Description
JOB TITLE: Director, Social & Supported Housing
SALARY: From £83,000+ (dependent on experience)
LOCATIONS: Manchester / Newcastle / Leeds
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
Are you passionate about making a significant impact through your work?
About This Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Director to join our Social & Supported Housing team. In this pivotal role, you’ll work alongside the Head of Social and Supported Housing to drive franchise growth and deliver tailored banking solutions to clients across the sector.
You’ll support clients with a full suite of banking services, including lending, deposits, and a wide range of financial products - helping them achieve their goals while delivering social value.
This is a critically meaningful role that contributes directly to our Group Social Housing Initiative (SHI), aligning commercial success with social purpose and impact.
Candidates with previous experience in the Social & Supported Housing sector will be given priority to drive this important aspect of the business going forward.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Developing new opportunities by originating and structuring lending solutions for housing associations and charitable providers, guiding clients through the full deal journey.
2. Building deep sector insight—understanding housing demand, funding structures, regulation, and the key public and private stakeholders shaping the market.
3. Strengthening key relationships with clients, advisers, and wider sector partners, becoming a trusted voice and ambassador for the bank.
4. Spotting emerging issues in the sector and identifying unmet needs or challenges, using insight to recommend strategic responses.
5. Evaluating solutions to determine the best fit for clients, balancing financial, operational, and social impact considerations.
6. Supporting planning activity by developing product, customer, and market plans informed by data and aligned to wider strategic priorities.
7. Driving franchise growth through the development and execution of sector‑specific origination strategies that support long-term client success.
What You’ll Need
8. Strong sector experience within Social & Supported Housing, with clear understanding of funding models, regulation, and market dynamics.
9. Client relationship expertise, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across housing providers, charities, professional advisers, and sector networks.
10. Lending and banking knowledge, including experience supporting organisations with structured lending, deposits, and tailored financial solutions.
11. Strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify trends, and translate insight into clear recommendations.
12. Commercial awareness and the ability to assess financial and strategic options to deliver the right outcomes for socially driven clients.
13. Planning and delivery capability, developing informed customer or market plans that support both client needs and organisational priorities.
14. Origination and deal experience (preferred), ideally within housing associations or charitable organisations.
About Working For Us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
15. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
16. An annual performance-related bonus
17. Share schemes including free shares
18. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
19. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
20. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose. 🚀
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.