Housing Delivery Manager

Job Title: Housing Delivery Manager

Location: County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight

Salary: £46,772 to £50,251 per annum

Contact: For an informal discussion please email Dawn Lang, Strategic Manager - Housing Enabling & Delivery dawn.lang@iow.gov.uk to arrange a call,.

Closing Date: 21/02/2024

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Short Description:  Like to make a difference to housing on the Isle of Wight, join our brand-new team as a Housing Delivery Manager.

Full Description:

This role will allow the right candidate to showcase effective leadership skills to support delivery of the Council’s housing aspirations. This is a challenging position, so we are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic manager who can bring a wealth of knowledge in this sector to ensure our plans for the future of housing on the Isle of Wight become reality for our community.

The successful candidate will:

- Deliver a portfolio of work programmes

- Engage and manage multiple relationships with internal and external stakeholders including the local community

- Manage the Empty Property function

This role demands experience of successful project delivery and excellent communication skills. A commitment to providing high standards of customer service and the skill and discipline to deliver a large and varied workload is essential.

By joining us at #TeamIWC you will be part of a supportive working environment and benefits include flexible working, casual car users’ allowance, plus a generous annual leave entitlement, staff benefits, schemes, discounts, and wellbeing programmes.

If you feel that you could thrive in this exciting opportunity to shape Housing Delivery on the Island and bring essential skills that will allow our team to flourish and achieve our goals then take advantage of this unique opportunity by applying today, we will look forward to hearing from you!

When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:

-  Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!

-  Local Government pension scheme

-  Discounted Solent ferry travel

-  Island bus network discount

-  Cycle to work scheme

-  Staff parking permit scheme

-  Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership

-  National and local discounts & benefits schemes

For some vacancies (subject to criteria) a relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available if you are specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to take up a new role with us.  If you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible to have some travel costs reimbursed.

Location: The Island has 57 miles of beautiful coastline.  More than half is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, It is England in miniature, there’s always plenty to do here whatever the season thanks to a vibrant events calendar.