Senior Planning & Enabling Manager

Homes England

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Reference number

352744

Salary

£54,422 - £64,025

Job grade

Other

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Estates
Geography
Planning
Property
Surveying
Valuation

Working pattern

Full-time

Location

Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX : Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2GN : Guildford, South East England, GU1 4LZ

About the job

Job summary

Working in our Southern Development Planning and Enabling team, the Senior Planning and Enabling Manager will play a critical role in project management of residential led/mixed use development projects, de-risking and securing planning certainty (including masterplanning/consents/S106 agreements and planning conditions), commission and managing capital works contracts (e.g. demolition, remediation, infrastructure)and ensuring key objectives related to design and quality of place, social value and levelling up are achieved.

You will be responsible for a portfolio of complex development projects across the South of varying scale and be required to take an innovative and creative approach to resolving complex planning, technical and legal issues.

Job description

You will also at times support acquisitions colleagues in assessing planning and development risk and help to prepare project delivery strategies. You will support disposal colleagues in assessing tenders and layouts to ensure compliance with the planning framework and quality standards set for our schemes. You will be joining our large, friendly, experienced and highly skilled team, who are committed to making positive change and supporting how the Agency delivers its overarching Mission.

This is a rare chance to shape the future of the Southern area in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working positively with key stakeholders and partners, appointing specialist consultants, and working with a range of professional multidisciplinary internal professionals, you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of delivery challenges. You will have the opportunity to support the wider sector to tackle the housing and regeneration challenges faced by communities around the Country, to enable the delivery of new homes and housing-led, mixed use, regeneration and development.

There are a number of ambitious projects to get involved with across the South and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the Southern Development Team offering.

Person specification

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders and partners, whilst ensuring delivery of projects, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable supporting the Regional Director, Heads Of and Project Directors within the Southern team (as well as working with the wide range of Agency teams such as investment, markets, places and partnerships, legal, technical services, risk and commercial) with complex planning and development issues, aiming to help shape, and then deliver, the Annual Business Plan. You will be proficient in project management, town planning and technical delivery matters. You’ll also have experience in collaborative working with a range of stakeholders and internal staff.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a Southern Development team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced development professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will ideally have a background in management/mitigation of development constraints including programme management and critical path identification, awareness of key technical project risks (utilities, contamination, ground conditions, asbestos, ecology etc), and mitigation strategies. You will also ideally have experience in the procuring and managing of multi-disciplinary teams, working collaboratively to identify, and implement risk mitigation strategies. You’ll have an understanding of future development requirements for instance, transport, energy, utilities, drainage, ecology/biodiversity, sustainable design.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

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Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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