Overview
This is a brand new and exciting role to work alongside the Housing advice team to identify new opportunities and partnerships in Tameside to help deliver high quality accommodation and support services. Although the post is office based there will be lots of working across communities to bring together effective partnerships and services to support the Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy and action plan and really make a difference to the residents of Tameside facing housing difficulties.
You will be a strong, confident and experienced individual able to negotiate high value and complex technical and price contracts. Ideally you will have experience in a similar contracts and commissioning environment in a local authority or in housing and support services. You will be a great communicator and show a track record of developing strong partnerships to deliver shared ambitions. You will be able to work on your own initiative and navigate your way through procurement rules in a timely fashion. Excellent IT skills are a must to enable good contract management to be in place. Negotiating skills and an understanding of the current housing market is also a must alongside an understanding of the challenges being faced by local authorities. The ability to provide high level reports and present complex information to a variety of audiences is a vital skill required as is an understanding of a local authorities financial processes.
Responsibilities
* Identify new opportunities and partnerships in Tameside to support high quality accommodation and support services.
* Work across communities to bring together effective partnerships and services in line with the Homelessness and rough sleeping strategy and action plan.
* Negotiate high value and complex technical and price contracts and manage procurement processes in a timely manner.
* Provide high level reports and present complex information to a variety of audiences.
* Ensure robust contract management supported by excellent IT skills.
* Communicate effectively to develop and maintain strong partnerships to deliver shared ambitions.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Experience in contracts and commissioning within a local authority or housing and support services environment.
* Strong negotiation skills and understanding of the current housing market.
* Ability to navigate procurement rules and manage financial processes within a local authority context.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently.
* Proven ability to develop partnerships and deliver on strategic housing initiatives.
About Us / Additional Information
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything we do; we pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council: “Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I’ve been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that’s making a real difference to our borough. Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tameside, covering planning, highways, parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. We’ve delivered projects like Ashton Old Baths and are working on town centre master plans. We need passionate people to join us to drive real change and shape the future of Tameside.”
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