Job Introduction
What you’ll do
As Director of Places and Built Environment you will drive excellence in the quality of the design, construction and sustainability of our built environment creating great places to live and promote a vibrant community.
You will lead a team dedicated to excellence in the areas of community investment, sustainability, design, and technical performance from design, through handover and acceptance into management. You will lead on servicing of the Homes Committee in areas of your brief.
You will also serve as the deputy to the Chief Homes Officer.
As a member of the leadership team in the Homes Directorate you will play a pivotal role in fostering a culture of customer centricity and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for ensuring all our development and constructions services deliver the best outcomes for our residents
Direct activities towards the continuous improvement to our development and sales service to enhance the customer experience of our service and product.
This role is at leadership level.
How You'll Do it
- Establish and oversee the delivery of quality standard and assurance process to ensure leading product quality.
- Translate executive vision into practical strategy for the Homes directorate, ensuring teams deliver technical and design specifications that meet the needs of our customers.
- Oversee the maintenance of design and technical specifications to assure our homes comply with building safety and health and safety requirements.
- Lead a digital library and golden thread to meet Building Safety regulation.
- Strategic Lead the delivery of a resident involvement and social investment services that puts residents at the heart of our service
- When things go wrong lead the team to fix the defects to provide a customer centric post construction service.
- Oversee the acceptance into portfolio function to ensure all properties developed or acquired meet our compliance expectations and requirements and are accepted into management by the Assets and Building Safety teams. Likewise, to oversee the removal from management of assets that are sold.
- Support the Chief Homes Officer in the development of the Homes Strategy.
- Robust strategic planning and budget management to ensure the effective performance of the development and sales service
- Ensure that you follow and keep up to date with all relevant Notting Hill Genesis and statutory policies and related procedures including health and safety and financial regulations.
- Hybrid arrangements - at least three days a week in an office or in a community/site based/partnership setting. On other days, working from home may be possible, depending on the work needed and the interaction required.
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
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:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
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 21 March 2025
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to assessment and 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.
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.
