Haringey 261304 Interim Regeneration Manager - Housing, Regeneration & Planning
We require a Regeneration Manager to contribute to the delivery of the council’s regeneration programmes. The post holder will manage the delivery of a regeneration sub-area or theme and work with the council’s strategic development partners on the delivery of regeneration programmes and initiatives. You will provide briefings to members and senior officers as required and liaise with landowners and key partners.
The successful candidate will commission capacity studies, feasibilities, options appraisals or design briefs as necessary and agree subsequent steps with partners including residents, local stakeholders and Members. You will work with the Head of Socio-Economic Regeneration, Tottenham to ensure delivery of the People priority across regeneration activities.
Specifics include:
- To develop client briefs and work effectively within relevant Council policies and procedures in order to ensure the Tottenham programme is delivered on time, to budget and to the expected quality standard, and that any professional support and advice is procured in an efficient and effective manner.
- To take a lead on a key regeneration theme (e.g. Design, Workspace etc) on behalf of the wider programme.
- To ensure that all projects are developed through a project framework and are subject to the required process level, business case and investment appraisal procedures ensuring that best value is achieved. To provide detailed advice on the financial viability of any Council development proposals.
- Ensure that programme targets and milestones are defined, monitor progress and provide regular reports to the council’s Corporate Plan governance structures.
- To manage Regeneration Officers and Community Engagement Officers.
- Plan, commission and conduct appropriate resident and stakeholder engagement as required.
- To prepare and submit reports and briefings, including Cabinet reports as part of the Council’s formal democratic processes, ensuring input from key teams as required, managing stakeholders to ensure timescales and high quality standards are achieved.
- To ensure that Cabinet Members, Councillors, MPs and other elected members as well as senior managers are appraised of and engaged in the estate regeneration fund work, including providing regular reports.
- Work closely with the Housing Strategy and Commissioning Manager, Planners, Regeneration Officers, Homes for Haringey and others to ensure opportunities are identified and realised.
- To develop effective relationships with the Greater London Authority and Central Government to maximise housing investment funding and other opportunities relevant to the various funding programme opportunities that arise.
- To ensure Member/MP enquiries, Freedom of Information requests, customer complaints and other enquiries are dealt with effectively, ensuring a comprehensive response which has been reviewed by relevant internal senior officers where appropriate, and ensuring that where necessary providers take the appropriate remedial action.
Pay Rate: £24.09 per hour PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – 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.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
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“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Qualifications:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Knowledge & Experience:
- Strong track record of successful engagement with residents, leaseholders, elected members, community groups and other stakeholders, building positive and productive working relationships.
- Experience of taking regeneration projects forward from conception to delivery.
- Experience of taking forward development sites.
- Strong understanding of regeneration policy environment, the London Housing market, the housing policy landscape, the challenges facing local authorities in housing, and the external funding sources available.
- Experience of project and programme management and developing, implementing, maintaining and monitoring projects to tight deadlines.
- Experience of managing staff, and coordinating work across service areas where other officers are leading on delivery.
- Experience of commissioning and managing work from external consultants.
- Experience of budget management including monitoring, reporting, authorising spend.
- Skills:
- Ability to write high quality reports and publications in good English to tight deadlines, and present information clearly to range of audiences.
- Numerical and financial competence, including IT in Word and Excel, in order to analyse and aggregate data, manage significant budgets and evaluate performance.
- Willingness to attend meetings, events in the evenings and weekends as required.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience.
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
- Understanding of financial modelling and experience of scrutinising development and investment appraisals.
- A regeneration or housing related qualification.
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Regeneration/Project Management
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 2-3 months.
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
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Job Ref: Haringey 261304
Interim Regeneration Manager - Housing, Regeneration & Planning
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