Overview
As Director of Assurance, you will play a key role in ensuring governance, risk and compliance frameworks are robust, effective and future-focused. You will lead and deliver improvements, manage at pace, and operate with a flexible approach to change. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will provide strategic leadership across regulatory compliance, internal audit and risk, health and safety, data protection, governance and business continuity. You will be the lead contact with the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH), the FCA, and the Information Commissioner’s Office, act as our Data Protection Officer, and manage assurance across governance, audit and risk frameworks to support safe, secure and accountable services for our customers and assurance to the Board, Audit & Assurance Committee and Executive Team.
We are looking for someone who combines strong technical knowledge with strategic thinking, people leadership, and a values-driven approach. You will be confident operating at Executive and Board level, able to distil complex information clearly, and comfortable navigating both scrutiny and change.
What you’ll lead on
* Assurance & Risk: Oversee our integrated assurance framework, including internal audit, risk management, and Board assurance. Maintain readiness for regulatory inspections and lead the internal audit plan.
* Governance: Ensure our Code of Governance, Board support systems and statutory documentation are best in class. Provide high-quality governance services to our Board, subsidiaries and committees.
* Health & Safety: Shape and deliver a culture of health and safety excellence across the organisation, ensuring compliance with all legal obligations and internal procedures.
* Data Protection: As our designated DPO, lead the organisation’s approach to GDPR, data privacy, and information security.
* Business Continuity: Ensure the organisation is resilient, with robust frameworks in place to manage incidents, fraud, whistleblowing, and safeguarding.
* Customer Voice & Tenant Scrutiny: Lead the governance of our Insight Panel and support the wider Customer Voice Strategy.
Requirements / What you’ll bring
* Proven senior-level leadership experience in a complex, regulated environment
* Deep understanding of governance, compliance, risk, and regulatory frameworks
* A track record of identifying and delivering change
* Strong knowledge of health and safety, data protection, and assurance models
* Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams with credibility and inspiration
* Outstanding interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
* A relevant degree or professional qualifications in health and safety, governance, data protection or similar
About Great Places Housing Group
At Great Places Housing Group, our vision is clear: great homes, great communities, great people. As a modern, forward-looking, profit-for-purpose organisation, we’re driven by a strong social mission, balanced with commercial discipline to ensure long-term sustainability. We take pride in being a values-led organisation with a strong social purpose at the heart of everything we do. We provide quality homes, support thriving communities, and work in a way that is commercially responsible and socially aware.
This is a senior leadership role with real influence. You’ll be joining at a time when assurance, governance and accountability are more important than ever in the housing sector. As Director of Assurance, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we operate and make decisions ensuring we are resilient, compliant and well-prepared for the future. This is a role for someone who wants to make a lasting impact in a dynamic organisation that balances strong governance, a clear social mission and an appetite for improvement.
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