Senior Strategic Projects Manager (Infrastructure)
Senior Strategic Projects Manager (Infrastructure)
Closing Date: 13/7/2025
Interviews will take place week commencing 21/7/2025 and 28/7/2025
The Markets, Partners and Place (MPP) Directorate leads Homes England’s delivery of major projects in priority places. This includes projects that achieve transformative development and urban regeneration throughout England. The Directorate also leads our response to devolution and the establishment of long-term partnerships with Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs) via our Strategic Place Partnership (SPP) model already in-place with eight MSAs, and more in train. The Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS) is part of the directorate and provides planning and development capacity as part of Homes England wider support to local places and partners.
We are looking to grow our team and are seeking a professional with extensive experience in transport planning and transport infrastructure to support Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and others seeking to deliver large-scale housing-led projects.
ATLAS is a partnership between the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Homes England. We’re part of the New Homes Accelerator, announced by the Chancellor in July last year, which brings together a range of stakeholders, including Homes England, the Greater London Authority, local authorities, developers, and other key stakeholders, to accelerate the delivery of new homes through progressing stalled sites. We also work closely with the Planning Capacity and Capability Team in MHCLG, who support town planners in local government in building the skills and resources needed to deliver a more efficient and sustainable planning system, which can adapt to and successfully implement change.
We’ve come a long way in a relatively short time and are starting to make a difference, providing site-specific planning and enabling support to LPAs to progress large-scale schemes. Our dedicated, multi-disciplined team undertakes a wide range of bespoke tasks at all stages of the planning process. This includes help to build capacity, improve relationships, resolve planning blockages, enhance quality and accelerate the planning process.
We work on all types of large-scale development including new settlements, urban extensions and urban regeneration. We focus a combination of drive, speed, capacity, quality and specialist technical support into local authority services, as well as relationship building, to create momentum to move projects towards delivery.
We particularly welcome candidates from any ethnic minority background and other underrepresented groups to apply, as we work to continually improve our ability to represent the places and communities, we support through our work.
A bit about the role...
This is an important national role at Homes England and requires engagement with key wider stakeholders in other government departments and their delivery agencies such as DfT, National Highways and the Environment Agency, depending on project requirements.
Key internal relationships are with colleagues in the Markets, Partners & Places and other Homes England teams. Relationships will also need to be built with development industry experts, construction innovators, developers, house builders, property agents and local partners in relation to site specific matters.
You will be a trusted point of contact in the ATLAS team, responsible for providing guidance and the coordination of ATLAS expert advice on projects across England, as well as specialist advice where requested by Homes England colleagues.
A bit about you…
We are looking for someone to join us, who understands and is passionate about the delivery of quality homes, regeneration and placemaking and wants to work in an inclusive, supportive and driven team. You will be motivated by working with others to support partners to deliver transformative placemaking and the role of infrastructure within this.
You will be a Chartered Engineer or Chartered Transport Planner or be eligible, given your significant experience post qualification in infrastructure planning and transport infrastructure for major projects.
You will support ATLAS project and programme delivery across England. You will be a trusted point of contact for the team and will need to have strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
You will support project leads as well as lead teams of specialists to progress delivery of prioritised large-scale/long term and complex planning interventions. This will include: supporting the delivery of discreet planning or infrastructure projects; provision of high-quality briefings and analysis for senior leaders; supporting multi-agency/multi-Department working; and project managing the work of the ATLAS team.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable supporting and influencing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the infrastructure planning and delivery.
You will also need to be comfortable leading a problem-solving approach, managing multiple data sets, building relationships in varying teams to collate information to help projects progress and to enable effective and efficient programme monitoring.
This role is a hybrid position and requires presence in our offices 50% of your time per week to meet the needs of the role. You will also be required to travel across the region to meet with colleagues and partners.
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.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
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.