supported by robust evidence, effective governance and strong stakeholder engagement.
About You
You will bring:
- An excellent partnership and innovative approach to maximising housing growth.
- Strong working experience of delivering housing growth.
- An in-depth understanding of the role of Established Mayoral Strategic Authorities in delivering housing growth.
- Excellent project management and business development skills.
You will be an experienced professional with a strong understanding of the national housing growth agenda and the challenges involved in delivering new homes at a regional level. You will be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders, building productive partnerships and influencing decision-making.
You will have excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage complex projects, balance competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes. Most importantly, you will be passionate about creating opportunities for housing growth and helping deliver lasting benefits for communities across South Yorkshire.
Benefits
All colleagues have access to a Local Government Pension Scheme and the chance to be part of an organisation where you can really make a difference. Located in Sheffield City Centre, we are well-placed for transport links and encourage employees to take advantage of the active travel facilities. Work/life balance is extremely important to us here at SYMCA with our recognised family/friendly policies, genuine work flexibility, recognition, and shared success.
In addition to the above, some of our benefits include -
- Holiday Entitlement – From 28 to 36 days annual leave entitlement (depending on length of service) plus bank holidays. Pro-rata for part time colleagues.
- Annual Leave Purchase Scheme – The ability to purchase up to a further 15 days per year in additional to your normal annual leave
- Hybrid working – Our offices are a space where we come together and collaborate. Most of our roles are offered on a hybrid basis with the exception of some support roles being onsite full time. Please note, unless specified within the job advert, we cannot accommodate remote working contracts.
- Flexible Hours Scheme – Most roles within SYMCA work under the Flexi-Scheme which allows office-based employees’ flexibility and discretion over their working hours. Under the scheme employees can accrue a defined amount of credit or debit of working hours, and to take time-off in the form of Flexi-Leave or banked Annual Leave.
- Rewarding You - Reducing everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more with Reward Gateway and Cycle-to-Work schemes.
- Training on the job - Support with upskilling skills through on-the-job training and qualifications
- Professional Membership Fees – Where membership to Professional bodies is applicable to your role, SYMCA will reimburse your membership fees where applicable and following approval by Line Management.
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Diversity at South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority
Our workforce is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
All employees are eligible to request Flexible Working arrangements from day one of employment as such all requests will be considered subject to operation requirements.
Where candidates share disabilities within the application process, if they demonstrate that they meet all essential criteria from the Role Profile within their application, they will automatically be invited to interview.
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process, please contact recruitment@southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk or include within your application form detailing the adjustment and how it will assist in managing any barriers.
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