Vacancies

Head of Planning and Data

Main Responsibility

You will have experience working in a strategic role in a property or real estate environment. This will include proven knowledge and experience developing asset investment plans and programmes, to deliver targeted improvements to asset portfolios. This will be based on a clear awareness of statutory and regulatory requirements in a social housing context with the skills to monitor and report effectively such as Decent Homes standard.

In this role you will be delivering improvements to our key Asset systems. Reporting to the Director of Planned Investment and be located from our main offices in Kings Cross. You will be ensuring the quality of asset data and a logical systems architecture for asset management, compliance and building safety

You will be managing the following teams:

• Data and Systems Team: looking after our asset, building safety, energy performance and compliance data quality management. This team also looks after our stock condition survey programmes and system improvements.
• Analytics Team: looking after our strategic asset modelling, performance reporting, and asset technology development such as IoT.
• Planning Team: prioritising and planning our investment, compliance, and energy improvement programmes.

Your success will be completely focused on getting more value from our data, impacting on our corporate priorities, and create evidence of us doing so. 

You will work in partnership with Planned Investment delivery team, Regional Repairs and Housing and Leasehold Management teams to ensure programmes deliver tangible outcomes to customers and the business.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be an experienced leader; enthusiastic and passionate about making an impact. Bringing ideas and executing them.

You will have sound understanding of key financial principals, including budget management, fixed asset accounting and lifecycle costing analysis, and experience using these principles to deliver effective asset management outcomes

You will be a skilled communicator with a proven ability to develop key relationships and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships, utilising feedback to effectively shape strategic outcomes

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with strong technical and analytics skills. These technical skills will be accompanied by an ability to listen and communicate persuasively at all levels across NHG. someone with strong stakeholder management skills as well as the ability to manage people and processes.

Benefits 

In return we offer:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme 
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity 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

How to apply

• Applications close at 23:59 on 19 March 2023.

Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via jobs@nhg.org.uk to discuss your requirements.

About the Company

Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 66,000 homes and employ around 2,000 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future.

Our people

We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.

Our pledges

We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level.  The pledge on Black, Asian and minority ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.

We have under-representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.

We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation.

To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.