Senior Manager – Housing and Infrastructure Grant Transactions

Job summary

You will be joining our experienced Housing and Infrastructure Grant Transactions team led by Nick Kelly as part of the wider Housing and Infrastructure Grant funding team led by Pauline Schaffer. We are committed to making a positive impact by funding housing and infrastructure to unlock new homes and residential mixed-use developments, supporting growth and regeneration. Working in a team with our current Heads of Infrastructure Grant Transactions Angela Kiwanuka, Michael Telfer and Jon Sayer the Infrastructure Grants Transaction Senior Manager will play a critical role in supporting the development of our pipeline of transactions through the due diligence, contracting and approval process for grant funded propositions across the Country.

Job description

Angela, Michael and Jon believe in working in a collaborative, flexible and supportive manner, resolving issues informally wherever possible. Working with key stakeholders and a multi-disciplinary professional team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective progression of projects through approval stages and the negotiation of grant funding agreements with partner organisations. This is an excellent opportunity to support housing delivery working in a national organisation with real social purpose.

The Housing and Infrastructure Grant Transactions team is dedicated to delivering a considered and measured approach to projects, applying innovation and creativity to complex development and funding challenges. The team values diversity in experience and perspective, working in a collaborative, flexible and applying commercial awareness to foster strong decision making and effective problem solving.

The role will support grant recipients with the structuring of their funding requests for a wide range of projects ranging from small to large and complex regeneration and strategic projects around England. You will review project appraisals, development viability assessments, cashflows and funding structures to ensure proposals are robust, deliverable and represent value for money. The role includes commissioning and managing external consultants and professional advisors, coordinating technical due dilligence and proving commercial advice across the Agency.

Having launched the National Housing Delivery Fund there are exciting, ambitious and rewarding projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to join the team working closely with colleagues across the Agency and partners.

Person specification

We are looking for someone to join our team who understands and is passionate about delivery of funding to support development and regeneration and is used to working in a fast-paced environment where there is the need to balance competing priorities.

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

You will be comfortable with regular national travel to support the development of a pipeline of projects, analysing development proposals, working in close collaboration with other departments within Homes England and externally, managing preparation of business cases and approvals and contracting grant opportunities.

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 Housing and Infrastructure Grant Transactions team. You will enjoy working across the Agency, be innovative, creative, fun and engaging and be able to negotiate and execute transactions.

As an experienced Development, Economic Development, Regeneration, Surveying, Planning or similar related professional, you will have strong understanding of housing or regeneration development delivery, financial viability, project cashflows, cost analysis and deliverability and project deliverability. You will understand how to collaborate with colleagues and be able to demonstrate that you can work with partner organisations in a collaborative and inclusive way. Ideally, you will have knowledge of public sector grant funding, subsidy control requirements and funding programme structures whilst experience of managing consultants and external advisers is highly desirable.

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.

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.

These need to be balanced with business needs so they will vary from job to job. If you would like to know more please speak to the Recruiting Manager.

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.

If anyone has any queries on any of these terms and conditions, please get in touch for further information.

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Selection process details

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

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