Head of Strategic Housing and Development
£600/Day
6-Month Contract

About the Role:

The post holder will have responsibility for leading and delivering the vision and key priorities of the Council's Housing Strategy, working in collaboration corporately and with key partners and stakeholders, locally, regionally, including with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and at a national level. The postholder will also provide advice, guidance and support on corporate and wider policy and strategy development and engage in related activity, which significantly influences, either directly or indirectly, on the Council and the Borough.

This includes maintaining a proactive, horizon-scanning approach to housing and related policy development, ensuring that national and regional changes are translated into the local context and assessed in terms of impacts and opportunities for Rotherham and its residents.

This role also has lead responsibility for the delivery of the Council's housing development programme and supporting the wider delivery of housing growth in the Borough, including shaping affordable housing policy and provision, to meet current and projected future housing need. Such activity includes optimising the use of the Council's land and property assets and external funding streams, developing innovative partnership working within the public, private and voluntary sector and in doing so, shaping the quality and diversity of the Borough's housing offer.

About You:

* Substantial and successful direct management experience within the specialisms of this post, including policy and strategy development, initiating, leading, and managing complex delivery programmes, involving a broad range of services and partners, and which have achieved the desired outcomes.

* A demonstrable track record of building and sustaining effective partnerships, internally and externally, and ability to use high level challenge, influencing and negotiating skills that bring about consensus and shared endeavour in the delivery of key strategies and priorities.

* Successful budget management experience, including evaluation of competing budgetary priorities within tight financial limits.

* Knowledge and demonstrable experience of Local Government democratic processes, and understanding of the political context, and relevant legislative frameworks and Government policy agendas.

* Experience of applying risk management in setting strategy and in identifying and managing principal risks to achievement of objectives, including effective workforce planning.

* Experience of performance management and quality assurance processes in service delivery, including the pursuit of best practice and value for money