Job Description
Tongwynlais, Cardiff with fully flexible agile working options
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
Are you an experienced development professional? Can you engage people positively and communicate plans in a clear, concise way? Do you have the skills and expertise to drive service delivery of our social housing programme? If so, we have an exciting new job vacancy that might be just what you’re looking for.
About us
Newydd Housing Association is an award-winning organisation that currently owns and manages 3,000 rented properties in mid and south Wales, working in several local authority areas. Newydd Maintenance Ltd is a subsidiary company which provides maintenance services to Newydd Housing Association and is built on an in-house contractor model, designed to drive quality customer services, whilst achieving substantial planned growth and expansion.
About the role
We are looking for a Head of Development to lead our high performing Development Team and to deliver our social housing new build and regeneration programme across all business and financial models.
You will lead on the market sale programme and manage the Development Team to maintain a pipeline of development opportunities to support sustainable growth. You will be working closely with our Community Regeneration, Customer Services, Housing and Assets & Sustainability Teams, as well as driving quality, value for money and continuous improvement service delivery.
About you
We are looking for a highly organised, proactive, and enthusiastic individual, who can lead and shape a motivated team and work effectively with colleagues to achieve positive outcomes. You will need a relevant degree level qualification along with a relevant professional qualification (such as CIOB, RICS, RTPI) or be actively working towards gaining professional status.
You should have a proven track record of relevant senior project management, and, ideally, line management experience, although we would also love to hear from you if you see this as an opportunity to move into a management role. A highly skilled communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will thrive on working collaboratively and building strong working relationships with other teams. You will be very IT literate and digitally focused with a passion for developing asset management systems to drive efficiencies and improve processes. You will have strong analytical skills to understand and interpret property data intelligence and make the right business decisions.
Continually improving is at the heart of what we do so the ability to be flexible and adaptable and to offer an innovative and creative approach is important to us.
Closing Date: midnight Sunday 12 March 2023
Newydd are proud to be an equal opportunity employer! We respect and seek to empower our people by supporting the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds particularly from people of colour or people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in our workplace.
Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply or contact us to discuss your experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Want to know more?
To apply for this job, you will need to complete our short online application form. For further information and to apply online please go to www.newydd.co.uk /jobs
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Newydd Housing Assocation (1974) Limited is a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014