Manager - Lending Alliances

Manager - Lending Alliances

Closing date 11th June 2025

Interviews W/C 23rd June 2025

Why now?

This is an exciting time to join Homes England, the government’s housing delivery Agency. We have the resources, influence, and diverse expertise to drive positive market change through our significant investment activity. The government has put housing at the heart of its agenda and the Agency is at the forefront of that commitment with a mission to intervene in the market to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need to improve affordability. Homes England will make this sustainable by creating a more resilient and diverse housing market, with a focus on quality.

To help achieve this aim, government has committed over £20 billion of capital to be invested and managed through Homes England. This includes direct lending, equity investment, guarantees, land assembly and the biggest affordable home building programme in a generation.

The role of the Product, Equity and Partnerships team is to attract new and additional capital and partners to the housing sector and create platforms that are a conduit for capital to deliver high quality homes in well-designed places. This team has the appetite and resources to shape the future of housing investment in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.

We do this by making selective equity investments into housing led delivery platforms including joint ventures, third party investment funds and partnerships. These leverage wider investment to achieve outcomes that are a significant multiple of the Agency’s participation.

A bit about the role...

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a small team working with Rebecca Riggs, the Head of Lending Alliances on lending alliance origination, in a national organisation with real social purpose.

You will play a critical role in supporting the team to i) identify suitable lenders to partner with and, ii) create lending alliances to provide financing to developers to allow them to deliver high quality homes in well-designed places. 

The holder of this role will support us to build and manage the team’s transaction pipeline from initial engagement, taking new proposals through our approval process, structuring new alliances, undertaking due diligence, negotiating and contracting new alliances.   

There are a wide range of exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to help Homes England deliver its mission whilst bringing innovative solutions to the team’s work. 

A bit about you…

You will have experience in real estate lending and have the ability to review complex financial information, legal documents and proposals, experience of approval processes and an ability to present arguments in a clear and reasoned manner. 

You will be used to managing your workflow and competing priorities, looking for ways to improve and innovate and have excellent attention to detail.  

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. As a real estate finance professional your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do in the Investment directorate.  You will be resilient and comfortable managing multiple stakeholders. You will be able to demonstrate you can work with others in a collaborative and inclusive way, building relationships and constructively challenging where necessary. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

Who are we? 

Homes England : The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find these on the recruitment pages of the intranet.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.