Housing Standards Manager

Brackenberry

  • Wirral, Merseyside
  • £55.00-68.79 per hour
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
  • Apply easily
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Wirral to assist with the appointment of a Housing Standards Manager, on a 3-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.Rate of Pay: £55.00 - £68.79 per hourResponsibilities:
  • Represent Wirral in a leading role on housing standards issues at a regional and sub regional level on cross authority working and investment opportunities, including where required LCR Officer and Programme Board meetings.
  • Plan, collect, analyse, evidence and make strategic decisions in relation to area-based multi-property Neighbourhood Options Appraisals, Compulsory Purchase Orders and Master-planning exercises to determine the most satisfactory course of action for dealing with poor housing conditions and obsolete housing and take action to deliver proposals.
  • Appraise opportunities to innovate, develop and implement strategic projects that effectively tackle the biggest challenges associated with improving housing conditions, and making the best use of Wirrals housing stock utilising the resources available and in line with the Councils Housing Strategy
  • Engage, influence and negotiate with partners outside the Council to secure resources, services and added value to benefit the Council, service users and deliver investment programmes relating to improving housing conditions for example LCR retrofit programmes, pilots to improve intelligence on rogue landlords or other wider projects
  • Lead on the identification of strategic priorities and opportunities for housing standards and prepare and submit funding bids to government agencies in order to provide financial resources to implement both the revenue and capital elements of the housing services and programmes.
  • Design and implement information systems for monitoring and reporting the performance across all of the teams and take necessary action to enable targets and performance standards to be met. Assist in ensuring that information systems are responsive to changing needs and compliant with legislative requirements.
Qualification:
  • Appropriate housing, environmental health, or building qualification.
Required Experience:
  • Experience of and ability to prepare detailed specifications of work for large projects and leading on tendering procedures for housing regeneration projects.
  • Substantial experience in the regeneration of private sector housing stock.
  • Experience of representing the Council at sub-regional, regional or Inter Agency work groups and forums.
  • Experience of procuring or undertaking house condition surveys.
Please note:
  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.#RQ1256347

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