This is an exciting opportunity to join the Product Equity and Partnerships team, a highly skilled and ambitious team working with Matt Day and Fay Mitchelson who lead on equity origination and transaction management to shape the future of housing investment in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.

You will play a critical role in supporting the team’s purpose of raising the profile of housing across all tenures as an investable asset class and encouraging new delivery partners and institutional money into all sectors of the housing market. We do this by making selective equity investments into delivery platforms including third party investment funds and partnerships. These leverage wider institutional investment to achieve outcomes that are a significant multiple of the Agency’s participation.

The holder of this role will help us to build and manage the team’s transaction pipeline, take new investment proposals through our approval process, structure new partnerships, undertake due diligence, negotiate and contract on new equity investments.

You will be joining our small but growing team to attract new and additional partners and capital to deliver new homes and places. 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…

Whilst our day job is to design and deliver new equity investments, you will be used to managing competing priorities and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable with considering and analysing the complex financial and commercial considerations that arise in the transactions undertaken by the Product Equity and Partnerships team. This will require an ambition to work creatively combined with a willingness to think laterally and constructively challenge partners, colleagues and stakeholders. You will be experienced in undertaking financial analysis and have the ability to review financial and legal documents and proposals, identifying key commercial and policy considerations, negotiating terms and presenting arguments in a clear and reasoned manner.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. As an experienced finance or real estate professional, you will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and 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 able to demonstrate that you understand how to manage colleagues, and you can work with others in a collaborative and inclusive way. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

What we offer... 

We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.

If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly 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 top of the range digital kit, you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.

Who are we? 

We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes. 

We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen.

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 that stage.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities. 