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Housing Development Support Officer


Bristol City Council
Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£33,024 - £36,648 per annum

Job Highlights
  • Can you help us deliver more high quality, affordable homes in Bristol to help ensure the city’s success benefits all our citizens?
  • As part of a multi-disciplinary team within our Housing Development Team you will contribute to delivering new council housing, which aim to create successful high-quality places for people to live and work.
  • We offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation.
Job Requirements/Description

Can you help us deliver more high quality, affordable homes in Bristol to help ensure the city’s success benefits all our citizens?

With a diverse and growing population, Bristol is regularly voted one of the best places to live in the UK. At Bristol City Council, we work together to make Bristol a better place - now and for future generations.

We are a high-profile, fast-moving organisation that has ambitious housing targets. So, if you are passionate about housing and supporting those in need this role offers an excellent opportunity to help us achieve these goals, while working in a dynamic and supportive housing development team.

Bristol City Council is determined to tackle the unmet need for affordable housing in the City. With 19,000 households on its housing waiting list and 1,000 households living in temporary accommodation, Bristol City Council is currently undertaking its biggest affordable housing delivery drive for decades. We are delivering the Affordable Housing Delivery Plan 2023-27 which is targeted to deliver over 3000 new council homes over the next 5 years. This is additional to the affordable Homes being delivery through our Registered Provider Partners and own housing development company, Goram Homes.

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What will I be doing?

As part of a multi-disciplinary team within our Housing Development Team you will contribute to delivering new council housing, which aim to create successful high-quality places for people to live and work. 

You will work closely with Housing Development Managers and Housing Construction Managers, providing project support across a wide range of activities involved in delivering high quality council housing developments.

This will include supporting project teams with early-stage site feasibility and de-risking work, community engagement, planning applications, procuring and managing multi-disciplinary consultant project teams and contractors, assisting with the construction and delivery stage, and leading on the handover of new housing developments to internal stakeholders and assisting with the successful tenants moving into the homes

What do I need to have?

If you have a passion for, and experience of, housing development, we welcome an application from you.

You will ideally have experience of working in housing and working with relevant stakeholders such as, housing development partners, elected Councillors and local community stakeholders.

Will have knowledge of housing, construction, community engagement, project management and It would be beneficial for you to have relevant experience of working within a Local Authority, housing association, or other housing development role within a regulated environment.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

Bristol City Council
Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£33,024 - £36,648 per annum

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