Senior Manager - AH Delivery

Senior Manager - AH Delivery

This role will close on the 11th December 2025. We encourage if you wish to apply to do so at your earliest opportunity. 

Interviews to be held via Teams w/c 15th December 2025. 

A bit about the role...

Working in the Affordable Housing Grant directorate, and closely with the Head of Strategic Partners, the Senior Manager will play a pivotal role in the delivery of affordable housing grant funding programmes. 

You will be responsible for a portfolio of Strategic Partners delivering new affordable homes through the Strategic Partnership funding route across England, working collaboratively with them to support delivery of their affordable housing development pipelines.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing and experienced team, dedicated to partnership working to secure delivery of affordable housing across England. The team is committed to a pragmatic, creative and solutions focused approach.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of affordable housing delivery in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional affordable housing team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of delivery challenges and will identify opportunities to increase affordable housing supply. 

You will also support wider team operational activities, working closely with other teams within Affordable Housing Grants and across Homes England. There are some exciting cross cutting projects to get involved in and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day today delivery while implementing innovative solutions to unlock affordable housing supply.

A bit about you…

Our day job is to ensure excellent stewardship of our grant funded programmes, making sure delivery is compliant with funding conditions and supported by robust performance reporting and risk management. To do that, you’ll need to be used to spinning several plates, responding quickly where challenges arise and shape solutions.

The Head of Strategic Partners believes in working in a collaborative way and values diverse thinking to foster better decision making. You will be an enthusiastic and proactive individual, able to work across teams and with external partners to build strong relationships and deliver at pace. A curious mindset and a focus on continuous improvement and innovation are essential.

Ideally, you will have experience of affordable housing delivery as part of a development team in a Registered Provider, developer or local authority setting. You will have a good understanding of the development process from land acquisition through to planning approval, construction and scheme completion. You will also have experience of delivering or managing grant funded affordable housing projects and/or programmes and will be confident in contract and performance management. You will be comfortable supporting the Head of Strategic Partners with complex affordable housing issues to maximise affordable housing supply. 

This role is a great opportunity if you are looking to gain a national level and strategic perspective of affordable housing delivery, drawing on your own experience to identify new investment opportunities and new ways of unlocking affordable housing delivery. 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level, grounding your discussions in a clear understanding of both commercial and operational impacts. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging team environment and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an affordable housing professional, you’ll understand how to bring people with you and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

As part of the job role there is an expectation that some travel may be needed to attend internal meetings and external meetings with 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. 

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.