Job Introduction
What you’ll do
Reporting to the Chief Homes Officer on our executive board, you’ll be the strategic lead for resident and building safety activities across our organisation. As the Director of Resident & Building Safety, you will be the organisation expert in resident and building safety services.
In this Director of Resident & Building Safety role, you will lead and inspire a team to deliver essential services that keep our residents and buildings safe and warm. By doing this, you’ll ensure we meet our legislative and regulatory obligations and protect our business. This is a people manager role. This includes ensuring NHG meets its obligations under the Building Safety Act, alongside providing strong oversight and assurance across our wider resident and building safety responsibilities.
This is an opportunity to build on progress already made in compliance, while continuing to improve services, strengthen organisational assurance and ensure resident safety remains at the heart of our decision-making.
How you’ll do it
- Lead the delivery of all landlord provided services that keep our residents and buildings safe and warm, including energy procurement.
- Oversee the development of statutory compliance and building safety processes to meet regulatory obligations and good practice, including our obligations under the Building Safety Act, as well as fire safety and heat network regulations.
- Oversee the procurement and contract management of suppliers to deliver the required services, including inspections, assessments, surveys, repairs and maintenance to achieve resident and building safety.
- Establish and deliver a strategic business plan for the investment in our homes and buildings, ensuring resident and building safety priorities inform how we invest to keep our homes safe, warm and fit for the future.
- Own and oversee the data and assurance that supports and demonstrates resident and building safety, enabling effective oversight of performance, compliance and risk.
- Working with your team, propose annual revenue and capital expenditure that ensures resident and building safety is maintained.
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.
We’re looking for a strategic leader who can bring clarity to complexity and turn ambition into delivery. You’ll combine strong judgement with a clear focus on risk, assurance and performance, inspiring teams and partners to deliver consistently high standards of resident and building safety.
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.
We’re looking for a Director of Resident & Building Safety who has:
Essential:
- A relevant professional qualification in social housing leadership and/or resident and building safety.
- Proven experience managing risks related to statutory compliance and the safety of housing or infrastructure.
- Senior leadership experience with accountability for large teams and significant budgets.
- Strong experience of providing strategic oversight and assurance across complex safety, compliance or regulated services.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage teams and influence at senior levels.
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 largestt housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and we employ around 1,800 employees.
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 10 November.
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.
If you are successful and are offered this role with us, this offer will be subject to a number of pre-employment checks, including checks of your public online presence and public social media profiles. If you have any questions about what this will involve, please speak to a member of the HR Team.
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.
