Your newpany
I am working with a leading affordable housing association that currently provides more than 13,000 affordable homes in local authority areas across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. You will lead a team, providingpliance and building safety services to ensure key operational targets are met or exceeded.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that these contracts deliver value for money, customer excellence in service delivery and strong technical performance.
2. Be responsible for the performance of contracts under your management to ensure that they are delivered in alignment with business andmercial needs.
3. Ensure spend on these contracts aligns with budget and supports the budget-setting and forecasting processes.
4. Ensuring and assessing that those employed to maintain and manage the building have the necessary skills, knowledge and experience.
5. Maintaining and developing information management systems to facilitate safe management of the building, working towards producing aprehensive ‘golden thread’ of information on all properties.
6. Developing and managing the safety cases for buildings over 18 metres so that risks are proactively identified, and mitigating measures put in place and maintained to ensurepliance with the Building Safety Regulator’s requirements throughout.
7. Lead and actively contribute to ‘whole building safety’ matters in all meetings internally and externally and promote collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.
8. Assist with delivering cultural change from technicalpliance to resident safety, actively promoting this through a range of activities, and embedding in day-to-day tasks and language.
9. Assist in the development of operating plans, ensuring continuous improvement to services, making sure that there are effective processes to learn lessons fromplaints and safety incidents.
10. Be responsible for the policies and procedures relating to building safety andpliance lead best practice in departmental procurement policy, ensuring it is reviewed and monitored to ensurepliance.
11. Design and produce performance reports to provide clear and transparent data to internal stakeholders with relevant andprehensivementary.
12. Ensure that building safety andpliance services are supported by strong data accuracy, ensuring that innovation in data (collection, management, and storage) drives improvement across all workstreams.
13. Ensure that residents are adequately informed, consulted with and able to positively contribute and influence the operation and development of building safety.
14. Keep up to date with changes in legislation, sector practice and ensure this is cascaded appropriately and reflected in policy and/or procedural changes.
15. Work collaboratively with colleagues at Peabody to ensure alignment on all building safety andpliance matters. Promote the sharing of information and best practice.
16. Provide advice to the Executive Management Team (EMT) on areas of responsibility by writing and presenting clear and concise reports that challenge opinions, influence decision-making and initiate change.
17. Identify and ensure that necessary and appropriate building remediation is undertaken to ensure that the conditions set out in the building registration certificate are met.
What you'll need to succeed
18. Educated to degree level
19. Technical expertise in respect of building safety
20. Excellentmunication skills, with demonstrable evidence of providing timely, concise, audience-appropriate information
21. Resident focussed
22. Strong IT skills
23. A collaborative approach
24. Good decision-making skills
25. Good planning and prioritisation skills
26. Confidence tomunicate with senior managers and professionals; to convey information clearly and concisely in a pragmatic and assertive manner
What you'll get in return
In return, you will receive a wide range ofpany benefits, such as a generous holiday allowance, in-housepany perks (discounts) and many more.