Housing Enforcement Manager - Inside IR35 Job Purpose To develop, direct and manage the clients Housing Enforcement Service in a manner that makes effective use of advice, licensing, risk-based interventions and enforcement action in order to improve housing conditions – and effect a positive and sustained step change in the behaviour of landlords and letting agents – in Northampton’s private rented sector. To establish, maintain and update clear and effective controls for the licensing and regulation of houses in multiple occupation, the investigation and prosecution of offences relating to the harassment and unlawful eviction of tenants, and the improvement of housing standards in the private rented sector, in order to meet the Client’s statutory obligations and ensure that all private sector housing in the borough is safe and habitable. To make optimum use of civil penalties, rent repayment orders and licensing fees to support Northampton’s intelligence-led approach to housing enforcement, maximise the Housing Enforcement Team’s impact in tackling criminal, rogue and irresponsible landlords and ensure that, in the long term, the Housing Enforcement Service is self-funding. To ensure that effective procedures and controls are in place for the Social Lettings Agency to take on the management of any private housing that is substandard, unsafe, unlicensed and/or badly managed, including properties th...