Housing Strategy & Enabling Officer

What's involved with this role: Interim Housing Strategy & Enabling Officer Rugby RQ1430143 Hybrid (twice a week on-site) Basic DBS required Key Requirements:

• Experience in strategy development and housing policy.
• Strong knowledge of UK housing, planning, and regeneration policies.
• Proven ability to manage partnerships and negotiate effectively.
• Excellent communication, IT, and organisational skills.

The successful candidate will be pivotal in developing and implementing housing strategies, enabling new affordable housing, and understanding diverse housing needs. You'll also manage key relationships and negotiations with partners to maximise housing resources and support the Council's strategic housing objectives. Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and monitoring of housing strategies, policies, and action plans.
• Conduct research and assessments to inform the Housing Strategy and Local Plan policies.
• Engage with local communities and stakeholders to address affordable housing needs.
• Manage partnerships with Homes England, Registered Providers, and developers to meet community housing requirements.
• Oversee affordable housing negotiations, ensuring compliance with Section 106 agreements.
• Promote low-cost homeownership and support the Council's affordable housing projects.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please