Job Introduction
What you’ll do
Notting Hill Genesis is one of London's leading housing associations and is on an exciting journey to create better places and communities where people can thrive for the long term. Our residents have told us that a sense of community plays a crucial role in their overall experience. They need a place they can call home and a community they can feel a part of and engage with.
As the Communities and Social Value Manager you will play a key role in shaping and delivering community development and maximising social value for our residents and the communities, we work in.
How you’ll do it
You will develop, and provide strategic leadership of, a new communities and social value team to deliver meaningful community engagement and social value aligned with our Better Together corporate strategy to ensure the best possible results.
You will develop a community engagement framework that can be rolled out to ensure our communities are central to the way we think, work, and deliver our services. Develop and maintain strong and effective collaborative relationships to ensure a coordinated and cohesive approach to delivery between NHG staff, third party partners, external stakeholders, and customers. Establish and nurture partnerships with Community Development Trusts, Social Enterprises, and other community organisations/local stakeholders. Building capacity in the community and businesses to be able to deliver local services.
You will develop and oversee the implementation of a comprehensive social value strategy across the organisation that implements a consistent and sector leading approach to maximise the commitment and delivery of social value by contractors and partners.
Work closely with internal and external stakeholders – including residents, to set our priorities. Work closely with contractors to deliver outputs that align with our priorities and develop tools to monitor delivery of social value activities and measure the impact with a focus on feeding information back in to ESG reporting.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
Essential:
- Extensive knowledge and experience of securing social value from contractors and setting up frameworks to monitor delivery.
- The ability to build strong networks and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- A strong understanding of residents needs and ability to respond flexibly to changing requirements.
- Excellent communication skills both oral and written, tailored to a wide range of audiences.Excellent organisational skills to ensure high quality social value activities are in place and delivered.
- Excellent working knowledge of community investment delivery and partnerships.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of reporting tools i.e., HACT/ TOMs.
- Professionally qualified and /or equivalent and/or considerable experience and/or demonstrable ability in social & economic investment.
- Degree level qualification preferable.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 10 May 2024.
Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
