Head of Strategic Housing

Salary: £63,255 - £85,507

This role will lead the Council's Strategic Housing service, which exists to hold the overview of total housing supply, needs and issues in Cornwall. Working with partners we will use our range of tools and levers from policy to capital delivery to find solutions.

The function sits within the Planning and Housing Service in the Council's Sustainable Growth and Development Directorate.

Reporting into the Service Director for Planning and Housing you will play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of housing - as articulated in the ambitions of the Council's Outcome Delivery Plans and the Cornwall Local Plan.

The Post Holder will lead in shaping and developing this service ultimately leading the development of strategies to address our housing needs. A current priority is the implementation of interventions in relation to the delivery of affordable housing, specialist and supported housing and Temporary Accommodation in Cornwall.

You will lead and develop a strategic commissioning service so that it becomes:

• Confident in strategy development and implementation.
• Demonstrates leadership in the implementation of relevant housing strategies such as the Supported and Specialist Housing Implementation Plan.
• A strong strategic client to the delivery of capital projects, to oversee the delivery of a programme of acquisitions and new build projects to achieve the outputs set out within the Council's HRA Business Plan and Demand Management Plan
• Developing and nurturing other strategic partnerships to enable housing delivery through partner organisations and the private sector.
• Take advantage of place-based regeneration opportunities to delivery housing and contribute to the delivery and creation of allocated sites within the Local Plan.

We are looking for a person who is an experienced and tenacious leader with knowledge and experience of strategic housing and place-based planning and regeneration. This role needs to continue to oversee a change from project delivery to project sponsorship of our capital programme and therefore experience of delivering transformational change and a strong track record of stakeholder engagement is highly desirable.

Overall our task is to continue to develop a strategic service with is forward looking, with a good overview of supply and with a clear ability to develop strategies to solve our housing issues. We require someone who is capable of working in a changing environment, has excellent communication skills, a willingness to work collaboratively with us to solve issues and able to work across large, multi-functioning organisations.

Closing date: 12th May.

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