Head of Asset Strategy & Investment Planning

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: HC1 (£69,123 – £79,629)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 3rd November 2024 at 23:59

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

The successful candidate will lead and develop a high-performing Asset Strategy & Investment Planning team that collaborates across the organisation to deliver outstanding services to residents. They will be responsible for the Council’s Housing Asset Management Strategy, as well as the short , medium and long term investment plans, and for managing and updating the Council’s housing stock data and systems, including the coordination of housing condition survey programmes. Additionally, the candidate will ensure value for money is achieved across all commissioned programmes and projects, with appropriate governance and quality assurance measures embedded within the team’s ways of working.

About the team

The Asset Strategy & Investment Planning team sits within Housing Asset Management and is responsible for several key activities. These include managing Housing Asset Data and Systems, which involves gathering, maintaining, monitoring, validating, and updating the Council’s housing asset data, overseeing new building handovers, and ensuring statutory reporting. The team also handles Investment Planning, developing and monitoring the housing investment programmes, while managing change control and identifying new projects. In addition, the team focuses on Asset Strategy & Policy, developing, reviewing, and implementing the Council’s Housing Asset Strategy, the resident engagement strategy for planned programmes, and leading service improvement efforts across the wider team. Lastly, the team is responsible for Energy & Decarbonisation, delivering the Council’s social housing decarbonisation strategy, PAS 2035 compliance, carbon reduction initiatives, and securing grant funding for these efforts.

About you

You will be educated to degree level or possess equivalent relevant working experience, with a strong knowledge of the building construction and maintenance industries. You will have expertise in modern asset management strategies and practices, along with demonstrable experience in delivering service improvements or transformation within a housing environment that resulted in excellent outcomes for residents. With a proven track record of leading and managing high-performing teams, you will be adept at guiding teams through periods of change, meeting time and budget constraints. You will ensure compliance with Health and Safety at Work, Data Protection, and other statutory requirements, and demonstrate a commitment to promoting the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies. Additionally, you will have a solid understanding of the social housing sector, an awareness of innovative working practices, and the ability to assess and manage risk effectively, promoting a balanced approach to risk mitigation across programmes without being overly risk-averse.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts. 

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

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