Asset Compliance & Data Manager Location: Home-based with occasional travel Contract: Permanent, Full time
Salary: c.£60,000 per annum To view the JD:
Step into a role where your leadership directly strengthens resident safety, organisational accountability, and the integrity of our compliance programmes. As our Asset Compliance & Data Manager, you’ll shape strategy, drive cultural change, and ensure our compliance data, governance, and assurance frameworks meet the highest standards across fire, building safety, and housing health & safety.
About the Role
As our Asset Compliance & Data Manager, you’ll lead the development and delivery of our organisation‑wide compliance strategy ensuring we meet all statutory, regulatory, and internal policy requirements. You’ll oversee governance frameworks, risk assessments, assurance reporting, and the implementation of lessons learned from audits, reviews, and regulatory findings.
You’ll lead a high‑performing team, deliver compliance training, and embed a culture where resident safety and accountability are central to decision‑making. You’ll also manage investigations into compliance breaches, liaise with regulators such as HSE and BSR, and ensure recommendations are implemented effectively.
A key part of your role will be acting as the organisation’s data steward for compliance data ,maintaining the Golden Thread across fire, gas, electric, legionella, asbestos, and lifting equipment. You’ll define data quality standards, monitor performance, and ensure compliance data is accurate, accessible, and actionable.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Developing and delivering an organisation‑wide compliance strategy.
2. Establishing governance frameworks for compliance reporting, monitoring, and assurance.
3. Leading policy development and ensuring alignment with legislation and best practice.
4. Conducting compliance risk assessments and implementing mitigation strategies.
5. Providing assurance reporting to Executive Leadership, Board Committees, and regulators.
6. Leading investigations into compliance breaches and regulatory non‑compliance.
7. Managing relationships with regulators including HSE, BSR, and Environmental Health.
8. Leading and developing a high‑performing compliance team.
9. Delivering compliance training and supporting cultural change initiatives.
10. Acting as data steward for compliance data and maintaining the Golden Thread.
11. Supporting procurement and contract governance for compliance‑related services.
12. Monitoring budgets, KPIs, and compliance performance metrics.
What You’ll Bring
Skills & Experience
13. Strong leadership and stakeholder‑engagement skills.
14. In‑depth knowledge of compliance legislation and regulatory frameworks.
15. Experience leading compliance programmes in complex organisations.
16. Ability to analyse compliance data and produce high‑quality governance reports.
17. Experience managing investigations and regulatory liaison.
18. Ability to lead cultural change and embed accountability.
19. Strong communication and presentation skills.
20. Experience managing cross‑functional teams and delivering organisational change.
Qualifications
21. Degree in Law, Business, Risk Management, or equivalent experience.
22. Professional compliance qualification (, CCEP, ICA, IIA) or willingness to work towards.
23. CIH Level 4 or equivalent (or willingness to work towards).
24. NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Health & Safety qualification is desirable.
25. Ability to travel across the region
Why join us?
You’ll play a central role in shaping how we manage compliance, risk, and resident safety across the organisation. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful change, influence strategic decision-making, and ensure our residents live in safe, well‑managed homes.
If you’re ready to lead with purpose and drive excellence in compliance, we’d love to hear from you.
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
Our values
Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.
Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.
Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
26. Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
27. Mental health support
28. Flexible working options
29. Access to online GP appointments
Finance
30. Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
31. Quick and easy pension transfer service
32. Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
33. Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
34. Free Blue Light Card
Career
35. Ongoing personal and professional development programme
36. Leadership Pathways online learning resources
37. Career progression and promotion opportunities
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Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.