Projects Director

Projects - Director

Closing Date: 14/9/2026

You will be required to complete an online Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) prior to your final stage interview as well as preparing a presentation.

Interviews will take place: 

Week commencing 28/9/2026 - North West region

Week commencing 28/9/2026 and 5/10/2026 - South, London and East, and Midlands regions

20/10/2026 - North East, Yorkshire and Humber region

About the role...

This is an opportunity to join at a very exciting time. Homes England is the Government’s housing and regeneration agency. We are entering an exciting new phase, working through a regional and national operating model that will deliver homes, unlock regeneration and create places that thrive.  To support this, the agency is adapting its operating model, we have established 5 regions alongside the continuation of national activity.  We are evolving as a newly formed Regional Directorate and are embracing change with positivity.  

We have an ambitious agenda to deliver and we work at pace. The roles are central to the Agency’s mission to unlock and accelerate the delivery of strategic projects including as a master developer, driving the acquisition, de-risking, and disposal of land assets in line with strategic masterplans and local and national place priorities.  

Homes England works in partnership to deliver some of the country’s largest and most complex housing and mixed-use sites. Whether they are large new settlements, extensions or repurposing of urban areas, or the Government’s New Towns Programme, our enabling role from inception to completion will be key to country’s housing delivery over the next 10 years

Specifically, the development of New Towns will underpin the largest housebuilding programme since the post-war period. The programme of new towns will create large-scale communities of at least 10,000 new homes each, with many significantly larger, and could deliver hundreds of thousands of affordable and high-quality homes in the coming decades. 

We are looking to recruit the following:

- 4 Project Directors for the following regions: South; London and East; North West (x2)

- 1 Project Directors for the following regions: Midlands (24months FTC)

- 3 Projects Director New Towns for the following regions; South; London and East; North East Yorkshire and Humber

Please stipulate in your application which one/s you are applying for. You’ll need to decide which region and office location is best for you to ensure that you are embedded in the region. Understandably, you’ll need to be on sites frequently, do be expected to regularly travel in this role. 

About you…

You’ll have extensive demonstrable experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver large-scale residential or land generation projects. For us, your leadership behaviours are as important as your experience as you’ll embed the values and behaviours in daily work, contributing to a positive and inclusive culture. We need you to have a degree or a relevant professional qualification or significant senior level experience in the housing, development, town planning or regeneration sectors is essential along with a commitment to maintaining professional development. 

This role leads the delivery of a portfolio of nationally significant, large-scale development projects that create vibrant new communities with homes, schools, retail and amenities.  You’ll be front and centre taking forward large-scale projects, participating in delivery partnerships to provide increased capacity and capability to localities. You’ll be representing the Agency at senior-level meetings and in the media too, therefore we’ll need you to be confident in your engagement skills. 

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. 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 as the role guides a team to deliver on time and within budget.  

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

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.

We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector. 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. Homes England are a geographically diverse community, and we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working model.

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.

Employee assistance programme offering a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

A 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.

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.

Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Homes England equality, diversity and inclusion reports -  Homes England equality, diversity and inclusion reports - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. 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.

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