You will be able to demonstrate:

Essential Experience

• Significant management experience within social housing, property maintenance, repairs, asset management, building surveying or a related field.
• Experience of leading operational teams and improving service performance in a demanding environment.
• Experience managing complex damp, mould, housing condition or disrepair-related services.
• Proven success in delivering service improvement, cultural change and performance turnaround.
• Experience of managing budgets, business planning and resource deployment.
• Experience handling high-profile complaints, legal claims and regulatory scrutiny.
• Experience of working with elected members, regulators and external stakeholders.

Essential Qualifications

• Significant equivalent experience operating at a senior management level within housing repairs, maintenance, asset management, damp and mould, disrepair or property services.
• Degree, HND, HNC or equivalent professional qualification in building surveying and construction management.
• Awaab's Law, HHSRS knowledge, disrepair management experience and Housing Ombudsman.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex damp, mould and disrepair services within a social housing, local authority or property environment.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering measurable service improvements.
• Experience managing high-profile complaints, Housing Ombudsman investigations, legal disrepair claims and regulatory scrutiny.
• Experience of budget management, business planning and performance management.

Essential Knowledge

• The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of:
  • Awaab's Law and emerging regulatory requirements for social landlords.
  • The Social Housing Regulation framework and Consumer Standards.
  • Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS).
  • Landlord obligations relating to housing condition and disrepair.
  • Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018.
  • Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.
  • Complaint handling and Housing Ombudsman requirements.
  • Building pathology, condensation, damp, mould and structural defect investigation principles.
  • Health and safety legislation and risk management practices.

Desirable Qualifications and Professional Membership

• Specialist Damp and Mould qualifications, such as City & Guilds Damp and Mould Awareness, building pathology or housing condition diagnostics training.
• RICS/CIOB/CIH membership.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a service that has a direct impact on the lives of thousands of Sheffield residents.

You will play a central role in shaping the future of housing services, improving property standards, strengthening regulatory compliance and delivering better outcomes for our communities.

In return, we offer:

• Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities.
• Access to learning and development programmes.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• The opportunity to be part of an ambitious housing transformation programme.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.