Head of Land & Partnerships

Job Introduction

So…. What is this role exactly?

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Development or Growth professional to join Your Housing Group’s as Head of Land & Partnerships.

At Your Housing Group, we're passionate about creating more places for people to thrive. As we continue to grow our development programme and deliver high-quality affordable homes, we're looking for a commercially astute leader to identify, secure and deliver new development opportunities that support our ambitious growth plans.

What will my working week look like? 

You will have a home-based contract but there is the requirement with this role to visit our Head Office in Birchwood, Warrington for meetings and training when needed.  You will also need to visit development sites and partners. Realistically, you will be required to visit our Head Office once, sometimes twice a week, so ideally you will be based in the North west within a comfortable commute to Warrington, Cheshire

 What will I be responsible for doing?

As Head of Land & Partnerships, you'll lead the sourcing, appraisal and acquisition of land and development opportunities across our operating areas.

Developing strong relationships with landowners, local authorities, developers, and other strategic partners, such as Homes England and local authorities, you'll play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality affordable housing schemes that create lasting social value while delivering strong commercial outcomes for the Group.

In Partnership with, and reporting to the Director of Assets & Growth, you will also have the opportunity to significantly contribute to the development and implementation of the Groups growth strategy.

One of the great things about this role is that you will be using your leadership skills and experience in Development & Growth to improve the lives of thousands of our customers across the North West and Staffordshire.

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

To be a successful Head of Land & Partnerships here at YHG, you require a proven great track record in all thing’s Development & Growth at a senior or SME level including  

• Significant experience within affordable housing development, residential development, or property acquisition.
• First-hand experience of Development and land acquisition confident securing land-led and developer-led opportunities for affordable housing development
• Proven experience managing Design and Build contracts and development agreements.
• Excellent understanding of development finance, planning and affordable housing funding. 

Ideally you will be…

• A great collaborator capable of building relationships across a large organisation and throughout a wider external environment.
• A confident relationship builder and leader of people, able to professionally influence and challenge stakeholders and partners at all levels, both internally and externally
• Experienced in presenting investment recommendations to senior stakeholders and Boards.

This role is really suited to someone who is self-motivated and has a good level of gravitas, allowing them to both successfully lead teams and develop key collaborative relationships on the Groups behalf, to make a real difference to the lives of our current and future customers.

So, if you are a Senior growth, development or land professional, looking for your next step into a role that provides a high level of autonomy, within a company that is passionate about delivering quality affordable Housing, then we would love to hear from you!

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £80,000 - £85,000 for a 35-hour week, and 29 days annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

At #TeamYHG we measure performance on outputs and quality, not hours and minutes. We offer a flexible, homeworking culture where we trust our people to manage their time responsibly. If you need to adjust your working day for commitments such as appointments, we'll support this provided it works alongside business requirements and team priorities.. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our purpose-built collaboration, wellbeing, and social space in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), Medical Insurance (Aviva), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work.

Closing Date: 13th September

We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.  Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.